December 14th, it is twentieth anniversary of wulingyuan scenic spot which listed in the world heritage list. Twenty years, the world heritage, a “golden signboard” promoted the rapid tourism development.Listed in the list of world heritage for twenty years, wulingyuan actively implemented the world cultural and natural heritage convention, and invested billions of capital to increase the protection of the scenic spot precious natural resources, the ecological environment construction. It opened up 300 spots, built high standard tourism channel more than 300 kilometers, star hotel more than 30, nearly 30000 copies of tourism reception beds. And with the international advanced level of tourism infrastructure, such as, tianzi mountain cableway, huangshi village cableway, sightseeing elevator, huanglong hole ecological plaza, promoting the use of the conservation and utilization of coordinated development.Meanwhile, wulingyuan promulgated China’s first heritage protection of special laws and regulations, the hunan wulingyuan world natural heritage protection regulations. It gained the world geological park, China’s first 5 a-class tourist scenic spot, the national civilized scenic area and the international and domestic tourism crown, with an increasing popularity and a good reputation degree.Translated by Sophia

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In ZJJ, an old giant salamander is expected to become “the world’s largest Chinese giant salamander”. The giant salamander, called “BenBen”, is nearly 130 years old, with 2 meters body length.2012 giant salamander protection and development BBS held at 13th. The guardian of “BenBen”, zhangjiajie gold giant salamander biological engineering corporation announced that it would declare for the world guinness record.Giant salamander is the world’s largest existing individual amphibians, because of its childish sound, commonly known as the “giant salamander,” living on earth for three hundred and fifty million years. For decades, with change of living environment , the world giant salamander drop quickly. At present, biological “living fossil” mainly originate in zhangjiajie, which has been treated as a protected animals by the world environmental organization, the Chinese government will protect it as a kind of animal.Translated by Sophia

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On 13th December, 2012, the ceremony of signing the low-speed maglev train transportation program as well as the JVA(joint invest agreement) of Zhangjiajie Magnetic Levitation Transportation Co. Ltd. was held. Mr. Hujun Qiang, the Zhangjiajie Municipal Party Secretary, and Mr. Zhou Qinghe, the CEO and the general manager of Nan Che Zhu Zhou Electrical Locomotive Co. Ltd., and Mr. Liu Yuegao, a member of the Municipal Standing Committee and the vice Mayor of Zhangjiajie City, Mr. Luo Jinming, the vice director of the Standing Committee of Municipal People’s Congress, and Mr. Liu Dexiang, the vice president of the MPCC (Municipal People’s Consultative Conference), attended the ceremony.Accordingly the starting point of the maglev train line is planned to be the West Railway Station of Zhangjiajie while the end the symbolic gate of Wulingyuan Scenic Spot. The whole line, 24 kilometers in length, has an investment of 500 million yuan. This line will take the transportation from the center of Zhangjiajie to the core scenic spot of Wulinguan Resort after construction as a model combining the low-speed maglev transportation and the regional natural resources. All of this is a practical step that the first low-speed maglev train line in China will be successfully set in Zhangjiajie with a mile-stone-like significance.Translated by Vincent Chou

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The work conference on application of world cultural heritage of Hunan Province was held in Changsha on the morning of December 17. Laosi Town, regional defense system in Fenghuang and villages of the Dong people were included in the World Cultural Heritage Tentative List. At the meeting, the local governments of the three cultural relics were conferred the plates by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage (SACH). Meanwhile, they submitted target responsibility documents to Hunan Provincial People's Government and proposed measures to protect, regulate and manage these cultural relics, which laid a solid foundation for applying for World Cultural Heritage. Located in Sicheng Village of Lingxi Town in Yongshun County, Laosi Town is an ancient town governed by hereditary headmen of the Tujia ethnic group in west Hunan for over 800 years. Laosi Town, the most typical ancient cultural relic in minority nationality regions of southern China, offers precious materials for the study on the history of Tujia nationality, Chinese Tusi System (a special political system that China's ancient feudal dynasties applied to rule people in the ethnic group regions by granting hereditary titles to local leaders) and system of regional ethnic autonomy. Located in the hinterland of Wuling Mountains and known as the most beautiful county in China, Fenghuang County is an area mainly inhabited by the Miao ethnic group. Composed of Fenghuang ancient town, Chinese southern great wall and Huangsiqiao ancient town, the defense system in Fenghuang is one of the largest, best preserved and the most full-featured military sites in Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) and Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) in southern China. Translator: Xiao JuanSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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On December 16th, zhangjiajie in order to celebrate the the breakthrough of jingguang high rail-way, launching a free trip “cake” : everyone takes jingguang high rail-way to visit zhangjiajie in 26th, they can enjoy zhangjiajie a scenic spot and a free hotel reception.Free reception spot is zhangjiajie grand canyon, the national 4A level scenic spot, near the world natural heritage wulingyuan huanglong hole. In 2013, it proposed to build the world’s longest glass bridge, now ticket price is 118 yuan/person. The scenic area officials says, December 26th, the opening day of jingguang high rail-way is Mao zedong’s 119th birthday, being worth of the whole country to celebrate. In 26th to 28th, the guests who taking jingguang high rail-way to zhangjiajie, just by high rail-way ticket and identity card freely into the grand canyon scenic spot.Free reception hotel is GuanShanYue hotel, located in the wulingyuan Xibu street. It is the first zhangjiajie romantic resort hotel, at the same time, receiving 34 couple lovers.The personage inside the tourism said that as the world’s longest mileage operation high iron – jingguang high iron was in full operation, the scenic spot will usher in a new development opportunity, hunan zhangjiajie tourism will formally enter into “high iron” era.Translated by Sophia

News 2012-12-17 22:59 View：1327

In the morning of 12th December, 2012, the coldness of the severe winter surrendered to the passion of all the teachers and students from Zhangjiajie College of Jishou University. The celebration of the establishment of the municipal library association as well as the opening ceremony of Zhangjiajie College Library was officially undertaking on the square in font of the library.The establishment of the municipal library association is a pleasing thing for Zhangjiajie city’s cultural construction, and also has important significance for building the public cultural service system, promoting the city-wide reading, motivating the innovation and heritage of knowledge, boosting the city dwellers’ quality and establishing a model of insist-on-learning society. Moreover the establishment of the library also started to bring beauty to the spiritual and cultural construction for all the college students here and even the local residents.Translated by Vincent Chou

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On December 12th, 2012 international China media awards was judged by the overseas Chinese media cooperation organization. Zhangjiajie, with its magic charm of natural scenery, profound cultural foundation, the world famous tourist destination , won the award of “Top Ten Livable Place in China”.Other 9 places which got the award of “China top ten livable” are hangzhou, Qingdao, chengdu, dalian, Dali, suzhou, xiamen, lijiang, guangzhou. Zhangjiajie in the eighth of the ten best livable placesTranslated by Sophia

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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：1260