Jishou Municipal Tourism Bureau of Xiangxi Tujia & Miao Autonomous Prefecture announced that Jishou was crowned as one of the Top Ten Tourism Destinations with Folk Characteristics in Greater China, an item of the Golden Travel Award of Asian Tourism at the 19th Golden Travel Award of Asian Tourism & the Conference of Tourism and Culture Award in Greater China.Mainly hosted by the Federation Asia Traveling Culture and held for 19 times since 1995, the Golden Travel Award of Asian Tourism is now one of the important awards in Asian-Pacific tourism circle. The award ceremony turns into a top class Asian travel award ceremony and a high-level platform for brand communication.With the ceremony themed "Chinese Style & Chinese Affection", its organization committee assessed 149 national scenic spot candidates through their environment, distinctive culture, leisure lifestyle, natural scenery, environmental protection, management innovation, supporting services, guiding brands, responsibility assumption and talent management. Jishou stood out after five procedures of local or organizational recommendation, parent organization nomination, online voting, and experts scoring.Translator: Zhu MengxiaSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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Wang Chengjie, deputy director of the CCPIT Legal Affairs Department, and Huang Fang, vice president of the CCPIT Hunan Sub-council, confer the plate to the agent of Certificate of Origin in Zhangjiajie. According to the plate-conferring ceremony of Zhangjiajie agent of Certificate of Origin (CO) held on the morning of September 5, the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) has authorized CCPIT Zhangjiajie City Branch to officially provide CO service for export products in accordance with relevant regulations. From now on, enterprises in Zhangjiajie can apply for CO directly at home. Certificate of Origin (CO) is one of the important certificates for enterprises to export their products, also known as the “economic nationality” and “passport” of export products in international trade. The setup of the agent of Certificate of Origin in Zhangjiajie will greatly save the cost and time for enterprises to get CO and shorten customs clearance time for export products. It plays an important role in improving the city’s foreign trade environment, optimizing investment environment, actively undertaking industrial transfer, and speeding up the development of open economy. Translator: Yang Chengfei Source: Hunan Official Web Portal

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You can easy get changsha south station from wuhan(wuchang) by high-rail train(about 1 hour dirve),then taxi to changsha western bus staion from changsha south train station(about 40 minutes taxi dirve),and then 4 hours regluar bus dirve to zhangjiajie city from changsha western bus station.

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Unique Mei river scenic spot, “King of Medicine Mount”–Longshan national forest park, “Millennium ancient town”–former home groups of Hunan Army…These scenic spots and essences of cultural heritages are taken into shot by The Home Village Column of CCTV, as its materials of feature film. According to Moqifeng, the scenarist of the column, this program has come to the last period of production and will present soon before.The materials gathering for Home Village feature film lasts for 39 days from July 23 to August 30, including 23 days fro field shot.Five people including the scenarist joins the shot and over 2,000 crews, assistant personnel and figurants from Lianyuan city take part in the shot. There are 300 scenes and 4,000 sets of shots with a total camera time of 972 minutes.According to Mo qifeng, it is planed to shot for ten days with the Mei river scenery and folk customs as major parts.“But when explore the sites, we discover that the natural scenery and folk culture there are worth recommending, so our shot fields are expanding with the ultimate 13 scenic regions, 120 scenic spots, 12 intangible cultural heritages and folk cultures, which turn the materials into a sixteen-hour film.”It is reported that it is not the first time for The Home Village Column of CCTV to come to Lianyuan. It broadcasted Three Odds of Yang jia tan and Millennium Ancient Town Yangjiatan on April 16 and August 6 respectively, which arose unprecedented attention to Lianyuan’s beautiful natural scenery and massive folk culture by different social circles.Besides, Home Village Column will offer these materials that gathered in Lianyuan this year to Lianyuan city for making tourism image advertising video freely.By Crystal

