Wulingyuan library (cultural center) , human resources and social security bureau and tourism vocational school (namely, two hall with one school) were together built in YuJiaZui. In early 2008, the construction begain. At the end of 2010, the main body project was completed. Later, the district culture department was embarking on interior decoration and the service facilities construction.Wulingyuan library is at fourth floor, with the area of 800 ㎡. There are six functional areas,that is machine room, distribution room, collection room, adult reading room, children’s reading room and the electronic reading room.Cultural center covers an area of 1580 ㎡, including office district, dancing room, comprehensive activity room, training room and mass culture activity area. At present, all the various services facilities have been in place. The first batch of more than 15000 books has been completed retrieval and categorizing task, and the second batch of books is on the way. The library preliminary is scheduled for October 1 to welcome visitors, which will be free open to the society.Translated by Sophia

News 2012-08-02 22:55 View：1147

BEIJING, July 30 (Xinhua) -- Although most Chinese parents don't give a second thought about spending lavishly on their children, the mother of Xiang Miao, a high school sophomore who partook in a 16-day summer study tour abroad last year, regrets her careless spending. Xiang's mother paid 30,000 yuan (4700 U.S. dollars) for the so-called "overseas study tour," which boasts of homestay accomodation, collective learning and sight-seeing activities in a foreign country. "I would rather have taken him abroad myself if I had known about this kind of study tour. It is an eye-opener at best, rather than a way of truly enhancing his English skills or making preparations for future overseas study," she said.However, the number of applicants for such programs still saw "explosive" growth this year, according to Zhou Xiaolan, director of the marketing department at the New Oriental Education & Technology Group, a major Chinese education company.More than 10,000 students in Beijing alone will travel abroad for the group's summer study tour, more than the total for last year. "Tour packages to popular destinations such as the U.S. and Britain were booked up three months in advance and less costly tours were also nearly packed," she said. Chinese parents usually give their children a wide variety of choices when it comes to how and where they spend their summer vacation. With the affluence of the Chinese middle class growing all the time, such choices are no longer limited to domestic locations. A three-week trip may cost anywhere from 20,000 yuan to 43,000 yuan, depending on the destination. Most of the applicants are middle school students who have at least two to three years to wait before taking the national college entrance examination. Parents generally expect their children to gain a great deal from their overseas experience, and some have purposefully put their children in such programs as a warm-up before future overseas study. However, observers have warned prospective students and their parents to take caution, warning against profiteering and other shady practices. Parents have reportedly complained about too many sight-seeing and shopping activities instead of programs that can help their children improve their language and communication skills. Suzhou-based lawyer She Bin still worries about his son She Tinghui going abroad, even though the boy has already been abroad by himself once before. The boy is currently on a 12-day trip to the U.S., having already been to Singapore previously. "When he was in Singapore, he was aware that his Singaporean counterparts developed stronger skills in problem-solving. I believe that influence was important for his growth," said She Bin. The elder She recommended government-guided programs or those organized by schools and education authorities. Jiang Nan, an adviser for "global study tour" programs, advised parents to make sure they are clear about the purpose and schedule of any trip they choose to sign their children up for. "When checking the itinerary and credentials of the program's organizer, parents have to make sure at the same time that their children are really interested in exploring the place they are going," he said. Source: Xinhua

News 2012-08-01 22:31 View：1390

Knowing and understanding peacekeeping career, he put his whole heart into the peacekeeping business; From the United Nations peacekeeping area east timor, to Liberia. From an ordinary criminal policeman to the frontier team advisers, captain. From the region’s police chief, to the security guard’s office liaison officer. From Liberia police consultant, training officer to local police captain of the UN peacekeeping mission.In foreign peacekeeping mission, LiJingFeng, every day, was full of tension, danger, passion, and challenge.From 2002 to 2012, in the span of up to 10 years, LiJingFeng had been to east timor, Liberia three times. Facing the lack of electricity, water, hot humid weather, and materials, living in the poor unrest environment with armed fighting, he never turned back, without the slightest hesitation. He used his own experience, explaining the life value ideal to the motherland, for contributing hunan power about”the heart went away, and to be the first” to world peace. 

