After three years' construction, Hunan's largest freight station--the New North Railway Station of Changsha was put into operation on January 8, 2012. It will play an increasingly important role in propelling the economic and social development of the city and the province. Chen Run'er, secretary of the CPC Changsha Municipal Committee, declared the opening of the station. Changsha Mayor Zhang Jianfei presided over the ceremony. The new station, with a total investment of nearly four billion yuan, is an important part of the relocation and construction of Changsha North and South Railway Stations. The transport volume of Xianing Station's freight yard is planned as 20 million tons in the future, and in the short term is to reach five million tons. The annual cargo handling capacity will be three times larger than that of the old one. "The opening of the station marks a success of the relocation and construction project via the cooperation between the railway departments and the local areas", said Li Wenxin, president of Guangzhou Railway Group. Li remarked that Guangzhou Railway Group will go all out to promote the sound and rapid development of Hunan's economy and society. Translator: Lv XuefenSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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On January 5, 2012, Zhangjiajie Customs, the sixth customs affiliated to Changsha Customs, PRC, was officially opened and started operating on that day. It will greatly facilitate the enterprises located in Zhangjiajie and Wuling mountain areas in export declaration.Wang Yibiao, manager of a local clothing company whose products are mainly exported to South America, said that the customs helps them a lot in saving efforts to declare and record here rather than in Changde Customs as usual.Mayor of Zhangjiajie Zhao Xiaoming stated that along with the opening of the first international airport in Wuling mountain areas and Zhangjiajie Customs, the city will accelerate the extension of the Hehua Airport in a bid to welcome an annual handling capacity of 19,000 tons of freight and 5 million passengers including 750,000  ones exiting and entering China here.Translator: Li Xuan Source: Zhangjiajie Official Web PortalVice Governor Hebaoxiang speechHubojun and Liwenjian officially inauguratedZhaoxiaoming speechZhangjiajie Customs seal has been awarded

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Yuelu Mountain & Orange Isle Scenic Area was successfully upgraded to the sixth national 5A-class scenic area in Hunan Province.In recent years, the CPC Changsha Municipal Committee and the Changsha Municipal People's Government have made great efforts in the renovation and environmental treatment of the scenic spot, investing 1.67 billion yuan in upgrading the Orange Isle Scenic Spot and 2.25 billion yuan in Tianma Mountain Scenic Spot for ecological restoration and environmental treatment. Due to the remarkable development and environmental improvement recently, it was successfully upgraded to a national 5A-class tourism area, taking Yuelu Mountain, Orange Isle, Yuelu Academy and Xinmin Institute as a whole. The plate will be conferred at a later date.This successful declaration will further enhance Changsha's popularity and reputation in tourism, and play a vital role in promoting the city's prosperity through tourism industry and forging Changsha into an outstanding tourist destination in China.Translator: Wang XiaoluSource: Hunan Official Web PortalYuelu Mountain Scenic Area-AiwantingOrange Isle Scenic Area-Maozedong statue

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On Jan. 4, commissioned by Minister of Agriculture Han Changfu, Ye Zhenqin, a division chief with the Ministry of Agriculture, handed the medal, certification and merit booklet for "Agriculture Scientists with Outstanding Contributions to Grain Production" to Academician Yuan Longping, director of the China National Hybrid Rice R&D Center. The letter of congratulation from Mr. Han to Yuan was read out.Gladly Academician Yuan said that the award would encourage and push him to step forward. As the third period's goal of super hybrid rice has been achieved, Prof. Yuan attempts to lead his team in realizing the yield of 1,000 kg per mu in large tracts of land nationwide by the age of 90.On Dec 26, 2011, in the Grain Production Commendation Conference held in the name of the State Council for the first time, 300 experts, including Yuan Longping, were honored as "Agriculture Scientists with Outstanding Contributions to Grain Production", who enjoyed equal treatment as national model workers.Translator: Wu LirongSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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Seven scenic spots in Hunan have been included on the list of 87 newly-approved 4A National Scenic Spots, as released by the National Scenic Spots Grade Evaluation Committee in recent days. Hunan's 4A scenic spots at the sate-level amount to 49 with the addition of these seven.The newly-added seven are the Hu Yaobang Former Residence in Liuyang, the Jingang Ancient Town in Changsha, the Qingshui Lake Scenic Area in Changde, the Zhangjiajie Great Valley, the Longnv Scenic Area in Chenzhou, the Shennong Valley at Emperor Yan's Mausoleum in Zhuzhou and the Qianzhou Ancient Town in Jishou.In addition, the Luoxi Forest Park in Dongkou County has been upgraded to a national forest park at the National Forest Park Appraisal Conference.Translator: Guo YanSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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The beginning of 2012, Zhangjiajie wulingyuan scenic spot ushered in the first snow.Zhangjiajie landscape scenery is beautiful.

