A prestressed concrete box girder, which was 32.6 meters long, 12 meters wide and weighed 800 plus tons, was safely and accurately settled at the Sitouchong Bridge, a pass-through of the Shanghai-Kunming High-speed Railway in Hunan section, by a 900 tons’bridge girder erection machine at 9 o'clock of December 9.Shanghai-Kunming High-speed Railway, one of the national key programs of the "four longitudinal and four crosswise high-speed railways", is made up of three sections, namely, Shanghai-Hangzhou section, Hangzhou-Nanchang section and Changsha-Kunming section. Upon completion, it will only take 4 hours to travel from Changsha to Kunming and Hangzhou respectively with the design speed of 250 kilometers per hour.The 416-kilometer long Changsha-Kunming section, 83.15% of which is to be tunnels, is scheduled to connect such cities as Changsha, Xiangtan, Loudi, Shaoyang and Huaihua. Nine newly-established railway stations including Xiangtan North Railway Station will be covered. Translator: Wang Bilian Source: Hunan Official Web Portal

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The Combined photo shows the moon in various stages of a total lunar eclipse over Shenchi, north China's Shanxi Province, on Dec. 10, 2011. Enthusiastic skywatchers across China swarmed to streets, planetariums and mountains to watch the total lunar eclipse on Saturday night, the best such celestial show in China in ten years. The spectacle, which could be admired in much of the world, began at around 7:30 p.m. in Beijing and lasted for six hours, when Earth moved between the sun and the moon and cast its shadow over the lunar disk.However, the refracted sunlight still illuminated the moon, making it appear reddish and supersized.In Beijing, more than 500 astrophiles went to the city's planetarium to watch the sky show with the help of four optical telescopes."The lunar eclipse tonight is quite enjoyable for ordinary watchers as it happens at such a fine Saturday night," said Zhu Jin, head of Beijing Planetarium.In Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, local residents and tourists took to the West Lake despite a steep drop in temperature after a cold front swept across the region.Southwest China's Tibetan Autonomous Region also witnessed an influx of skywatchers and photographers, who are attracted by the plateau's clean air and shiny night."I traveled here all the way from Chongqing just to capture the best of the moon, and Tibet's clear sky has not disappointed me," said Yang Long, a journalist photographer from the southwestern municipality of Chongqing.Saturday's total lunar eclipse is considered the best of its kind since 2001, according to Wang Sichao, a research fellow with Nanjing-based Zijinshan Astronomical Observatory under the Chinese Academy of Sciences."It is the best because it offers people residing in China a perfect chance to observe the entire process," said Wang.The next total lunar eclipse would occur in October 2014, but the Chinese had to wait until 2018 to enjoy an entire process, Wang added.On the country's popular micro-blogging sites, photos by professional and amateur photographers were widely forwarded, and topics about the eclipse received millions of comments as of Saturday evening.Local newspapers and airline companies also summarized or recommended those flights offering the best view of the eclipse in the air. Source: Xinhua(Xinhua/Fan Minda)

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On December 12, the Happy Day for Stay-at-Home Children of Migrant Workers was celebrated in Hexing Primary School in Guzhou Town, Shaoyang County, Shaoyang City, Hunan Province. It is the third time for the children in the county to enjoy a festival of this kind since its establishment in 2009.Till now, 120 mental health counseling stations have been established, and video and phone facilities have been installed in all the schools with available network which will open free of charge for over 60,000 left-behind children to help them contact their parents.Translator: Zhou Jingqi Source: Hunan Official Web Portal

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Seven Chinese cities agreed on Saturday they would form a joint campaign to inscribe the ancient maritime Silk Road into the UNESCO World Heritage list.The seven port cities, namely Beihai, Guangzhou, Quanzhou, Ningbo, Yangzhou, Penglai and Zhangzhou, signed a program of action at a forum in east China's Zhejiang Province, pledging to cooperate on the application efforts.A platform will be built to facilitate governments, museums, and cultural relics authorities of the seven cities to co-study and preserve cultural heritages related to the ancient trade route, said the agreement.The seven cities served as important export ports in Chinese history, from which silk and porcelain products started to be shipped to regions as far as east Africa more than 2,000 years ago. Source: Xinhua

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Spending less time on the way, and more time at zhangjiajieAt 12: 01: 29 on November 17th,2011, Flight Number HL7762 with the type of A320 OZ3212 managed its two-and -a-half-hour maiden voyage with 139 tourists from the Renchuan Airport of South Korea to Lotus Airport of Zhangjiajie, which presented the formal,wider opening of foreign airlines at zhangjiajie, and Spending less time on the way, and more time at zhangjiajie.In recent years, Zhangjiajie had more and more foreign tourists,so that The Hunan Provincial Party Committee, The Provincial Government, The Zhangjiajie Municipal Party Committee, The Municipal Government, and some other relevant departments tried hard to achieve the full opening of international flights.so as to build Zhangjiajie an international tourism city. Finally,In November 2010, China's State Council approved Zhangjiajie Lotus Airport of opening to foreign airlines.According to the personage inside course of study, Most foreign tourists had to go to Changsha by air first, and then take an express bus or a train to go to Zhangjiajie, the destination, in the past, which totally cost 8 hours more than the present direct way, and definitely wasted their time. Fortunately, this newly-opened airline has been contributing to the smooth flow of traffic and the extending of foreign tourism market.Translated By ZhoutingSource: Zhangjiajie Official Web

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On Nov. 09, as the picture illustrated, a tourist was walking on the glass plank road at the Tianmen Mountain, Zhangjiajie. The newly-built glass plank road in the Zhangjiajie Timen Mountain National Forest Park had been formally opened to the tourists. This glass plank road, with clouds flowing on, located at the west route by the cliff in the National Forest Park, is with the length of 60m, and its highest elevation reaches 1430m, inclined to compare with the Ghost-Valley Plank Road by the cliff, the glass viewing platform stretching to the air, and the wooden suspension bridge spanning across the valley according to the relevant introduction. All the tourists are required to wear shoe covers in order to keep the road entirely clean and transparent for sightseeing.Translated By Vincent Chou 

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On Nov. 09, as the picture illustrated, a tourist was walking on the glass plank road at the Tianmen Mountain, Zhangjiajie. The newly-built glass plank road in the Zhangjiajie Timen Mountain National Forest Park had been formally opened to the tourists. This glass plank road, with clouds flowing on, located at the west route by the cliff in the National Forest Park, is with the length of 60m, and its highest elevation reaches 1430m, inclined to compare with the Ghost-Valley Plank Road by the cliff, the glass viewing platform stretching to the air, and the wooden suspension bridge spanning across the valley according to the relevant introduction. All the tourists are required to wear shoe covers in order to keep the road entirely clean and transparent for sightseeing.Translated By Vincent Chou 

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From Nov.23 to Nov.26, HNTV International joined hands with HK NOW Mango Online to shoot an on-site film of the core scenic site of ZJJ——Wulingyuan Scenic and Historic Interest Area. The featured show will be released in four parts in January, 2012, 15 ms/ part.Translated by Misu Spark LeeSource: Zhangjiajie Official WebNatural scenery of  ZhangjiajieNatural scenery of  Zhangjiajie

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