On September 14, the third "Ancient City, Ancient Town and Ancient Village" Cultural Tourism Festival & Cultural Tourism Month across the Straits was launched in Huaihua, Hunan Province.Themed "Legendary Huaihua, a Paradise of Ancientry", the opening ceremony bubbled with songs and dances presented by performers in front of the Drum Towers of the Dong minority. The audiences savored the ancient culture as the performance went on or enjoyed the ancient view under the large screen at the site. Coming from Taiwan, some veterans of the Anti-Japanese War (1937-1945) even choired to memorize their victory over Japan in Zhijiang in 1945 and eulogize peace. It is reported that the festival aimed to demonstrate the profound historical and folk culture of Huaihua, to set up a cultural tourism brand of ancient city, ancient town and ancient village, and to promote the culture of peace in Zhijiang. Cooperating with such related areas as Hunan Province, Chongqing City, Guizhou Province and Guangxi Province, Huaihua will spare no efforts to boost the development of cultural tourism industry around the Wuling Mountain.Li Hui, mayor of Huaihua City, declared the festival open and extended her warm welcome to visitors from all around the country. According to the sponsor, such series of activities as the Promotion Seminar on Cultural Tourism across the Strait & the Strategic Investment Cooperation Agreement Signing Ceremony, Memorial Ceremony for Martyrs in the Anti-Japanese War and Workshop on Tourism of Culture of Peace will get started as well during the festival.Translator: Li XuanSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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The Hunan-Guangxi High-speed Railway is set to open to traffic on January 1, 2014. By then the travel time between Changsha and Nanning will be shortened from 15 hours to 6 hours. In an attempt to promote tourism development, seven cities along the high-speed railway formed a tourism cooperation alliance in Hengyang on September 13, setting up a fast and convenient tourism route from Hunan to Guangxi.The move is to follow the tourism trend of taking high-speed railways and experiencing a slow-lifestyle journey. The seven cities, including Hengyang, Yongzhou, Guilin, Liuzhou, Laibin, Nanning and Chongzuo, will grasp the opportunities upon the opening of the high-speed railway, which offers a "golden path" for tourism.The seven cities in the alliance nominated their typical scenic spots for unified promotion. The first batch of scenic spots to be promoted includes Hengyang's Shigu (Stone Drum) Academy, Yongzhou's Jiuyishan Mountain, Guilin's Xiangbizui (Elephant Trunk) Hill, Liuzhou's Miao Village, Laibin's Great Gorge, Nanjing's Jiulong Waterfalls and Chongzuo's Youyi (Friendship) Gate. According to the alliance agreement, after the opening of the Hunan-Guangxi High-speed Railway, these seven cities are supposed to set up tourism service centers at the stations to promote the scenic spots and release important tourism events.Translator: Wang XiaoluSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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The Third China Venture Capital Forum, organized by the Financial Affairs Office of Hunan Provincial People's Government and Securities Times and undertaken by the Hunan High-Tech Venture Capital Co., Ltd. (HTVC), was held in Changsha. Representatives from domestic renowned venture capital organizations aired views on low carbon economy, urbanization, the changes in technology, media, and telecom, etc.According to the speech delivered by Vice Governor of Hunan Province Sheng Maolin at the forum, more than 30 Hunan-based enterprises had realized private equity financing of 1.5 billion yuan by the end of this August. There are now over 300 venture capital enterprises in Hunan, with the registered capital exceeding 50 billion yuan.Since this year, Hunan has taken various measures to vigorously develop venture capital. A series of major project matchmaking events have been carried out, including the Training on the Overseas Listing of Hunan Enterprises in 2013 and the 2013 Forum on the Investment of Hunan Potential Enterprises for Going Listed.At the awarding ceremony held on the same day, President of the HTVC Huang Ming was crowned as China's Venture Capital Figure, and the HTVC was honored as the Most Competitive Venture Capital Institution.The Third China Venture Capital Forum is hosted in Changsha.Sheng Maolin, vice governor of Hunan Province, delivers a speech at the forum.Translator: Lv XuefenSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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The opening ceremony of the 2013 China Shimen Citrus Festival was held on September 13, 2013 on the Orange Isle in Changsha. It is the first time that Shimen County (in Changde, Hunan) celebrates the citrus festival outside the county availing the opportunity of Hunan Tourism Commodities Exposition to let more people learn about Shimen County and its citrus.New promotion channels such as e-commerce platforms on websites like New Countryside (nc.mofcom.gov.cn), Supply and Marketing Cooperatives of Shimen County (shimen.coop168.com) and Shimen Citrus (www.shimenganju.com) were opened on the same day to further upgrade the citrus marketing platform and allow online purchase.Shimen County is the major production base of citrus in Hunan. The county’s citrus planting covers an area of 440,000 mu (about 29,333 hectares). Its annual production stands at 400,000 tons and the fruit has been exported to 16 provinces and municipalities nationwide and to nearly 30 overseas countries and regions like Russia, Canada and South Korea. The annual citrus festival has been held for 12 successive years since 2011. It functions as an effective platform for promoting Shimen County and marketing its citrus. Translator: Wang BilianSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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The First Dongjiang Lake International Folk Song Festival unveiled its curtain on the evening of September 12, 2013 on the Dongjiang Cultural Plaza of Zixing, Chenzhou. The event gathered 13,000 joyful audiences who cheered to the accompaniment of powerful rhythms of gong and drum from time to time.The four-day festival is organized by market operation for the first time in Zixing City.  