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2011 National Tourism Bureau Notice No. 15, approved Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon as a national 4A level scenic tourist attractions.Related News:April 2011, Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon was passed initial inspection of Zhangjiajie Municipal Tourism Bureau, and then in September, was passed re-inspection of Hunan Tourism Bureau.Zhangjiajie grand canyon is new discovery outside Zhangjiajie National Park,Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon situated in Sanguansi, cili county Zhangjiajie city, 10 km east to Wulingyuan world natural heritage site, which is a new discovery of scenic site.  When driving close to the entrance a expanse of bamboo disappear, you find a deeply lower Valley with cutting-edge cliffs.a hill path cutting through narrow crevice leads vertically to the bottom of the valley, the area is about 60 square km.It is an investment in development and construction of Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon Scenic Spot Management Limited ,September 2005,Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon began building.and opened in October 2009, an investment of RMB 150 million yuan, after two years of creating, various services have been improved, more and more tourists visit the Grand Canyon.Source: Zhangjiajie Official Web Portal

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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao visits the residents of Xiaohutang Community in Haoshan Lane, Zhuzhou City on Jan. 2nd. Premier Wen talks with the rural migrant workers at the construction site of Shanshan Resettlement Housing Area in Jiuhua Demonstration Zone, Xiangtan City on Jan. 1. Wen inspects the manufacturing quality and management of Jianglu Electromechanical Science & Technology Co., Ltd. on Jan. 2. Wen inquires about the products in the workshop of CSR Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Co., Ltd.Wen greets the staff working overtime during the new year holiday in Zhuzhou Kibing Group Co., Ltd.5Wen visits the Manjianghong wet market in Zhuzhou City, to inspect the supplies and commodity prices and deliver new year wishes to the citizens.CHANGSHA, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has called for confidence in surmounting economic difficulties and stabilizing growth as the country faces a "cooling market." "We must face the challenges with full confidence and overcome difficulties to achieve the target of making progress while maintaining stability," Wen said during a tour of central China's Hunan province on Sunday and Monday. "By stability, we do not mean a standstill," Wen told company officials during visits to machinery and glass manufacturers. "Instead, we should stabilize economic growth, keep the overall price level basically stable and promote social harmony and stability."In the meantime, progress must be achieved in restructuring the economy, transforming the development pattern, improving technologies, management and efficiency, and making breakthroughs in reforms and opening up, he said.The premier visited machinery manufacturers, locomotive producers and rural migrant workers in two cities in Hunan and delivered a message of confidence as the new year arrived. "As long as we pull together, we will have the confidence, courage and capability to get over the current difficulties and maintain stable and relatively fast economic growth," he said.China set the main theme of next year's economic and social development as "making progress while maintaining stability" after a three-day central economic work conference held last month, which charted the course of next year's economic work.The world's second largest economy slowed to 9.1-percent growth in the third quarter of 2011 from 9.5 percent in the second quarter and 9.7 percent in the first quarter.The Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI), a preliminary readout of the country's manufacturing activity, dropped below 50 percent in November, the first time since February 2009. It rebounded to 50.3 percent in December.The premier noted that China is caught in a position where pressure for an economic downturn and high price levels both exist.Compared with 2008, when the global financial crisis hit, dwindling external demand and rising costs for enterprises have further complicated the current situation, he said."We have a relatively cool market, which is the core of today's problems," Wen told the entrepreneurs.Boosting domestic demand focuses on consumption demand but also includes investment demand, he said, while stressing that investment must be better structured.Investment in industries with overcapacity, high pollution and energy intensity, and redundant construction must be curbed, he noted.The government has underlined a balance between sustaining growth and controlling inflation. The central bank hiked banks' reserve requirement ratio (RRR) six times and the benchmark interest rate three times in 2011 before cutting the RRR in December.In response to business concerns over fund strains caused by the monetary tightening, Wen reiterated the line of fine-tuning and presetting monetary policies."There lies an issue of structure in fund supply. We can't talk about the scale of loans and liquidity on a general level, but should instead analyze the situation of different industries and companies thoroughly to solve the problems one-by-one," he said.In the visit to a locomotive company, Wen urged the rail industry to strengthen scientific design, staff management and after-sales service, and put safety and quality as the top priority in research and manufacturing.A high-speed train rammed into a stalled train in east China's Zhejiang province in July, leaving 40 people dead and 172 injured. Official investigators cited design flaws and mismanagement as the cause.Wen said he "felt deeply sad" about the accident while calling for the continuous development of the high-speed rail industry."The accident taught us a lesson and made us understand that we must work arduously with stronger senses of confidence and responsibility to achieve the safe, healthy and sustained development of China's high-speed railways," Wen said during the visit.Source：Xinhua

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