According to Hunan Border Defense Contingent on January 1, 2013, more than 5,300 entry-exit flights with over 780,000 passengers had been checked through at the Changsha Frontier Inspection Station as of 24:00 on December 31, 2012. The number of passengers had risen by 14%, setting a new record again.Following the opening of flights to Taipei, Kaohsiung, Taichung, and Hualien, the Changsha-Makung (Penghu) tourist charter flight was launched this year. The commercial and cultural exchanges between Hunan and Taiwan have become increasingly frequent. More than 53,000 domestic residents flied to Taiwan from Changsha port in 2012, a year-on-year growth of 34%. Among the arrivals, the number of South Korean passengers exceeded 134,000, ranking first among the arrivals for seven consecutive years. As the flights from Changsha to Singapore and Bangkok become fixed, tourists from Singapore and Thailand have showed great enthusiasm in visiting Hunan. The arrivals from the two countries have surpassed 8,400 and 6,300, increasing by 230% and 30% respectively year on year.Translator: Lv XuefenSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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Some tourists in Hong Kong happily took pictures of the beautiful snow-covered landscape in Tianzi Mountain of Zhangjiajie Wulingyuan Scenic Area on December 30. The last snow of 2012 made Zhangjiajie look especially enchanting and attracted thousands of tourists from home and abroad to enjoy the snow and take pictures.Translator: Wang RongSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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Home About Hunan Government Business Tourism Service Special Reports Home >>Local News T | T Hunan Embroidery Beautifies Great Hall of the People 2013-01-03Snowy North China, a work of art of Hunan embroidery, was collected by the Administration of the Great Hall of the People and displayed at the west door of the Plenary Meeting Hall of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress(NPC).The work of art is 7.6 meters long and 3.6 meters high, depicting the snow-wrapped charming scenery in north China. It is three times as high as the normal works, making itself the highest Hunan embroidery work. As a new masterpiece, it also fills in the gap of winter scenery depiction in Hunan embroidery.Sixty craftsmen from the Hunan Embroidery Research Institute spent 55,200 working hours on the embroidery. The work costs 15 kilograms of silk embroidery threads of more than 200 colors.Translator: Lv XuefenSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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On 27 December, 2012, the good news that Suoxiyu Town has won the honor of “The Most Charming Town in Hunan Province in 2012”came to Wulingyuan District, Zhangjiajie. Suoxiyu, thanks to this honor, became Zhangjiajie’s first town that has won this valuable and special honor.The specialized news group named “the new page of Hunan governed by law” from Law Weekly launched the selection of the most charming town in Hunan Province under the theme of “Charming Towns in Hunan Governed by Law” which lasted from 16 October to 20 December, 2012. And Suoxiyu Town, Zhangjiajie, stood out from the other Top 20 towns in the selection and won the honor of “the Most Charming Town in Hunan in2012”after experts’ evaluation and the online vote through its optimistic spirit and attitude and its full passion on preparation for the selection and in the preliminary, the semifinal and the final which took it two months or so.Translated by Vincent Chou

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On December 26th, zhangjiajie huangshi village scenic area ushered the first winter snow, all the landscape of the stone mountain looked like a thick layer of white carpet, the branches hung glittering and translucent ice, forming a peculiar rime landscape.With snow,ZJJ Huangshi village scenic spot was especially enchanting, thus attracting a large number of Chinese and foreign tourists. According to the meteorological station forecast, the coming days, zhangjiajie will also appear cool snow.Translated by Sophia

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The weather is cold, with rain and snow, wulingyuan scenic core spot within icing, such as the Tianzi mountain, YuanJiaJie. Although it makes bad effect to the scenic transportation, the carved beauty attracts visitors around in. To ensure tourist safety, wulingyuan scenic tourism, traffic police, office, and other units to take preventive measures to deal with it.In Tianzi mountain cableway station, outbound channel with all unslippery carpet, setting up a mark “road is icy, pay attention to safety” and so on. In the dragon ladder, WuLingYuan tourism administration law enforcement personnel with patience to do propaganda guidance and interpretation work, reminding guests to pay attention to low temperature weather. At the same time, requiring the group tour guide arrange tour line, preventing tourists hurt, frostbite, etc.From WuLingYuan tourism department, the low temperature and cold weather, in addition to affect the mountain scenic area traffic, other various hospitality services were normal and orderly, Tianzi mountain cableway, the dragon ladder “traffic corridor” were unblocked, without any complaint report.Translated by Sophia

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December 25th to 26th, the world natural heritage wulingyuan welcomed the “Christmas snow”. The core scenic, such as Tianzi mountain, YuanJiaJie, Huangshi village, and other attractions, were in continuous silver apperance. Enveloped in layers of cloud and mist, they seemed to be more forceful and magical, visitors from around the world to enjoy the snow of zhangjiajie scenic spots, thus to meet the arrival of the New Year.On the morning of 26th, in Tianzi mountain, with a 4 cm thick underground of snow, branches, flowers and plants all put on the snow clothes, some still were covered with ice. In the west forest viewing deck, through the snow fog, the peak forest looked like ice sculptures.In the Baofeng lake scenic spot, “plunging three thousand feet”, the waterfall with snow presented another amorous feelings, attracting a steady stream of tourists. It was understood that the snow was the first snow of Baofeng lake. Taking a boat to enjoy the scene of snow was a special experience to guests. According to statistics, by the 10 o′clock of 26th, the visitors who entered baofeng lake were over 1300 people.Translated by Sophia

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Known from the building department website, the first batch of Chinese traditional villages was released. Fortunately, Shoubadong village and Hangsha village (Baojing County) are on the list.Recently, building department and many other departments issued a document jointly, in order to publicize the directory list of the first batch of Chinese traditional villages. Overall, this directory includes 648 villages throughoutChina, 30 Hunan villages involved. Among all, relying on its 17 seats, Western Hunan topped this list, almost accounting for a half of the entire quota.Traditional village mainly refers to those formed early, possessed abundant natural resources, show great historical, cultural, scientific, art, social and economic values, and should by protected. Meanwhile, the village is required to go along with at least one of the following conditions: “intact traditional architecture”, “traditional features on site selection and patterns”,” live transmission of intangible cultural heritage”.Translated by Becky

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