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：1380

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：1113

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：1200

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：1175

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：1418

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：1182

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：1558

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：1342