The preliminary of the first wing-suit flying world championship has been finished with the marvelous performance of all the sixteen jumpers on October 17, 2012. But who are the Top 8 contestants and what is each one’s flying time? Please follow the list!Top 8: Michael SwansonFlying Time: 25.477 secondsTop 7: Jhonathan FlorezFlying Time: 25.350 secondsTop 6: Jon DevoreFlying Time: 25.252 secondsTop 5: Anthony UragalloFlying Time: 25.110 secondsTop 4: Jeffery AdamFlying Time: 25.003 secondsTop 3: James BooleFlying Time: 23.921 secondsTop 2: Espen FadnesFlying Time: 23.439 secondsTop 1: Julian BoulleFlying Time: 23.100 secondsTranslated by Vincent Chou

News 2012-10-18 15:45 View：1522

Zhangjiajie with unique landscape scenery and convenient traffic, became the the most ideal self-driving tourist destination. In this year’s golden weeks, motorists that came into zhangjiajie national forest park reached 13850 vehicles,which increased by 71.2% as compared. The arrival of self-drivig tourists, forest park got a large growth in income. Among them, the number of tickets accounted for 95770, representing a year-on-year increase of 41.7%; Realized tickets income was 19.564 million yuan, disposable income rose to 4.13 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 40.8%.Outstanding service work did not let the forest park stop. The golden week was over, park immediately to carry out the “look back” activities, making a earnest analysis of the golden week tourist reception work, suming up experience, searching for insufficiency. Forest park put forward the new request: they would concentrate on building the ecological parking lot of LuoGu tower, tourist service base of YuanGuJie and so on. Thus further improving the reception ability and service quality of core scenic area. For forest park, the next golden week, will be more exciting.Translated by Sophia

News 2012-10-17 15:44 View：2333

The opening ceremony of the 15 th International Symposium on River and Lake Environments.The 15th International Symposium on River and Lake Environments ( ISRLE) was held in Cili County, Zhangjiajie City on October 16, 2012. 260 scholars and experts from 11 countries and regions around the world attended the two-day conference. Themed with limnological transformation, the symposium aims to seek effective ways to tackle crises of water ecosystemen vironment. Lectures on different topics are organized during the conference such as floodplain management & environmental water, aquatic plants & zoobenthos and micro organisms. The conference offers a golden opportunity to enhance exchange between Chinese hydrobiologists and overseas experts and promotes the application of limnological knowledge in China's inland water management. Translator: Guo YanSource: Hunan Official Web Portal 

News 2012-10-17 00:22 View：1043

During the golden week, national forest park was full of visitors. Self-driving became a popular trend, setting a new records. Administration office of LuoGu tower in Zhangjiajie national forest park made a unified plan according to tourism situation this year. Making a scientific and reasonable distribution, and adding a temporary parking lot, which let the original two parking lot increase to 12 parking lots, parking places also from originally 1000 increase to more than 2000. All of these, Easing the difficulty about driving, parking and serving of self-driving tourists , and achieving great success.It was reported, this year′s golden week, self-driving tourism sources of zhangjiajie national forest park mainly were from chongqing, hubei, henan and hunan province.Translated by Sophia

News 2012-10-16 15:42 View：1023

Lüdou, one of the writers from Wulingyuan Restrict Writers’ Association, and Zhima, cooperated and wrote a book named Go Traveling with the One which was published by Jiangsu People’s Publishing House. This is the first anthology concerning traveling outdoors in the publishing industry of Hunan Province.This anthology consists of 35 essays, such as Encamping on Tianzi Mountain on a Snowing Night, and Family’s Travel to Phoenix Town (Fenghuang), which were written during their family travel in recent three years. The book received hearty recommendation from a tremendous number of experienced domestic backpackers and tourism journalists as soon as it was available in bookstores. Xiaopeng, the author of Backpacking for Ten Years, praised:” This family’s travel combines both freedom and kinship, which is the supremacy of tour.”Translated by Vincent Chou

News 2012-10-16 15:40 View：1197

The first wing-suit flying World Championship in Zhangjiajie was postponed because the weather condition was not safe to undertake flying and would not be turn fine in three days. On October 14, 2012, the Wing-Suit Flying World Championship Committee announced that the championship will be taken on October 17 and 18 in Tianmen Mountain, Zhangjiajie.Translated by Vincent Chou

News 2012-10-15 15:41 View：1911

Recently, Central Bureau ratified Bangkok Airline Company to add Zhangjiajie airport in their “CCAR-129 Operation Specification”, allowing operating unscheduled flights to Zhangjiajie in Thailand. Up to now, Zhangjiajie airport increased another international airline company.Since the year before last, Zhangjiajie airport had managed to pass the national acceptance coming from air port in order to expand foreign planes, and officially opened to foreign airplanes. By means of coordinating with local government, Zhangjiajie airport gained the approving of Central Bureau, so that Orient Thai Airlines, Korean Yisida Airlines, Asiana Airlines and other foreign airline companies can operate in Zhangjiajie airport. What’s more, Zhangjiajie to Hong Kong and to Macao airline were opened, which improved the air traffic bottleneck existing in Zhangjiajie international airline, promoting the internationalization of Zhangjiajie tourism and also further push this high-quality tourism brand to the whole world.Translated by Becky

News 2012-10-15 15:39 View：1028

The paintings and calligraphy exhibition named “the Fragrance of Ink” undertook in Wulingyuan library as well as Wulingyuan Cultural Center on October 12, 2012.Over 200 calligraphy and painting works were presented to the public among which there were 47 calligraphy works, 10 sketches, 7 oil paintings, 4 gouaches, 10 sandstone paintings and over 130 photographs. The calligraphy styles range from the regular script, the official script of Han Dynasty, the running hand(the cursive hand), the cursive script as well as the seal character of Qin Dynasty while the forms from vertical and horizontal scrolls, Doufang( a piece of paper with the size of one foot square) and sectors (paper in the shape of sector). Some of the works are from experts while other from tyros.Translated by Vincent Chou

News 2012-10-15 15:37 View：1096