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At 14:30 on Nov. 25, 1986, members of the '''Yangtze River Exploration Team''' landed on [[Hengsha Island]] at the estuary of the [[Yangtze River]] amid strong winds, completing their five-month drift successfully.

As the longest river in [[China]], the Yangtze River is one of the challenges explorers routinely aim to conquer. [[Rao Maoshu]] set off adrift on the river by himself in June 1985, but he later died in an accident. In October 1985, a drift team consisting of 54 people was set up in [[Sichuan]] province. The members included drifting experts, scientists, journalists and security guards. Fifteen of them were main drifters, with an average age of 25.

On June 3, 1986, the team departed from [[Chengdu]], Sichuan, and headed for the source of the Yangtze River: [[Tuotuo River]], which is located north of [[Lhasa]]. Their expedition started on June 16, 1986, during which they collected more than 1,000 hydrological and geological specimens and shot more than 3,000 photos. In the water area of [[Jinsha River]], they collected records on landslides and mud-rock flows.

The team conquered 250 dangerous shoals and finished 16 scientific programs on ecological protection and utilization in the upper area of the Yangtze River. Five of the members, [[Kong Zhimin]], [[Wang Jianjun]], [[Wang Zhen]], [[Yang Qianming]] and [[Wan Ming]], died during the exploration.
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