In the morning of October 26, 2012, Mr. Wang Menglin, a senior painter who had been in Zhangjiajie for 8 times, could not help opening his sketch notebook and drawing the landscape on seeing the Bao Feng Lake in Wulingyuan Resort.Companying with Mr. Wang, there were another seven painters including Ms. Wang Jinxing, the former vice chairman of Hunan Artists Association, who had recommended Mr. Wu Guanzhong to come here and paint. They are all members of Hunan Research Institution of Culture and History and landscape painters as well, and they all had been here for sightseeing or painting for many a time. This time they felt, as the same, very close to the resorts which were much crowded, and made high praises to the achievements managed by Zhangjiajie tourism industry. They wished to come here as many times as possible to paint before they lose the opportunity everlastingly.It was said that all the paintings these eight painters have managed this week about scenery spots such as Tian Zi Mountain, Farmland Hanging in the Sky, Huang Long Cave, Water around Four Doors, etc. would be presented in Zhangjiajie Landscape Paintings Exhibition in ChangshaTranslated by Vincent Chou

News 2012-10-27 16:17 View：1180

On October 20, 2012, the Theory of Literature and Arts Institution of Hunan Province held an inaugural meeting in which Mr. Zhao Yanqiu, the dean of the College of Arts of Hunan Normal University, was elected the chairman.The scholars present in the inaugural meeting conducted four seminars focusing on four different topics among which two are known as “the basic situation of researches on literature, arts and aesthetics” and “the interdisciplinarity between the research of literature and arts and that of aesthetics”. The seminars described the new achievements of the researches on literature, arts and aesthetics in Hunan province.Translated by Vincent Chou

News 2012-10-26 16:15 View：1113

Suoxiyu will be spent over the next five years, to develop ecological tourism, characteristic industry, promoting the internationalization of tourism products, to create “wulingyuan international tourism leisure area”.As we have learned, Suoxiyu tujia town will take three steps to promote the construction of wulingyuan international tourism leisure area. Firstly, skillful planning. According to a high starting point, high standard, high level principle, to promote tourism leisure town construction process. Secondly, the big construction. Striving in five years, regarding SuoDong new project development as the turning point, increasing the project construction, to achieve garden, leisure tourism town goal. Thus striving to realize comprehensive tourism income at an average rate of 5%, by the end of 2017 reach 17.26 million yuan. Tthirdly, strict management. Strengthening social supervision and participation, thus realizing new breakthrough of controlling violations. Strengthening the quality promotion of city management team, making comprehensive thorough improvement on city, the scenic area and the surrounding environment. Thus actively creating a mass livable, comfortable environment.Translated by Sophia

News 2012-10-25 16:14 View：1047

China’s first focus on the theme of national forest park to dream around zhangjiajie is currently underway in the shooting. “Chinese emperor” LiuMu become a farm labor in zhangjiajie.As we have learned, 《Dream around Zhangjiajie》is based on the development of barren hills, and protect the ecological forest as the background, reproducing the original zhangjiajie forest head LiuKaiLin and an initial group of pioneers with selfless dedication and hard work, bearing the responsibility of the moving and praise-worthy story. It is understood that the film reflected the LiuMu who deductived LinZiRan, educated and returned to city, for the love to the zhangjiajie, pulling the investment construction to zhangjiajie scenic spot, thus leading an unknown history of changing barren hills to be green in zhangjiajie tourism development of early period .It is reported, 《Dream around Zhangjiajie》is also a tribute in 30 anniversary of zhangjiajie scenic area, which expected to release next National Day.Translated by Sophia

News 2012-10-25 16:13 View：915

On October 24, Changsha Mayor Zhang Jianfei met with a delegation led by Dean Fortin, mayor of Victoria, Canada. Last December, a delegation of Changsha Municipal People's Government signed with Dean Fortin an agreement on establishing friendly cooperation cities relationship. So far, the two cities have developed various types of cooperation in such fields as education, tourism, economy and trade. For instance, Mingde Middle School and Victoria have collaboratively developed the "Study Development Channel" project, which provides opportunities for students at Mingde Middle School to study and develop in Canada.Mayor Zhang said, Victoria's experience in fields like industry, education and environment protection is worth learning by Changsha. He hoped that Victoria can promote mutual exchanges and cooperation in these fields. Dean Fortin remarked that Victoria, an increasingly growing city in economy, is gradually receiving more overseas Chinese. He also expressed his hope that the two sides have much closer cooperation in sectors including education, economy and tourism, so as to achieve a win-win situation. Translator: Hao JingruSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

News 2012-10-25 00:28 View：1240

On October 18, 2012, the group of journalists of Trans-Century Cross-China Environmental Protection Tour drove to Wen Zhuang Village in Wulingyuan Resort, only were impressed by the landscape of wild environment, clean roads, newly-built buildings, and smiling faces. When they looked through the windows, they found that that was an area of giant vegetable greenhouses, and there was at least one car in front of every building. This is an eco-friendly garden in Zhangjiajie.There is a secret buried in those gardens, i.e. sewage disposal system for scattered peasant households. The system guides waste water from bathroom, domestic sewage, and rainwater into three different impounding reservoirs in which water will receive anaerobic treatment. After that, water basically meets the emission standards and then flows into the garden. The water after treatment even can be used as drinking water for livestock. The system can not only manage the clean emission and reuse of sewage but also protect the ground water resource completely.Translated by Vincent Chou

News 2012-10-24 16:09 View：1661

Hunan will start a special campaign this year to preserve and develop hundreds of ancient villages and thousands of ancient civilian dwellings across the province. The move is expected to benefit tens of thousands of households and better utilize the cultural and tourism value of these resources, so as to realize sustainable development. Currently, Hunan boasts a total of 9,146 ancient dwellings, with an overall floorage of 12.5 million square meters. Mainly located in south and west Hunan, the buildings are an epitome of high cultural relic and aesthetic value.The above photo shows the landscape of Yangshan Village, one of China's top ten allied ancient villages situated in Guiyang County, Chenzhou City, Hunan Province. The village, dating back to the Hongzhi period of Ming Dynasty, contains over 60 historic buildings. Translator: Liu FenSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

News 2012-10-24 00:27 View：1109

This afternoon the honorable guests of the 12th Cross-Strait Academic Seminar visited Huang Long Cave, Wulingyuan Resort, Zhangjiajie. Mr. Hao Bin, the vice principal of Beijing University, the routine vice director of the Alumni Association of Beijing University, gave a high praise to the artistic design of “Tianyuan Muge” ecological square. More over, Mr. Zeng Zhengxu, the director of Architecture Art Association of Tainan National University of the Arts, was very interested in the landscape designing of this square and believed that this square is well-structured and fully presents to the public the indigenous folk culture as well as the beautiful view of local countryside.“The design and collocation of the landscape is pretty natural; the farmhouses, ducks and vegetable garden all look real, which gives me a feeling of touching the nature.” Zeng said, “Besides, the whole square is uniquely featured with the natural cast scenery inside the cave and the picture of farming outside it, from which flows a different kind of beauty!”Translated by Vincent Chou

News 2012-10-23 16:03 View：1013