Hunan's Laosi Town, Regional Defense System Relic and Tong Ethnic Group Villages Contend for World Heritage Tentative List.The State Administration of Cultural Heritage is about to release a new "World Heritage Tentative List". With no world-level cultural heritage before, Hunan this time has three items contend for the list: Laosi Town in Yongshun County, regional defense system in Fenghuang and villages of the Tong ethnic group. It seems that Laosi Town has the great chance to win the event. The regional defense system in Fenghuang includes over 470 military relics such as towns, military outposts, ligatures, flank walls, etc. Fenghuan was a military town from Yuan to Ming and Qing Dynasties. The fully-equipped and well-built defense site is the product of cultural blend between local culture and Chu culture, culture of Miao ethnic group and culture of Han Chinese. The villages of Tong ethnic group in southwest Hunan are jointly applied by six counties in three provinces (Hunan, Guizhou and Guangxi). With well-preserved Tong culture, Tongdao and Liping, Sanjiang in the above three provinces respectively, being contiguous to each other, are the core regions for the dialect of southern Tong people. Translator: He Yao Source: Hunan Official Web Portal

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The Hunan economy mid-term report was officially released. According to the report, the GDP of Hunan in the first half year grew by 11.5%, higher than the national average and the fiscal income of the province, increased by 22.5%, better than what was expected. Meanwhile, it is estimated that the total outcome of the early indica rice will reach 8.17 billion kilogram this year, up 105 million kilogram than that in 2011. Recently, the initiation of 92 key projects of the first batch of Hunan's demonstration areas for undertaking industrial transfer have been restarted to facilitate the "Open-up and Rise" strategy in Hunan for another economic boom. Under the increasingly tense atmosphere, Hunan gains strength from three industries (the primary industry, the secondary industry, and the tertiary industry) boosting its economic progress. In the first half of 2012, Hunan's total volume of retail sales in social consumption reached 363.29 billion Yuan, up 15.5%, with a five-month accumulative growth above 15%. Its export reached 5.34 billion US dollars, up by 18.3%, higher than the national average whereas the total export-import volume realized 9.71 billion US dollars, an increase of 7.5%. Hunan's fixed investments saw a year-on-year rise by 24.2% , with medical treatment and public health increasing by 45.4% and housing guarantee projects growing by 4.6 times. Translator: Hao Jingru Source: Hunan Official Web Portal

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On the morning of August 5th, twenty-odd bicycle enthusiasts experienced Changsha's first bicycle-only lane and tour around the tunnel construction site of Nanhu Road. This event was organized by Hunan Radio Traffic Channel (FM91.8 Changsha) as a move to support Chinese athletes at the London 2012 Olympic Games. There are three exits on both sides of Shuyuan Road and Naihu Road respectively, at the east bank of the southern line of Nanhu Road tunnel under Xiangjiang River.. The construction of this tunnel is scheduled to be completed at the beginning of 2013 and will open to traffic in June, 2013. In order to relieve traffic jams and upgrade transport service quality, the 1.5 meters wide orange-yellow lane has been constructed for the convenience of cyclists and to benefit and encourage bicycle enthusiasts. Translator: Xiao Juan Source: Hunan Official Web Portal

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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

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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

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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

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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 

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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

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