On May 25 to 27, premier Wen Jiabao came to Guzhang county, Jishou city, and Huayuan county lying in Tujia and Miao autonomous region of western Hunan, to do the research aiming at promoting the development of the Poverty-stricken areas. Having gone deep into the heart of the mountains and visited the villages, farmers, schools as well as enterprises, he got known the production and life situation of the local people. Besides, he hosted a work discussion meeting about helping the poor and making substantial progress.On-the-spot investigation on the longest hanging bridge of the worldOn Friday afternoon, premier Wen investigated the Shutouxi and Morong town of Guzhang, the county settling in the deep heart of WulingMountain. The next morning, he tended to the Aizhai hanging bridge just built and opened the traffic. With the length of 1176 meters and the biggest span between canyons among the worldwide, this steel truss hanging bridge was regarded as an important poverty alleviation capital project.After that, premier Wen visited Gongjianao village of Zhangjiajie and Guzhang county of western Hunan successively. At the same time, he gave sincere greeting to the teachers and students in Shuangxi and Maoping village of Guzhang.Saturday afternoon, Wen Jiabao chaired the cross-province poverty alleviation discussion meeting of Wuling area in Jishou.Translated by Symbol

News 2012-05-26 00:22 View：1220

Shaoshan folk song has been listed among the third batch of Hunan's intangible cultural heritage items issued recently. Shaoshan City is pleased to announce Mao Aixia and Mao Jiyu as representative inheritors of the city's first intangible cultural heritage items.Legend has it that Emperor Shun once played Shao (music of Shun) on Shaoshan Mountain during his southbound trip and "when all nine parts of Xiaoshao music were completed, phoenix arrived appropriately", hence the place was named Shaoshan.In the gradual blending of the gentle and soft Shao music with local customs throughout history, the Shaoshan folk song, featuring varied tunes and beautiful melody, takes shape.Translator: Liu FenSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

News 2012-05-25 23:25 View：1376

BEIJING, May 23 （Xinhua） -- More than 260 prefecture-level Chinese cities are building digital geographic systems to provide better services to citizens, the National Administration of Surveying, Mapping and Geoinformation （NASMG） said on Wednesday.The NASMG said in a statement that over 100 of those cities have put their systems into full operation, including Taiyuan and Jincheng in Shanxi province, Huizhou and Foshan in Guangdong province, Yantai and Weihai in Shandong province.In the meantime, about 10 lower-level counties have also finished the construction of digital geographic systems.The digitalization of cities has become an important instrument for the government's decision making, and also helped improve citizens' quality of life, the NASMG explained.The statement said the country will build a digital geographic framework of China by 2015.It said the NASMG will choose some cities with well-developed digital geographic systems as pilot sites to build "smart cities," referring to urban centers administered with intelligent technology such as cloud computing.Source: Xinhua

News 2012-05-23 23:24 View：1153

The firework show of Central China Expo opening in Changsha-the capital city of Hunan Province sets five world records. The first 100 ,000 sq m rectangular LED firework show on water in the whole world; The longest and largest firework picture supported by the steel-wire net with a length of 856 meter; The pioneer of a diverse firework show ,a mixture of lasers,lights,music and firework controlling; The initiator to combine firework show with natural scenery for a panoramic view; The most accurate and frequency firework show tops 200,000 times. Supported by Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government ,this firework is the most splendid one all over the world ,and technically,surpasses that of Beijing Olympic Games and Shanghai Expo. Six ships' gentle coming marks the opening show,which on the behalf of six provinces in central China.Suddenly ,six beam of lights soaring to the sky for welcoming all the guests.Then all the firework pictures of Zhou dunyi (a philosophy ) Wang fuzhi (a thinker)Wei yuan(a statesman and writer) Chairman Mao and Qu yuan (a statesman and poet) and the surrounding natural scenery come into eyes,which earn a thunderous scream and praises.In closing, six ships each with a cultural symbol are sailing into the sea with dignity . Translated by Aileen

News 2012-05-22 23:40 View：5569

On the night of May 20th, Avenue of Stars screened a special program——“On the Wings of Song”, because of National Day of Assistive, which was broadcasted in the CCTV variety channel. Obviously, a good cast of characters was seen that night. Besides past contestants in Avenue of Stars like Li Yugang, Wang Erni and many other famous stars, as well as the lineup consisted of Paralympic champions such as Li Rui, Yang Bozun, Wang Ruixue, and Jiang Fuying. There were also numerous talented disabled people invited to show here. The Zhangjiajie blind girl Liu Sai, who won the champion of CCTV Avenue of Stars in 2011, offered a song “listen to the world”. According to this song, Liu Sai eulogized disabled people who pursued their lives stubbornly. At the same time, it gave great encouragement to those disabled children on the set. Using this song, Liu Sai gained warm applause.Translated by Becky

News 2012-05-22 23:34 View：1345

On May 19th this year,the opening ceremony of 2012 China Tourism Day was held in the Zhangjiajie National Forest Park's Oxygen Bar Square.The presented leaders ,guests and dancers in total over one thousand  applied a special methods to celebrate this day---- perform a Waving dance together in the square.By report,this is the second China Tourism Day since 2011 and the main venue is located in Jiangyin Jiangsu province with the slogan "Love travel; Enjoy life".At present,more than 20,000 tourist attractions has established in China await domestic and foreign tourists with cordial welcome.Translated by Aileen

News 2012-05-21 00:16 View：1823

On May 19th ,2012 ,the Seventh Trade and Investment in Central China(Central China Expo ) opens in Hunan International Expo Center, over 30,000 guests at home and aboard witness the feast.Sets the theme of "open cooperation ,share thriving and green development ",Central China Expo encompasses the world Chinese businessmen leaders summit,welcoming banquet ,laser firework show,opening ceremony,museum tour ,summit forum ,talkfest between six central provinces and multinational companies seven significant activities .Besides,a series of forum and fair related to the theme are included.The main exhibition in accord with Central China Expo's theme, emphasizes green industry , new energy, environment protection and energy-saving technology displaying in entity and network two ways.In total, there are 44 entity display areas with 3 outdoors and 41 indoors.The exhibits cover industry ,agriculture, culture, innovation, handcraft, electronic information and financial services etc. fields.Supported by over ten national ministries and commissions as well as six provincial governments of central China,the seventh Central China Expo adopts 1 plus 3 format （take Changsha as the center and Zhuzhou,Xiangtan ,Zhangjiajie as branch venues）for the first time.Moreover,the system to hold the Expo transformed to take turns from bid.Thus,the host province sequentially is Hunan ,Henan, Hubei,Anhui, Jiangxi,Shanxi during May 18 to 20 in each year.Translated by Aileen

News 2012-05-21 00:07 View：1423

Being included in the list of World Natural Heritage, Zhangjiajie can now proudly show another business card to the world as Xibu Street marked its debut on May17. Xibu Street, encompassing different minority cultures, represents a grand arena for Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Western Hunan. For instance, it covers folk culture bars of Tujia, Miao, Bai, Dong and Yao Minorities, and 9 theme inns of folk music, paintings and bridal chambers, etc. What’s more, Xibu Street also invited time-honored work shops to join and pass on handicrafts like batiks, silver objects, glasses, potteries so on so forth. The traditional bearers of dozens of intangible cultures also joined the jamboree of showcasing the Intangible Cultural Heritage of The Western Hunan.Translated by Misu Spark LeeSource: Zhangjiajie Official Web Portal

News 2012-05-20 00:03 View：1623