The First Changsha (International) Arts Exposition was unveiled on December 19 at the Hunan Province Exhibition Center. About 3,500 pieces of modern arts of drawing, calligraphy, handiwork and ceramics are on display. The four-day event is open to public free of charge.This exposition covers an exhibition area of 10,000 square meters. The oil paintings and traditional Chinese paintings from famous art institutes and galleries of Spain, South Korea, North Korea and Latin America as well as China Taiwan are displayed to present the native artistic style of different regions.In addition, works of traditional Chinese painting masters like Huang Yongyu, Qi Baishi, Huang Binhong, Chen Baiyi, Huang Tieshan and works of well-known contemporary artists including Fang Lijun, Zhang Xiaogang, Yue Minjun, Mao Yan and Wang Guangyi were exhibited, drawing big crowds.As the first large-scale art exhibition of its kind in Hunan, it aims to set up a platform for art exhibition and exchange as well as to further spread Huxiang Culture abroad.The opening ceremonyTranslator: Wang BilianSource: hunan official website

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“Beautiful Countryside” construction activity that initiated by National Ministry of Agriculture in Feb, 2013 has released its final result: 1,100 countrysides across the nation has been selected into the “Beautiful Countryside” pilot project, among which ZJJ Shiyangping village becomes the only one that is selected from the region.Located in the southeast of ZJJ Yong ding district, Shiyangping village covers an area of 1,700 hectares. It has preserved 182 Tujia Diaojiao buildings that constructed in Ming and Qing dynasties and has a long history, beautiful environment and strong-favor of Tujia folk customs, which make it become one of the most preserved primitive Tujia tribes in south China. In 2012, ZJJ Shiyangping village was confirmed the first group of traditional countryside across the country; in May this year, The State Council officially confirmed it as the national key cultural relic protection unit. In recent years, with the speedy development of Zhangjiajie’s culture and tourism, ZJJ Shiyangping village becomes widely known with tourists packed in here.After the selection of “Beautiful Countryside” pilot project, These pilot countrysides will get fund supports from Ministry of Agriculture in terms of marsh gas construction, farmer training, argicultural technology promotion and rural clean project, etc. It is no doubt that Shi Yang Ping village’s selection will bring a new chance for it in its agriculture production, cultural tourism, village protection and facility construction.Source from: Changsha Tourism Bureau WebsiteBy Crystal

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The Wulingyuan Scenic and Historic Interest Area has many karst caves which are usually very large and unique, Notably Yellow Dragon Cave, Guanyin Cave, Water Sound Cave, Tortoise Nest Cave, Feiyun Cave and Golden Snail Cave,and so on.Of them, The most renowned one is Yellow Dragon Cave in Wulingyuan Suojiayu. It is 7.5 kilometers long in total and has four parts. The cave has one reservoir, two rivers, three waterfalls, four pools, 13 halls and 96 corridors inside.The fascinating “Toll from Ice” “Green Bamboo Path” and “Dragon Palace Dance” are the essential landscapes of Yellow Dragon Cave, And makes it one of the most renowned scenic spots of Wulingyuan Scenic and Historic Interest Area.Translated by Sophia

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Knowing from Zhangjiajie Mayor Quality Prize Conference, Charming Xiangxi has got this prize.Zhangjiajie mayor quality prize is approved by the national standard. It is the highest quality award, named with “Mayor”. It mainly implements performance excellence management model, Quality management level, and independent innovation ability, Which has made significant economic and social benefits.It is understood that Charming Xiangxi after more than ten years of development, has become the national well-known tourist performing arts company. The main program “Zhangjiajie Charming Xiangxi” wins overseas tourists love, tourists reception now has reached about 1 million people.Translated by Sophia

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The 2013 MBI World Boxing Championship was kicked off in Changsha on the evening of December 14. Eight Chinese boxers competed respectively against eight fighters from such countries as Brazil, Thailand, Japan, Philippines, New Zealand, Canada, and Malaysia. Finally, the thirty-eight-year-old Peng Xiaolong, a Chinese national with the title “King of Muay Thai”, won the champion at the score of 5-3.Peng Xiaolong knocks down the boxing champion from Japan in the second round.Translator By Li Xuan

