Duration: June 20 to 23Place: Miluo,Yueyang City, Hunan Province According to the organizing committee, the 8th China Miluo International Dragon Boat Festival will be held on 20th June, lasting till the 23rd. Miluo is the cradle of dragon boat culture. Duanwu folk customs along the Miluo River is an important part of World’s intangible heritage—Duanwu Festival (also known as Dragon Boat Festival and the Double Fifth, a traditional and statutory holiday originating in China). Since 2005, seven international dragon boat festivals have been successively held in Miluo. This festival will strive to highlight dragon-boat festival and the folk culture along the River, to promote local tourism industry. This four-day festival will present numerous splendid cultural activities. China Eastern performing art group is scheduled to perform a themed artistic performance “the great dragon encircling” for the opening ceremony. Other themed activities include the Chinese dragon boat open tournament, large-scale national poetic situational music party called “in memory of Miluo River”, international Qu Yuan (a great Chinese poet who lived during the Warring States Period in ancient China and who immersed himself in the Miluo River)culture seminar and the opening ceremony of Qu Yuan Culture Reader. Translator: Chen Wenjuan Source: Hunan Official Web Portal 

News 2012-06-19 12:39 View：1717

The launching ceremony of German (Hunan) Trade Exhibition Center and Kempinski Hotel Changsha was held at Shuntian International Financial Center in Changsha on June 19. He Baoxiang, vice governor of Hunan Province along with some German commercial representatives, representatives of Hunan-based banks and financial institutions witnessed the grand ceremony. Shuntian Group will collaborate with leading international hotel designers and consulting companies including Hirsch Bedner Associates (HBA), ARUP and Schmidlin Facade Consultancy to build up a top international commercial platform. Kempinskin Hotel Changsha, the first German-styled five-star hotel in South Central China and Hunan's first German trade exhibition center, will lead a batch of famous German enterprises and top brands to seek opportunities in the new market. Translator: Guo Yan Source: Hunan Official Web Portal

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Which sourced from Sanmao Railway recently,A through train K9068/67 from Zhaoqing (Guangzhou province) to Zhangjiajie launched, By report, on 1st July 2012, there are adjustments and stops of some trains in Foshan train station will be implemented. The train K9068/67 departing from Zhaoqing to Jishou has prolonged the destination to Zhangjiajie.In July, passengers from Guangzhou province to Zhangjiajie Western Hunan can enjoy the through train. Furthermore, the route of train K811 from Guangzhou to Chongqing has adjusted greatly. In detail, K811 is renamed K814 departing from Zhaoqing and its shutdown starts on 30th June. Also, the stations along the way changed.Translated by Aileen  

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On June 18, leaders of the CPC Hunan Provincial Committee and Hunan Provincial Government officially announced their plan to construct a stronger tourism industry in the next five to ten year period. The aim is to fortify indexes of economic contribution, market size and comprehensive strength of tourism in Hunan. By 2015, the province is planning to annually host more than 400 million people from home and abroad with an expected total income of over 360 billion Yuan, accounting for more than 14% of the province's GDP. Priority will be given to projects that mainly develop nine major tourist attractions, such as Shaoshan, Hengshan, Fenghuang and Langshan, to an international level, andintroduce ten tourism brands into domestic market, as well as promote 100 state-level tourism areas, build 100 high-end star-hotels, and foster ten well-known tourism enterprises with an annual revenue of more than 1 billion Yuan. In addition, greater efforts will be put in exploring new forms of tourism like introduction equipment manufacturing industry into tourism, exhibition tourism and tourism intelligence industry.Translator: Xiao JuanSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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Photo taken on June 15, 2012 shows the scenery spot inside the Yuelu Academy in Changsha, central China's Hunan Province. Yuelu Academy, known as the "Millennium Institution", will raise its entrance ticket price from 30 yuan （4.7 U.S dollars） to 50 yuan （7.9 U.S dollars） from July 1. After the rise, the China Academy Museum inside Yuelu Academy will offer free entrance to the public and visiting hours will be prolonged.Source:Xinhua

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The China Academy Museum, the country's only museum featuring the history of Chinese academies and cultural education, opened to the public in Changsha on June 14, 2012. Thousands of ancient Chinese academies were represented in murals in the museum. The museum is located in Yuelu Academy. It shares complementariness with Yuelu Academy that is a typical case of the traditional Chinese academies; the museum displays rich culture of academy by modern means, according to Chen Songchang, vice president of the museum.The floor area of the museum covers 4,768 square meters, with an exhibition area of 3,180 square meters. It costs over 50 million yuan, some of which is donated by Master Hsing Yun from Taiwan. It is made up of millennium hall of music (sing to the accompaniment of stringed instruments), academic education hall, academic study hall, and hall of academy worship, books, and engraved books. Translator: Lv Xuefen Source: Hunan Official Web Portal

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In the morning of June 8th, Liang Bi, the deputy mayor of Zhangjiajie people’s government of Hunan province, China, met Mr Walsch, the president of Germany KVB press in Asia-Pacific area. At the same time, the deputy director of tourist administration Zhou Zemeng and the chief of market promotion section He Jie also took part in the talks.Headquarter inMunich,Germany, KVB press is an International propaganda organization with experience of engaging in the regional business environment and image promotion. Having already co-published the image pamphlet of urban tourist of Singapore Bangkok,Kuala Lumpurand other areas with the governments of some countries such asSingapore,Thailand, andMalaysia, the press keeps a good political cooperative relationship with many countries inSoutheast Asia.At the meeting, the deputy mayor, Mr. Liang Bi focused on giving the introduction about tourism features of our city towards Mr. Walsch, hoping that they could recommend Zhangjiajie to their German friends through themselves as well as their works. During the talk, in terms of how KVB press could take advantages of the international press status and experience, and cooperate to promote Zhangjiajie tourism propaganda, both sides exchanged ideas, reached an agreement, and laid a good foundation for the development of follow-up work.In the afternoon, accompanied by the workers of Zhangjiajie Tourism bureau, Mr. Walsch made an investigation in some core scenic areas with typical landform of Zhangjiajie which are world-famous, such as the National Forest Park of Zhangjiajie.Translated by Aileen

News 2012-06-15 14:23 View：1234

The Hunan-Taiwan Tourism Cooperation Conference themed with "Splendid Hunan and Beautiful Taiwan" was held in Taipei on the afternoon of June 13. Yang Guangrong, head of the Hunan Provincial Tourism Bureau, introduced some key Hunan tourism routes and new tourism products at the conference. Vice Governor He Baoxiang attended the conference and delivered a speech.Mr. He said that Hunan and Taiwan, with ardent desire for cooperation, share complementary advantages in tourism resources and a solid foundation for tourism industry. This conference provided a good opportunity for direct exchange and cooperation for both sides. Hunan will make great efforts to introduce the province's beautiful, joyful and unique tourism resources to Taiwan people. At the same time, Taiwan's beautiful landscape featuring high mountains, thick forests, magnificent waterfalls and rivers as well as unique culture will also be promoted to Hunan tourists. With the increasingly deepened mutual cooperation in tourism, the tourism industry in Hunan and Taiwan will be prosperous and achieve a win-win result.Translator: Wang XiaoluSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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