Want China Times
Date: 2015-05-26
By: CNA and Staff Reporter

Business administration students from four Taiwanese colleges completed a four-day

The students walk in the Moheyanqi Gobi, Dunhuang, Gansu province, May 22. (File photo/Xinhua)

journey on foot through a desert in western China on Monday, with participants from National Taiwan University (NTU) winning an award for sportsmanship.

Students enrolled in MBA programs at NTU, National Chengchi University, Tunghai University and National Sun Yat-sen University were honored on Monday for completing the 112-kilometer walk through the Moheyanqi Gobi, a desert on the border of Gansu province and Xinjiang.

They traversed a variety of terrains that averaged altitudes of 1,500 meters above sea level and had to weather temperature swings of up to 40 degrees Celsius between day and night.     [FULL  STORY]