News 2012-07-31 23:13 View：1160

A joke doing the rounds on the Internet says that if Tang Dynasty (AD 618-907) poet Li Bai were living today, he could have composed only half of the poems about the beautiful scenery across China because of skyrocketing prices of tickets to tourist sites. Besides, tourism services are really poor in many places and travel costs in sharp contrast to the quality of service delivered. Just a few days ago, a man in his 70s from Anhui province, surnamed Yao, wrote to Hainan province governor Jiang Dingzhi, complaining about being insulted by his tourist guide on Hainan island for refusing to pay the extra cost to visit the scenic spots he was scheduled to. Later, the tourist guide "dumped" Yao to fend for himself in an unknown place. Yao is not the only one to be ill-treated by tour operators in Hainan, which aims to be an international tourist hub. Early this year, some tourists complained that they had to pay 4,000 yuan ($626) for just three dishes. Though Hainan officials have vowed to make more efforts to create a tourist-friendly environment and improve their tourist services, the related authorities, together with those in other parts of the country, should try to find the root cause of the poor tourist service. To gain greater competitive edge and attract more tourists, many travel agencies have advertised economy package tours at lower-than-normal prices, making it barely profitable for agencies and tour guides both. Therefore, their main means of making money is forcing tourists to visit self-funded scenic spots and shops. Many tour guides are not even paid by their employer agencies and have to rely on commissions from scenic spots and shops where they cajole or coerce tourists to go. For example, the money Yao paid to the travel agency in Anhui hardly covered his tickets to and from Hainan. That means, the Anhui agency "sold" the tourists to the Hainan agency for a song, so the latter forced tourists like Yao to pay an extra 600 to 900 yuan. Such tours leave a sour taste in the mouth for a long time. Many tourists who choose package tours find their trips rather tiring, troublesome and less satisfying than they had expected. Everything seems to go wrong. They can only spend one hour or even less at one scenic spot, merely enough to take a brief look at the scenery, click some photographs and then board the bus heading for the next site. The process is repeated day in and day out across the country. The rising prices of tickets to tourist sites - becoming increasingly unaffordable for ordinary people - is another painful aspect of the tourism industry. The price of a ticket to Zhangjiajie, a famous scenic spot in Hunan province, is 245 yuan, almost three times that of 10 that one has to pay to enter France's Louvre Museum. And to think that France's per capita GDP in 2011 was $44,008 compared with China's $5,413. Worse, exorbitant entry fees charged by tourist sites do not necessarily mean good quality service. Sometimes, restaurant waitresses, vendors around tourist sites, and even local guides and team escorts turn a cold shoulder to reasonable requests of tourists. So what needs to be done? China's tourism industry could start with implementing better regulation and management. Tourism authorities can improve the situation by setting up a strict and effective system of supervision and complaint-punishment mechanism, rather than indulging in empty talks to pacify angry tourists and netizens. Professional training offered to tourism-related service staff is equally important. Also helpful would be the introduction of "mystery customers", a practice with many of the World Top 500 enterprises. A "mystery customer" is a covert assessor who experiences and objectively reports on the quality of service delivered by a shop, a restaurant or a business when customers come into contact with staff members. Source:China Daily

News 2012-07-30 22:36 View：1535

Stepping into the Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, naughty wild monkeys, and shady trees may leap to your eyes before reacting. Especially nowadays, I think such a vibrant natural scenic spots is just the excellent place tourists are looking for. Casually walking in the woods, different monkeys’ jabber always can be heard here and there. Obviously, monkeys use their own fascinating songs to welcome the guests all over the world and celebrate the special festivals. Visitors are very curious about those vigorous, flexible sprites so that they can’t wait taking photos from time to time. In the meantime, monkeys certainly grasp every chance to show themselves. All kinds of postures reflect their profession when facing cameras from every angle.It is self-evident that wild monkeys have already become special mobile scenery in Zhangjiajie National Forest Park. Grouping monkeys sometimes wander along Golden Whip Stream, or play on the treetop, carefree and leisurely. In order to let wild monkeys get along well with tourists, specified staff protect and domesticate them elaborately. Thanks to those lovely monkeys’ appearing among countless tourists, harmoniously, spirituality, appeal, vitality have got a better annotation as time goes by; tourists usually feel reluctant to leave this lively paradise.Translated by Becky#gallery-3 {margin: auto;}#gallery-3 .gallery-item {float: left;margin-top: 10px;text-align: center;width: 33%;}#gallery-3 img {border: 2px solid #cfcfcf;}#gallery-3 .gallery-caption {margin-left: 0;}

