Fan Haowei, a graduate from Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu in southwestern China’s Sichuan province, spent a year taking over 20,000 aerial photographs of the country. He then produced a 6-minute video clip, “Image of China,” which has since gone viral, Thecover.cn reported on August 2.

The graduate, using an unmanned aerial vehicle, photography equipment and a laptop all weighing over 20 kilograms, since August 2016 travelled more than 10,000 kilometers to 20 Chinese cities, including Chengdu, Dali, Guangzhou, Chongqing, Wuhan and Changsha.

Lots of beautiful sceneries in China including Erhai Lake, Dali, night view of Hongya Cave in Chongqing, Three Gorges Dam of Yichang and the Giant Buddha of Leshan, can be seen in the video clip, all displaying the breathtaking landscapes of the country.

“Every second of the video clip has my painstaking effort, which will be valuable memory in my life,” said Fan. He plans to produce more videos in two or three years, though he has already started his career.