December 23, received good news from the Hunan Provincial Tourism Bureau: After a year of hard work, Zhangjiajie, Wulingyuan District successfully created the first tourism district county of Hunan Province, ranking first.Zhangjiajie wulingyuan as a "leading"of Hunan Province.In recent years, with good tourist areas and unique natural advantages of scenery, Through the continuous improvement hardware construction, vigorously implement natural resource conservation and orderly development of tourism products,strong management and market development, to achieve rapid economic development of tourism.

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A plate-conferring ceremony was held on December 23 to mark the official renaming of Tongren Daxing Airport of Guizhou Province into Tongren Fenghuang Airport and the extension project was launched in the meanwhile.It is the first airport in China whose name concerns two districts of different provinces.Tongren Fenghuang Airport is a feeder airport of Guizhou Province located at the province’s border with Hunan and Chongqing. It is over 20 kilometers away from both downtown Tongren and Hunan’s Fenghuang County seat. Around 50% of its site area is within Fenghuang County in Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Region, Hunan Province. Xiangxi, Guizhou’s Tongren District and Guizhou Airport Group reached an agreement in November, 2008 to confer this new name to the airport and expand it in line with the standards of domestic key tourist airports. Translator: Liu FenSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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Hunan Oil Group, first of its kind in the province, was established in Lixian County of Changde City on December 24. Composed of 17 oil companies including Hunan Vchen Industry Co., Ltd and Hunan Shanrun Tea Oil Technology Development Co., Ltd, the group aims to form an integrated industrial chain in the sector, improve its deep-processing level, and optimize the industrial layout to realize its large-scale development along the course of collectivization, and specialization.In 3 to 5 years, the group will be built into a large domestic oil corporation mainly engaged in the processing of low-fat and low-cholesterol rapeseed oil, refined rice oil, camellia oil and quality plant protein, with an annual output of 400,000 tons, a storage capacity of 150,000 tons and a sales revenue of 8 billion yuan.Translator: Li Xuan Source: Hunan Official Web Portal

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December 18 to 22, The traveling salesman from Kaohsiung, Taiwan, China Airlines and Taiwan's Kenting park,more than 30 people, study Zhangjiajie tours and tourism resources.December 22, Zhangjiajie related departments attended the forum, While Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, Tianmenshan National Forest Park, Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon, one Bailong elevator, Huanglong Cave, Baofeng lake, etc., Attractions leaders also invited to participate in this meeting.Finally,looking forward to friendly cooperation in 2012. 

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Hunan Province hosted a New Year reception for the international experts on December 23 at Huatian Hotel in Changsha City, where awards were presented to winners of the international experts' photo competition. Deputy Secretary-General of the Hunan Provincial People's Government Liu Mingxin delivered a greeting speech, Deputy Director of the Hunan Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs Lu Xiangli presided over the award ceremony and Director Wang Guishu announced the list of winners.To acquaint overseas experts with Hunan customs and conditions, encourage their love for the land, offer to them a more colorful sparetime life, enhance friendship between Chinese people and the people of the world, and arouse their work enthusiasm, the Hunan Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs invited overseas experts working in Changsha, Zhuzhou and Xiangtan to take part in the photo competition. The event has received a total of 159 works from enthusiastic experts.After the award ceremony and the reception, over 200 international experts and friends working or studying in Hunan attended a New Year concert at the Hunan Music Hall.Source: Hunan Official Web PortalOfficials present awards for the winnersSmiling Second Prize winnersA Japanese expert wins the First PrizeNew Year reception for overseas experts in HunanNew Year Concert for Overseas Experts is held at Hunan Music HallAudience listen to the Chinese national music. 

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BEIJING, Dec. 22 (Xinhua) -- China Three Gorges Corp. announced Thursday that it has won a bid for the Portuguese government's sale of a 21.35-percent stake in its power giant Energias de Portugal (EDP).The company outbid five other competitors, including German multinational E. ON and Brazilian power generators Eletrobras and Cemig, with a payment of around 2.69 billion euros.EDP is a major electricity operator in Europe and is Portugal's leading business group. Its annual business revenue accounts for about 9 percent of Portugal's national GDP.Three Gorges will conduct long-term and comprehensive cooperation with EDP in the area of clean energy, said Cao Guangjing, the corporation's board of chairman.Cao said Three Gorges plans to expand businesses to the markets of Europe, United States and Brazil based on the "standing point" of EDP and accelerate the pace of its "going global" strategy.The Chinese company operates the 22.5-billion-U.S.-dollar Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River, the world's largest water control and hydropower project.The Portuguese government's sale of its EDP stake is in accordance with a 78-billion-euro bailout package by the European Union and International Monetary Fund agreed upon in May, which obliges the government to improve its financial situation and revive national economy.Source: Xinhuanet

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It is reported that the information industry has become the eighth industry in Hunan Province that has achieved a productive capacity of more than 100 billion yuan.The new industrialization has been promoted effectively in Hunan these years. Up to 2010, there had already been seven industries each with an output of 100 billion yuan, including machinery industry, food industry and petrifaction industry. The contribution rate that the industry makes to the economic growth increased from 47.5% in 2006 to 55.8% in 2010. The province has kept a rapid growth in the industrial economy in 2011. From January to November, the added value of industrial enterprises above designated size totaled 720.106 billion yuan. The developing trend characterized by "Two-Oriented "conventional industries, clustering advantageous industries and expanding high-tech industries was taking its shape rapidly. The petrochemical industries of Yueyang have turned into an industrial cluster with an output of 100 billion yuan.The province also faces problems in the new industrialization, such as the necessity of strengthening the capacity of energy saving and the difficulty in financing for small and medium sized enterprises.Translator: Hao JingruSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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The Hunan Provincial Forestry Department revealed on Dec 21 that four photography works of Guidong County in Chenzhou City won awards in a photo competition marking the decennial of Hunan's public welfare forest protection project.Since the competition announcement was released in April 2011, shutterbugs in Guidong were busy taking photos on their favorable ecological environment. The Guidong Forestry Department received over 500 photos before the deadline and recommended 35 works to the Provincial Competition Organizing Committee after careful selection.Among the 92 awarded photography works, there are four from Guidong, accounting for 5% of the total. It is said that some of these awarded photos would be published in Forestry and Ecology, a periodical and Ecological Hunan, a picture album.Translator: Wu Lirong Source: Hunan Official Web Portal "Dense Forest" by Guo Mingxuan, in the Dongbian Mountain in Guidong County, Oct, 2011 "Observation on an Old Tree" by Deng Renxiang, Luo Xiuquan and Fu Renfei in July 2011

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