News 2012-07-29 16:03 View：1314

London,the 30th Olympic games is in play .Wenlock,the mascot of this Olympics is orginated as an Irish name, which means- from the holy monastery. How much do you know about mascots of successive Olympics.Now ,let’s have a look. The 20 th Olympic Games in Munich, Germany In 1972.The first Olympic mascot :a dog called WaldiThe 21st of the Olympic Games in Montreal ,Canada in1976. “Amik” the beaverThe 22ndth Olympic Games in Moscow ,former Soviet union. bear MishaThe 23 th Olympic Games in Los Angeles,USA in 1984.“Sam “eagleThe 24 th Olympic Games in Seoul,South Korea in 1988.Tiger HodoriThe 25 th Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain in 1992.“Cobi” dogThe 26 th Olympic Games in Atlanta ,USA in 1996.“Izzy “computer modelingThe 27 th Olympic Games in Sydney Australia in 2000. “Syd” ,” Millie” , “Oily”The 28 th Olympic Games in Athens,Greece in 2004.”Athena”,” Phevos”The 29 th Olympic Games in Beijing China in 2008.Fuwa (Beibei Jingjing Huanhuan Yingying Nini)The 30 th Olympic Games in London England in 2012.”Wenlock”From Aileen

News 2012-07-28 09:05 View：2676

On the afternoon of July 26th, “Construction changes life”, 2012, the development of ZJJ summit was held successfully.This summit is one of theme activities, in the first travel elaboration city construction exhibition. It is guided by the propaganda department of the municipal party committee, held by newspaper office of ZJJ , and supported by municipal housing and construction bureau support. It talks about “the landscape articles”, “how to achieve the construction to a better breakthrough”, “striving the leading role in the mountain area”. The three big themes discuss the construction and development of zhangjiajie, which trying to make better breakthroughs and playing a important role in the WuLingYuan area. The summit will push project and city in harmony, promote the adjustment of urban layout in ZJJ, and perfect the urban transport functions,thus promoting industrial upgrading and ascending humanity spirit, so as to realize the ambitious goal of constructiing tourism boutique city.Translated by Sophia

News 2012-07-27 09:13 View：1146

“We tried to find the way down the mountain but the night came down. We asked the leader of the Committee to help. ….” Two guests from Ukraine wrote in visitor′s book of huangshi village scenic spot.July 18, at night about 8 o′clork, Management committee of HuangShi village received phone from employees. They found that two foreign guests can’t speak Chinese. The staff who was on duty rushed to the scene, led the guests to the management committee office to rest after tea. Through communication, knowing that they are Ukraine teachers. As a matter of fact, they wanted to down the mountain, but went to the round village. As the sky went dark, they still trapped in the mountain, and needed help.Due to the limitation of scenic area, it did′t have the function of recepting visitors overnight. To ensure absolute safety of foreign tourists, staff reported to public security department, and decided to escort guest down the mountain. Then, three members from scenic spot,that is QinHaiYang, LiuDaiSheng, ZhangMi, took emergency flashlight, put on raincoat, walked down through tourism channel to escort guests down the mountain. It was raining at that time, and the road was slippery. Two tourists were very tired, so LiuDaiSheng did not hesitate to take up the heavy bag on the shoulder. Meanwhile, reminding them of being careful on the way, and letting them go on the inner road to ensure safety. In order to reduce the fear of going downhill at night, escort personnel also actively communicated with them, two tourists also had the interest to learn Chinese. Though more than a hour′ trip, in late 10 pm ,the tourists arrived at police station. It was not until 12pm that escort personnel returned to the management committee office.Management Committee of HuangShi village always adhere to the evening “off gate” patrol system and the emergency relief mechanism of convoying stranded tourists at night. That is to ensure the peace of scenic spot and tourists security. At the same time, taking the lead in promoting internationa tourism, they also enhance the ability of servicing foreign guests, thus scenic quality management service brand got a high social praise from the tourists and all walks of life .Translated by Sophia

News 2012-07-26 16:09 View：2152