Artists from 10 countries like France, Canada, Indonesia, Thailand and North Korea will put on performance.The first overseas performance received warm applause when 10 French actors showed up on the stage, dressed up as "clowns". Their exaggerated facial expression and variant postures entertained the audience, like a breeze of French flavor sweeping over the whole place. Audience waved the light sticks and replied with "Oh-la-la".A group of young boys from Congo, dressed in vibrant traditional costumes, presented the magical customs and practices of African with their bold and powerful hot dance. The audience joined the "dance and wave", pushing the atmosphere to its climax.Performers from Canada, Indonesia, Thailand and North Korea also staged wonderful shows, winning acclamation from overwhelmed viewers.Translator: Wang BilianSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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The comprehensive planning outline of the Hengshan Mountain Tourism Economic Circle was revealed at the end of August, which marks the project's entering into the actual operation phase.The circle aims to build a comprehensive tourism pattern with one mountain, one river and one city integrated harmoniously. With Hengshan Mountain as the lead, Xiangjiang River the linkage, Hengyang's urban area the center, the tourism pattern is to radiate other counties and cities in Hunan.Its construction will integrate tourism resources of districts, counties and cities in the area, and plan tourism development in this region as a whole, forging it into a comprehensive tourism circle integrating religion culture experience, ecological leisure vacation and recreational sports. In this way, the transformation and upgrade of the tourism from "sightseeing products" to "leisure-vacation compounding products", and from Hengshan Mountain tourism's absolute leading to Hengshan Mountain tourism and city tourism's joint leading can be realized.According to Director of the Hengyang Municipal Tourism Bureau Peng Youping, a batch of key tourism projects including the Hengshan Agricultural Leisure Sight-seeing Park and the Hengshan Bamboo Sea has already signed contracts. Besides, the development of the Hengyang section of the Xiangjiang River is developing steadily. He said that the economic circle is expected to meet International tourism service standards, with its industrial scale, structure, service quality and comprehensive profits reaching advanced level in world tourism.Translator:Hao JingruSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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The 2013 China Hunan International Tourism Festival and & Hunan Tourism Industry Expo was unveiled in the Folk Culture Park of Orange Isle on the morning of September 12.Changsha major Mayor Zhang Jianfei expressed his sincerely welcomed to the festival to be staged in Changsha  and addressed that Changsha, as a happy city with beautiful sceneries, long history and unique cultures, , Changsha is an good ideal place for high-quality tourism and relaxation. This The festival, themed "Splendid Hunan and & Happy Changsha", will plays a significant role in presenting Hunan's beauty and its new tourism concept.The pictures about Hunan's famous scenic spots are exhibited at the opening ceremony. The Tourism Industry Expo, with the exhibitions of Hunan's cities and prefecture in each itsthe pavilions, will would initiate a series of activities such as the "Fresh Discovery of Hunan's Intra-county Tourism", the Photography Exhibition of Hunan's Tourism, the Happy Hunan Show, the Promotion of Counties with Powerful Tourism Industry, tourism-themed performances and as well as the Tourism Investment and Financing Forum. Except for the opening ceremony held in Changsha, other 12 featured activities including Junshan Festival of  Love Culture Festival, Ziquejie Terrace Festival and Zhangjiajie International Country Music Week will would be launched simultaneously in other cities and prefecture in Hunan.Translator: Wang XiaoluSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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“Going to Tibet in motors will be the most unforgettable memory in my life!” exclaimed from Shuangqi Liu who just came back to Zhangjiajie from Tibet on September 10. Excitements express in his face when he talks about riding motor toTibetalone. It is said Shuangqi Liu set out from Wulingyuan on August 26 and arrived in the Potala palace inLhasacity on September 7 after a twelve-day journey across five provinces. The whole journey covers 3,000 km. Then he came back to Zhangjiajie by air on September 9th.Shuangqi Liu, 24 years old, works in Zhangjiajie Charming Western Hunan Grand Theater and likes playing computers and riding motors. Traveling to Tibet is his biggest dream. He set out on August 26th and started his single journey after made farewell to his families. He says it was planed to take 5 days to arrive in Tibet, but there were many road repairs and it became more difficult to walk with the altitude increased; besides his motor broke down in Sichuan and he bought a new one to resume his journey, thus it took 12 days to arrive in Tibet. “Tough as it is, I met with many motor-cyclers and recommended ZJJ’s beautiful scenery to them, so I am very happy!” indicates Shuangqi Liu.Shuangqi Liu says frankly he will work hard in his future work and expresses his gratitude to the support from his families and friends. He also wishes to set up a reception station for motor-cyclers, offering more convenience to national motor-cyclers’ traveling to Zhangjiajie.By Crystal

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On September 9th, the Asian Spiderman Tongxing Li who once unarmed bare-handed climbed the summit of Mount Tianzhu in Anhui;and now successfully climbs the fifty-meter water cliff in ZJJ Wulingyuan Baofeng Lake and comes back to the start point unarmed, becoming the first man that makes a round-trip climb of the water cliff.By Crystal

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The press conference of 2013 Zhangjiajie International Forest Protection Festival is held in Changsha on 10th September.P Daily,CCTV, Xinhua Agency and other media have arrived in the scene.2013 zhangjiajie international forest protection festival will being launched in Zhangjiajie National Forest Park on October 12th. So far, Zhangjiajie “Forest Protection Festival” has been successfully held the 17th session siince the first one held in 1991.“Green love, Beautiful homeland” is the theme of this forest protection festival.It is said, The opening ceremony and movie Dream of Zhangjiajie will be shown on October 12th.By Aileen

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