The seventh meeting of Hunan Writers Association (HWA) unveiled its curtain in Changsha on the morning of June 20. Writer representatives and literary workers across the province attended the meeting and discussed strategies of boosting Hunan' s literary. Zhou Qiang, secretary of the CPC Hunan Provincial Committee, and Li Bing, party secretary of the Chinese Writers Association (CWA) delivered speeches at the meeting.　　Secretary Zhou conveyed his greetings and respect to literary workers across the province. He said that Hunan literary circle, writers and literary workers have made great contributions in guiding the society, educating people and promoting the development through earnestly implementing the CPC Central Committee's policies on literature and arts, and actively taking part in the project of building Hunan into a powerful cultural province since the opening of the sixth meeting of HWA six years ago. Li Bing, on behalf of CWA, congratulated on the successful opening of the meeting.　　The working report on the sixth council of HWA and an explanation of revising The Regulations of Hunan Writers Association were made after the opening ceremony.　　Translator: Wang XiaoluSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

News 2011-06-21 11:56 View：1537

Fourth Hunan Animal Husbandry Expo Unveiled,Zhangjiajie 6 products win the gold medal.They are: Salamander toothpaste, Sugar peptide fruit drinks, Zhangjiajie beef, Salamander noodles, Green shell eggs, Tujia wild pork.The Fourth China Hunan Animal Husbandry, Fishery & Feed Industry Expo (short for Animal Husbandry Expo) unveiled its curtain in Changsha Red Star International Convention and Exhibition Center on June 18. More than one thousand competitive products of animal husbandry, fishery and feed industry from Hunan and other provinces were displayed at the expo. Such provincial leaders as Chen Shuhong, Xu Minghua and Yang Baohua attended the opening ceremony.The expo is themed by "Glancing back at the 'Eleventh Five-Year Plan‘， looking to the 'Twelfth Five-Year Plan’， innovation and development". At the Industry Achievement Exhibition Section, cities and prefecture of Hunan Province showcased their respective development achievements in breeding industry during the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" period and development plans during the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period by means of objects, pictures and videos.  The Exhibition Section of Processed Products stopped the steps of merchants. In addition, there are also six professional exhibition areas for feed industry, veterinary medicine, local improved variety, leisure breeding, breeding facilities and enterprises from other provinces.Over three hundred enterprises set up five hundred booths at the two-day expo.

News 2011-06-21 01:24 View：1595

A series of portraits of Chairman Mao, embroidered by over 20 artists from Changsha Shoupai Embroidery Factory, were completed after five years of hard work. These portraits will be exhibited at Comrade Mao Zedong Memorial Museum in Shaoshan during the period of June 15 through July 15.The exhibition is themed on the images of the great man. Seven masterworks portray the brilliant images of late Chairman Mao Zedong in different significant historical moments. The portraits are expressive with meticulous stitches and exquisite materials. The artists created so many new stitches and crafts that the three dimensional and lighting effects are quite impressive. They can be regarded as the huge masterpieces of Hunan embroidery."The reason for embroidering such a series of works is that we hope young generations, on the occasion of the 90th founding anniversary of the CPC, can engrave on their minds the great man who dedicated himself to Chinese revolution when enjoying these works of art." said Su Zhili of Hunan Shoupai Embroidery Factory.Translator: Li LingSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

News 2011-06-20 01:23 View：1614

Changsha Yanghu Wetland Park, the largest wetland park in central China is scheduled to open on June 21. The superior ecological environment makes the park another "green lung" of the city.The park started construction at the Changsha Pioneering District on the west of the Xiangjiang River on July 29, 2010. Covering an area of 702 hectares, the park consists of five functional districts including wetland recreation district, wetland ecological conservation district, wetland biodiversity exhibition district, river wetland district and wetland education district. The five districts aim to play a positive role in keeping the balance of the ecological environment of the urban wetland system, protecting the function and biodiversity of the urban wetland and promoting the sustainable utilization of resources.Aiming to build up the wetland biological system with biodiversity, the park makes the most of the resource-conserving and environment-friendly technology and new materials. What impresses you most will be the former 52-square-kilometer dirty water area at Hanpu District which has been deeply cleaned through biological technology.Translator: Guo YanSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

News 2011-06-19 01:20 View：2136

After months of preparation, 36 pieces of treasures elaborately selected by Hunan Provincial Museum have successfully launched at the website of Virtual Collection of Masterpieces (VCM), a project of the Asia-Europe Museum Network (ASEMUS). On June 13, 2011, VCM released this news at its homepage, welcoming the participation of Hunan Provincial Museum.Virtual Collection of Masterpieces (VCM), co-funded by Asia-Europe Foundation and Asia-Europe Museums Network and in partnership with International Council of Museums (ICOM), Lab for Culture, etc., is a project that uses the Internet and masterpieces in the collections of contributing museums to promote mutual understanding and appreciation between the peoples of Asia and Europe. Since it started, more than 100 world-renowned museums from 29 countries in Asia and Europe have successively come aboard; and the website hence grows up to be the largest platform for museum information, especially the "masterpieces" all around the world.Since February, 2011, relevant staff in Hunan Provincial Museum had devoted themselves to this project. After months of preparatory work such as background research, images selecting, text compiling, translating, proofreading, submitting and numerous contacts with VCM's person-in-charge, 36 pieces of "representatives" were finally selected from the abundant collection of Hunan Provincial museum and launched at VCM. With interesting stories and detailed introduction, these objects will, as the "international top masterpieces", on behalf of the 180,000 pieces of objects in the collection of Hunan Provincial Museum, show the brilliant culture and history of Hunan region to the whole world.English and Chinese webpage of one of the masterpieces: Plain Gauze GownTreasures launched at VCM website include the cultural relics excavated from the Mawangdui Tombs of Han Dynasty, the bronze wares of Shang and Zhou Dynasties, pottery and porcelain works, calligraphy works and paintings, and modern relics, which represent the long history of Hunan region from Palaeolithic age to the contemporary era.The 36 pieces of selected "masterpieces"Source: Hunan Provincial Museum

News 2011-06-18 01:21 View：1658

Following after Shooting of the CCTV 《Discovery》and《Explore》in zhangjiajie Tianmen Mountain; Recently, CCTV international's Chinese channel 《Distant  home》 column group has also walk into zhangjiajie, from natural scenery, historical and cultural, recreational characteristics and so on various tianmen mountain comprehensive interpretation. The shooting up to eight days, will make 45 minutes of films, in July in early summer prime-time broadcast four sets of CCTV.  

News 2011-06-17 01:03 View：1570

Hunan's First Accreditation of Intangible Cultural Heritage was held in Changsha on the evening of June 12.Going through recommendation, re-exanimation, review, primary selection, public notice, inspection, voting and final appraisal, the accreditation activity lasted for five months and finally chose Hunan's ten most charming intangible cultural heritage items and recipients of other three awards.Zhangjiajie SangZhi folk song was named hunan the ten most attractive intangible cultural heritage projects.

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On June 13, Hunan Provincial Education Association for International Exchange announced that 100 outstanding middle school students will be selected across Hunan and sent to U.S. for further studies in 2012. To facilitate the selection, the SLEP (Secondary Level English Proficiency) Intensive Training Camp for middle school exchange students will be held in the First High School of Changsha this summer.

News 2011-06-16 00:57 View：1768