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At its tourism product promotion conference in Kuala Lumpur on December 14, Zhangjiajie publicized and introduced its magical landform scenery of the Zhangjiajie World Geopark, which is included in the first batch of World Natural Heritage.“Zhangjiajie’s steep mountains and valleys resemble vivid picture scroll, and Zhangjiajie boasts the world’s well known natural heritage resources. Zhangjiajie will vigorously develop series of tourism products such as Zhangjiajie’s landform sightseeing tourism, sport climbing fitness tourism, and mountain and river landscape photographing tourism, to advocate concepts of ecological tourism, healthy tourism, environment friendly tourism, and low-carbon tourism”, said Mr. Hou, deputy director of the Administrative Office of Zhangjiajie National Forest Park.According to Mr. Hou, Zhangjiajie is now holding the third International Internet Photo Contest and welcomes Malaysian amateur photographers to participate in the contest. He also expressed Zhangjiajie’s willingness to cooperate with Malaysian tourism field, and to boom the market of tourist source through joint efforts of the two sides.Translator By Hao Jingru

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The 2013 Zhangjiajie (China) Tourism Promotion Conference was held in Bangkok on December 16.The conference aimed to publicize and promote the magical landform scenery of Zhangjiajie, a World Natural Heritage site, to the world and expand tourism market in Thailand, with the joint efforts of Thailand counterparts.According to Hou Jiaji, vice director of the Administration Office of Zhangjiajie International Forest Park, in recent years, tourism exchange and cooperation between Zhangjiajie and Thailand has been enhanced, and direct tourist charter flights between the two places have been launched. In addition, Zhangjiajie has set up local tourism flagship stores in Thailand, strengthening bilateral tourism exchange and visit. With the tourist number hitting about 20,000, Thailand has become Zhangjiajie’s second largest overseas tourist source country.A representative of the Tourism Authority of Thailand remarked that Thailand is a friendly neighbor of China and the two countries enjoy frequent cultural exchange. At present, China serves as the second largest overseas tourist resource country for Thailand.Translator By Zhang Minsi

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Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon is located in Sanguan Township of Cili County in Zhangjiajie City and is close to the world natural heritage and the world geological park– Wulingyuan scenic area of Zhangjiajie. It is a new development and construction of scenic spots. Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon combining mountain, water and hole, is the landform m

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“Far Pandora, Near Zhangjiajie” 2013 Zhangjiajie and Thailand Tourism Product Promotion was held in Bangkok.Zhangjiajie was designed to work together with Thailand trade, to have a propaganda and introduction of the world natural heritage landscape magical scenery, expanding the zhangjiajie tourism market in Thailand.Zhangjiajie tourism has exchanged and cooperated with Thailand in recent years. More and more widely conversation has opened in zhangjiajie. People can see Thailand tourist charter flights, Zhangjiajie’s tourism image stores. Zhangjiajie and Thailand’s tourism exchanges and visits constantly strengthened. In 2013, about 20,000 Thai tourists have visited Zhangjiajie. Thailand is the second largest foreign tourists’ country in Zhangjiajie.Thailand’s national tourism administration has said, in the two countries, They are friendly neighbors with increasingly frequent cultural exchanges between the two countries. China has become the largest inbound tourists. In 2013, more than 400 person-times Chinese visitors came to Thailand, 700,000 Thai visitors traveled to China.Translated by Sophia

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At the end of Dec, Hunan 7th Giant Salamander Artificial Fecundation Discharge Acitivity will be initiated in ZJJ Yellow Dragon Cave; At that time, Ten groups of gaint salamander parents and near 500 seedlings will be free in the site.The sound resource environment and high-quality water resources in the ecological sqaure of ZJJ Yellow Dragon Cave becomes the main meeting place for the discharge activity of gaint salamander. These giant salamanders will be discharged in the side of Hallelujah Music Hall of Yellow Dragon Cave ecological sqaure, cave and the oberservation station of Gaint Salamander National Natural Conservation Zone, becoming another cultural business card for the ecological tourism in Yellow Dragon Cave.“Yellow Dragon Cave ecological sqaure and the discharge activity of gaint salamander bring out the best in each other, for both of them is ecological. The discharge activity will make the finishing point in the former, boosting the orderly development in gaint salamander ecological tourism, popularization of science and tourism” Remarks by the person in charge of this free activity. It is reported there are 512,000 artificial domesticated gaint salamanders and near 200,000 seedlings output annually in Zhangjiajie, thus Zhangjiajie is honored “The Homeland of Gaint Salamander”. Since the free activity of gaint salamander in 2002, There is a total number of over 6,000. At this time, the activity will be simultaneously conducted in Zhangjiajie, Changde, Huaihua and other six counties and synchronous discharge will be conducted in Zhangjiajie Yongding district, Sangzhi county, Cili county.“Oberservation station of Gaint Salamander National Natural Conservation Zone” in ZJJ Yellow Dragon CaveBy Crystal

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