Soon, visitors will have the chance to experience the maglev train once they get out of the west train station in Zhangjiajie. This maglev train will have a max traveling speed of about 120 kilometers per hour, and can take 402 passengers at one time. When it starts to operate in the near future, a visitor is allowed to get Wulingyuan directly in 12 minutes, which will save much more time, comparing with the initial one-hour range of drive by bus in the same line.In April, 2011, Zhangjiajie has already witnessed this exciting moment when Zhangjiajie government signed a cooperation intention document with CSR Corporation Limited in Changsha. They planned to build the first Chinese medium-low speed maglev train operating line in Zhangjiajie. When completed, this line will shoulder visitors’ transportation from the center of Zhangjiajie Cityto Wulingyuan core scenic spot.Translated by Becky

News 2012-12-16 22:57 View：1112

Altogether 5,467 entry-exit flights (ships) had been checked in Hunan with 800,575 passengers in total by December 13, 2012, setting a new record again.Hunan Border Defense Contingent innovates the service mode, improves the supporting services, and optimizes the customs clearance efficiency to bring the demonstration effect of Changsha Border Inspection Station into a full play. It cooperates with the customs, the inspection and quarantine bureaus, the safety Inspection and the international chheck-in units to conduct the "Comfortable and Convenient Project" to provide one-stop service. It also organizes the Lei Feng female service team of border inspection and the border inspection mobile workstation, provides "border inspection consulting service" for foreign-related enterprises, holds regular symposiums for airlines and travel agencies, launches the law popularizing service, standardizes the operation and simplifies customs procedures to realize the convenient customs clearance with high-efficiency, provides the loving service for the elderly, infirm, sick, disabled and pregnant, and offers courteous reception and convenience for major and special events in Hunan.Translator: Zhang ShuSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

News 2012-12-16 22:28 View：1084

On 12th Dec. Afternoon, a meeting on tourism gourmet festival during 2012 Chinese New Year was convoked by ZJJ Tourism Bureau. Attendants were representatives from some ZJJ hotels, ZJJ tourism and cuisine association.In the meeting, manuals of “Advices on Tourism Gourmet Festival in 2013 Spring Festival” were handed out by ZJJ Tourism Bureau and detailed issues on this activity were discussed over the meeting.The activity is known as a large-scale commercial celebration for boosting cultural tourism whose theme is cultural tourism of gourmet. It is to start from December 15, 2012 to March 15, 2013, which will last for 3 months. This activity will create an atmosphere of joyous, peace and happiness and will definitely absorb more tourist to ZJJ in winter.Previous Food Festival in ZJJBy Brenda

News 2012-12-15 22:54 View：1719

Recently the evaluation committee of the national scenic spots quality level has declared through the No. 201212 file that the Helong Memorial at Sangzhi County already reached a 4A level in scenic spots quality requirements and became a national 4A level scenic spot. This honor is a further national brand of Helong Memorial followed by the reputation known as the National Relic Protection Unit, the Demonstration Base of National Patriotism Education, the Demonstration Base of Military Education, one of the thirty delicate Red Tour Lines and one of the one hundred classic Red Scenic Spots.ZJJ Helong Memorial is located in Helong General’s hometown, Hongjia Guan Village of Sangzhi County. Nowadays this memorial has been constructing the scenic spot and enhancing the tourism environment sharply through perfecting tourism transportation, completing the viewing facilities, strengthening tourists’ safe, enhancing cleaning management, providing post office service and improving shopping in tour. Simultaneously this memorial also actively conducted the evolution resources development and invited experts in Chinese army’s history and the history of Chinese Communist Party to explore and refine the cultural relic here so as to make a full use of every single relic. Moreover old red army men and the offspring of the second red army men were interviewed to find historical details therefore to promote the legendry color of the relic and the sites and to make noticeable the attraction and power of amazing tourists.Translated by Vincent Chou

News 2012-12-15 22:53 View：1314

In the afternoon of 12 December, 2012, Zhangjiajie Tourism Bureau held a conference for the activity of the 2013 Spring-Festival Tourism Gourmet Festival. And the managers of some of the bars here and the representatives from Zhangjiajie Tourist Association and Cuisine Association attended this conference.Accordingly, this festival, hosted by Zhangjiajie Municipal People’s Government, is a big celebration on culture, tour and commerce, and has the theme of Zhangjiajie Foods and Culture Tour. This activity will start on 15 December, 2012, and will last for three months to 15 March, 2013. This activity is held to strengthen the attraction of winter-season travel here, to cultivate a happy, auspicious, pleasing, and harmonious atmosphere for the spring festival tour so as to motivate the vitality of winter tour, and to boom the reputation of Zhangjiajie foods brands, and therefore to promote the reputation and influence of tour in Zhangjiajie.Translated by Vincent Chou

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"Green always greets my eyes wherever I go, which is quite similar in Belgium. I've visited Hunan much more frequently than other provinces in China." Patrick Nijs, the Belgian ambassador to China, expressed his favorable impression on Hunan. Mr. Patrick Nijs is somewhat an old China hand, for he was the Belgian general consul in Shanghai and Hong Kong and married a Chinese woman. Nijs opined that Hunan and Belgium share great potential for cooperation, for Belgium has advantage in such industries as steel, machinery, non-ferrous metals and environmental protection. Additionally, its environmental technologies stay at the world advanced level, including energy conservation and environmental protection technology in construction and harmless disposal technology of wastes. To build a resource-conserving and environment-friendly society, Hunan can work with Belgium in various aspects. Mr. Patrick Nijs expected to promote the cooperation between Belgium and Hunan in clean energy and environment protection industry via the "Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and Sustainable Development International Cooperation Forum" held in Changsha. Patrick NijsTranslator: Wu LirongSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

News 2012-12-15 22:26 View：1276

It is announced at the 2012 Seminar on Offshore Mineral Resources (Hunan) on December 14 that Hunan Weijin Investment Group will start a gold ore project in North Korea, making it the first Hunan enterprise to invest in North Korea. "North Korea is backward in infrastructure construction, so we can fulfill the requirements of mineral resources exploitation by offering technology and management support to the country's key projects like highways and hotels", said President of Hunan Weijin Investment Group Xia Juhua. He added that initially pumping 20 million US dollars into the gold ore project in North Korea, he is looking for collaborators to jointly exploit mineral resources like gold and rare earth at the seminar. According to Xia, the mineral right is within Unsan County of North Pyongan Province, and the estimated gold reserve volume is above 50 tons. To earn the right, the group has invested in the construction of Korea's first five-star hotel, which, with a planned height of 30 storeys, is expected to be completed in 2013.Translator: Liu FenSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

News 2012-12-15 22:24 View：1479

On December 7th, hunan bureau of commodity price in its official website published a notice, said: the tickets price of zhangjiajie huanglong hole, baofeng lake will have a change in the middle of March, 2013.The tickets price of the huanglong hole will adjust 80 yuan/pax to 100 yuan/pax, BaoFeng lake from 74 yuan/pax to 96 yuan/pax.ZJJ Huanglong hole, Baofeng lake are famous scenic spots in zhangjiajie, located in the world natural heritage wulingyuan scenic spot, near the eastern end of wulingyuan scenic spot core. Huanglong hole is known as the world cave “all-around champion,” China’s most beautiful tourist cave, 2011 “famous Chinese trademark”; Baofeng lake is known as “human jade pool” , awarded the “China top ten charm tourism leisure lakes” .Translated by Sophia

News 2012-12-14 13:45 View：2049