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He later drove with several close friends to Qinghai province.

"We'd always wanted to go to a vast space, and Qinghai is a very good choice with beautiful views," he says.

He then traveled to Southeast Asia alone, fulfilling his dream to explore abroad.

"My biggest impression was that time flies really fast. The freshness of being on the road will finally turn into a kind of unwillingness to part," he says.

Beijinger Han Bingbin says that the class had a good time on its graduation trip eight years ago, when they drove from Nanjing to the grand canyon in Zhejiang.

"The trip gave us a unique chance to know one another. We'd grown closer by the trip's end. But it seemed a little bit late because we were going to say goodbye," he says.

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