When Zhao Deli was young, his idol was the Monkey King, a character from the Chinese classic A Journey to the West who was able to conjure up a cloud with a somersault and stand on it to fly above everyone else.
Inspired by his childhood memories of watching a cartoon version of the legend, the self-taught engineer has now developed his own prototype “flying scooter”.
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