China's longest high-speed railway, starting from Beijing and ending at Shenzhen, will open to traffic at the end of 2012, cutting the single-way time between the two cities by fifteen hours to around nine hours. Once the railway is in operation, the travel time between Changsha and Beijing is expected to be just 6 hours, compared to 13 hours and 17 minutes by the fastest normal-speed train Z18. Translator: Liu Fen Source: Hunan Official Web Portal

News 2012-08-07 12:07 View：1115

July 27, at about five in the afternoon,a rainbow arises over Wulingyuan scenic spot of the world natural heritage Zhangjiajie Be specific,it appears over the “Celestial beauty scattering flowers”spot.With the decoration of baby-blue sky,white clouds and verdant mountains ,the rainbow looks more charming and magnificent.Tourists present are deeply absorbed in the fairyland.From a scientific view ,a rainbow is an optical and meteorological phenomenon that causes a spectrum of light to appear in the sky when the sun shines on to droplets of moisture in the Earth’s atmosphere. The colours visible in the rainbow are red ,orange ,yellow ,green, blue ,indigo ,violet.Nowadays,due to the scorching weather,monkeyrain is a frenquecy in Zhangjiajie in a short time,which contributes to lower the heat as well as creates favorable conditions for a rainbow .By Aileen

News 2012-08-06 23:23 View：1397

A list of 13 most remarkable natural wonders in East Asia was released on Sina.com.cn, China's popular web portal, on August 3. Wulingyuan Scenic Area in Zhangjiajie topped the list owning to its three thousand magic pillars that are resistant to gravity effects, which provided inspiration for the surrealist film Avatar. The unique landscape of Zhangjiajie was named by international experts as "Zhangjiajie Landform" in November, 2010.  Tourists swarm to Zhangjiajie Translator: Chen BingSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

News 2012-08-06 22:42 View：1830

In order to eascap the hot weather,The national forest park of ZJJ welcoming more and more tourists. In August 1st, the reporter came to the national forest park, seeing a stream of visitors flocked into the golden core scenic spot, such as HuangShi village and JinBian river. According to uncompleted counts, from June 1st to July 31th, the number of visitors who entered the national forest park reached more than 330000, presenting a blowout trend.The national forest park is known as the feature of ” three thousand peaks, eight hundred water”. Here are more than three thousand intricate mountains with the characteristic of humanbeings. Thus wining an amazing appriciation.Streams, spring, waterfalls are spreading around the mountains. Dense woods, flowers and plants are throughout the land. The whole park is like a huge landscape painting. And the sections of the original forest consists of the “super oxygen bar” makes visitors enjoy the pure air in the hot sun.Translated by Sophia 

News 2012-08-05 23:02 View：1512

As the temperatures continue to rise, more and more people all over the world tend to list Zhangjiajie as the first choice to be away for the summer holiday. Consequently, all of this contributes to the great popularity of Zhangjiajie National Forest Park. According to incomplete statistics, from June 1st to July 27th, National Forest Park has already attracted about 0.32 million friends both from home and abroad by means of her incomparable nature beauty.From the controller, we learned that the number of new coming tourists everyday hit peak recently. Only in the forenoon of July 27th, new comers reached more than 8000.Zhangjiajie has long been known for its rich in mountains as well as water. Over here, more than 3000 mountains rising straight from the ground show various features such as spirituality. Brooks, spring, waterfall are commonly seen among these mountains. In a word, the whole park is just like a grand landscape painting without too much extra modifications. Moreover, the super oxygen bar, made up of virgin forests, offers a pleasing place for different visitors to relax and have a good time in such a hot weather.Translated by Becky

News 2012-08-04 23:11 View：1460

On August 6th to 9th, World geological park experts, Maria-Luise Frey and Flavia Fernanda De Lima will assess the protection, management, development of ZhangJiaJie world geological park during 2008 and 2012. At the same time, they will delimit gradation according to the assessment, thus aiming to ensure the world geological park develop scientifically and healthily.WuLingYuan scenic spot of ZJJ is famous for the big peak forest spectacle with rare quartz sandstone. In 2004, it got the first chance to attend world geological park. In recent years, people adhere to the principle of “strict protection, unified management, scientific planning, sustainable use”, which strengthening the protection and scientific study of geological remains. As a world geological heritage,it tries to fully reflect the features of system, integrity, nature, beauty, typicality and so on. In 2010,it smoothly through the review at the first assessment.In order to do well in the evaluation work, high attention was paid, the leading institutions and work team, formulated a special work plan, to clarify responsibility to relevant departments. With reasonable arrangement of inspection line, they hope that the protection, development and management work of WuLingYuan will be demonstrated fully, the achievement and benefits which brought to the masses of the people will be on show.Translated by Sophia

News 2012-08-04 22:45 View：1353

On the evening of August 2nd, “the sentiment of ZJJ” ,Neodalle charity concert was grandly held by the people of Hong Kong and zhangjiajie for the first time.Zhao Xiaoming, Zhangjiajie Mayor attended this event.With the theme of “big love surge, the affection of zhangjiajie”, the famous music team from Hong Kong, the 2011 champion of star road ,LiuSai and local artists of ZJJ, have performed a form with instruments, solo and due. The quiet melodious composition and sweet songs, which told the love and care for dropout students children, the aged widows who lived a difficult life and the disabled. All of these gave a deep feeling to the person on the charity concert, thus wining a burst of applause.This activity advocates human love and the purpose of helping each other,thus having realistic significance.Translated by Sophia

News 2012-08-03 22:56 View：1086

The travel peak season summer is coming to an end,so the mainstream of tourist visitors, such as students, teachers, family return in succession. Near September, the weather of WuLingYuan scenic spot turns cold gradually, and the temperature is comfortable. For the travellers who do not like “catch fashion”in the hot summer ,it provides a best choice in this period of time.From the reception situation, although the capacity of reception has decreased relative to peak summer vacation, it still has immortalization tourism momentum. At the same time, the scenic spot also can’t see long lines phenomenon, tourists travel quality have been greatly improved.Translated by Sophia

News 2012-08-03 08:58 View：1177