It will take Bates 64 days to cover a distance of 1,500 kilometers from Beijing to Hangzhou, the capital city of east China's Zhejiang province.

 

Hangzhou is also the hometown of Bates' wife Xuelin, Chairman of a charity called The Walk for Peace Foundation.

 

Bates plans to visit historical sites of the War of the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression¹ to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of WWII.

 

"For the past four years, I have been doing walks in different parts of the world. And I have walked through 18 countries so far. So Walking is the way I express my desire to build a peaceful and better world. "

 

Between 2011 and 2012, Bates embarked² on a 'Walk for Truce³' from Olympia in Greece to London to raise awareness⁴ of the Olympic truce. He walked through 15 European countries, covering a distance of 4,800 kilometers.

 

In 2013, Bates walked 830 kilometers from London to Derry, Northern Ireland to raise funds for children in Syria.

 

Last year he completed a 1,000 kilometer walk between the United Kingdom and Germany to mark the 100th anniversary of WWI.

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