“China Road” sees Rob Gifford travel deep into the heart of Modern China. Running 3,000 miles from the east-coast boomtown of Shanghai to the border of Kazakhstan in the north-west, Route 312 - China’s ‘Route 66’ - is a road that Rob Gifford has always wanted to travel.Gifford’s journey and his desire to get to the heart of this country make ‘China Road’ an outstanding and funny travel narrative; part pilgrimage, part reportage, this illuminates not only a country on the move, but one coming increasingly under the global spotlight.