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On September 3, Ronghua, The district committee secretary of Beijing Shijingshan district along other seven personnel come to Zhangjiajie for survey. They conduct informal discussion and field trip on scene dictrict program, development and construction, operation management and operate mode. Relevant officers from Zhangjiajie attend the forum.At the afternoon of September 3, Shijingshan District·ZJJ held a friendly forum on work communication. In the forum, Dengjian, vice-governor of Zhangjiajie introduces the basic information of Wulingyuan to the visiting group in terms of scene management system, natural heritage protection and tourism development. Sishangguo, The vice-chairman of Shijingshan district CPPCC, presents the basic information of Shijingshan district in terms of effective integration of resources, discovery of history and culture and the formation of industry chain. The two parties carry out large contacts on tourism trend, difficulty of development and future direction. Chen Danfeng, member of Zhangjiajie’s standing committee and deputy mayor elaborates on Zhangjiajie’s future outlook on development, and gives successful tourism marketing cases.During the three-day trip, The personnel from Beijing pay field trips to Tianzi Mount, Yuanjiajie, Golden Whip Stream, Gaint-salamander museum, Yellow Dragon cave, Bao feng Lake and Tianmen Mount, and appreciate the Charming Western Hunan and Tianmen Fairy Fox–New Liuhai Chops firewoods.By Crystal

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At 6:00PM September 4th, The five-day 2013 ZJJ music week draws its curtains in the Charming Western Hunan Grand Theater. Compared with the former two music weeks, The 2013 music week especially sets up “The Five Continents Star”, of which the Asilong twins from Yunan, China, A dance from Serbia, African drum band, Tango dance team from Argentina and The hollow pander Jeans band respectively win these prizes.Leaderships from relevant sectors attend the closing ceremony and issue the trophies for the winning bands.On the award ceremony, The Mao guse version–Gangnam Style with features from Zhangjiajie’s ethnic nationalities provokes large cheers once its show. After that, the winning Canadian Mount band, Italian Umbria dance center, African drum band and Ghost Face band present their excellent shows. Especially the Stars Gather in Zhangjiajie created by African drum band for the music week brings in prolonged applauses and puts the ceremony to a new high.Since the opening ceremony in August 31, the music week, themed with“The natural heritages of the world,the country music of us”, Receives 22 foreign bands from 20 countries and 8 domestic bands. In the five days, near 300 bandsmen present 32 music feasts in six major scenic spots. Per incomplete statistics, about 100,000 tourists both from home and abroad visit Zhangjiajie and listen to the country music.Held biyearly, ZJJ international country music week was initiated in 2009. Ye wenzhi, the originator of ZJJ international country music week, indicates he hopes to turn the music week into a permanent music week through 3 or 5 times, building Zhangjiajie into a holy place of the international country music week for all the people around the world.By Crystal

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Since 2nd September, The flights from Zhangjiajie to Nanjing have restarted. During this July and August,the flights have been canncelled for the operation adjustments.By report, the restarted flights will be on operate for every day.With the number of  CZ3925, the flight sets off at 20:53 in Zhangjiajie Lotus Airport and arrives at Nanjing at 22:25.The returen flight starts at 23:15 and reaches at Zhangjiajie at 00:55 the next morning with the number of CZ3926.The price of this flight is 940 per person at present, individual travelers can enjoy forty percent discount preferencial tickets. The officical website csair.com or service line 95539 is accessible for every travler for tickets booking.By Aileen

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Chinese like red color very much. At festivals or great ceremonies, they prefer to wear red clothing. Even if some people don’t like red, they also choose brightly-colored clothes. In their mind, red symbolizes luck and fortune; only bright colors can match the atmosphere of festivals. If you travel to the country or visit your Chinese relatives during the Spring Festival, please prepare some brightly-colored coat in advance. This is so-called “When in Rome, do as Romans do”.

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There are many Bai people in Zhangjiajie, which makes Bai nationality one of the main nationalities in Zhangjiajie. What kind of local characteristics of wedding customs does Bai nationality there share?

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Twice-cooked pork is a Special Sichuan Cuisine but has a warm welcome in zhangjiajie. It is red and green in color, rich in taste. The pork slices in it is fat but not greasy.

2013-05-15 21:40 View：3783