Beijing A four-year-old Chinese boy is planning to swim 350 kilometres (220 miles) along the Yangtze River to win a place in the Guinness Book of Records, Xinhua reported Monday. Wang Dengwa, from the northeastern city of Dalian, is planning to start the journey in late June in the central city of Nanjing with the help of his father. He will swim downstream to the metropolis of Shanghai. My boy can swim over 1,000 metres without a stop a day, father Wang Chuan told the news agency.

(AFP)