A great gala of music and friendship by Chinese and American musicians was presented to Hunan audience at the Hunan Concert Hall on the evening of August 16. At 10 p.m., the 2013 International Orchestral Music Week hosted by Hunan Symphony Orchestra ended with a violin concerto of the famous Chinese song "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" (Chinese version of"Romeo and Juliet") by Michelle Hansen, a celebrated American violinist.The musical event was jointly forged by Hunan Symphony Orchestra and 17 noted American musicians. They staged 10 exchange performances within the past half month.Translator: Tang LiSource: hunan.gov.cn

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Hunan Travel Annals, compiled by Hunan Tourism Bureau, was officially published by China Travel & Tourism Press a few days ago. Covering a period of 61 years, from the year 1950 to 2011, it is the first report of its kind for the province. He Baoxiang, vice-governor Hunan, honored the book by writing its preface himself.With altogether over 880,000 Chinese characters in the book, its compilation took four years. . With annals like writing style, the book is supplemented by statements, records, figures and charts, etc. Subjects in the book are classified based on events. Presenting Hunan's tourism resources, planning, construction, market, services and management, education, training and scientific research, administrative institution and spiritual civilization, with seven pieces of articles, the 37 chapters in the chronicle objectively and comprehensively record the great progress achieved towards Hunan's tourism reform and development since the founding of the New China.The Hunan Tourism Annals not only systematically and comprehensively collects a fortune of spiritual tourism civilization, but also provides reliable historical facts, abundant and vivid materials for employees in the tourism system to understand, promote and use effectively to develop Hunan tourism. It plays an important role in promoting the construction of a province with strong tourism industry.Translator: He YaoSource: hunan.gov.cn

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The Changsha Municipal People’s Government and the Singapore Construction Bureau signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on green building and green ecological city construction on August 16. According to the MOU, both parties will carry out extensive exchange and cooperation in such fields as city planning, ecological city construction, technology promotion and application of green building. Through the promotion of communication, training, technology introduction and cooperation in demonstrative project development, the two sides will share the modern concept and technology in green construction to promote Changsha’s capability of green construction and green ecological city planning. Translator: Zhang Shu Source: changsha.gov.cn 

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Those Who Won the Awards of The National Scenery Photography Competition Will Get “Access Card ” from China Photographers AssociationOn August 13, the tourism administration of ZJJ Wulingyun releases that those who won the awards of the third ZJJ-Wulingyuan National Scenery Photography Competition will become the members of China Photographers Association.Sponsored by the people’s government of ZJJ Wulingyuan and the management office of ZJJ National Forest Park, and organized by Pop Photo periodical magazine and tourism administration of ZJJ Wulingyuan, the third ZJJ-Wulingyuan National Scenery Photography Competition lasted for one year with a total rewards of 403,000RMB for 185 photography works. These 185 photography works is a key requirement for joining China Photographers Association.Except this, preferential policy on ticket and transportation are also offered to the photographers who took the contest: the members from China Photographers Association can visit the core scenic spots without charge with exhibitor cards and their membership card(From July 1,2013 to June 30,2014); other photography group (including photography forum on the Internet) can apply to tourism administration of ZJJ Wulingyuan, and the members of the presidium can enjoy the policy A after approval.More preferential policy on the issue, please consult the tourism administration of ZJJ Wulingyuan. Hope you a happy visit in Zhangjiajie.By Crystal

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Changde is usually acknowledged by people as a city of gourmet like rice noodle and spicy food. Still, there exists rare natural sight view as well. Today, I will take you to appreciate amazing rocks in Baaroque Rock Ditch.Baaroque Rock Ditch, located in Xianchi Mountain near Huayan Stream scenic zone in Changde, is as long as five to six miles. Spring out from rock gap and underwater merging into a verdurous stream flows along ditch sometimes with sound of tricklet and sometimes with ding-dong sound. In Baaroque Rock Ditch, another rare view in Huayan Stream scenic zone, is a amazing land where scatters various strange and interesting rocks. Some rocks look like elephant’s nose (Trunk Rock), some like huge frog (Frog Rock), some like Leopard’s head (Leopard Rock), some like lover leaning against each other (Lover’s Rock), some like golden pheasant arrogantly standing straight (Golden Pheasant Rock) and so on. Walking into Baaroque Rock Ditch is just like into a natural park of rare rocks.Baaroque Rock Ditch, a land which people will marvel at the splendid art of natural sculpture, will definitely light your imagination.By Patricia

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Maocong River,situated in Dashuao Village,Zhijiang County, is over 40km away from Zhijiang County, 80km from Huaihua City and 100km from Tongren City in Guizhou. The river, just clear as crystal, winds along wild and flat river courses amid amazing mountains. River course covered by flourish forest and singing birds smelling fragrance of flowers match perfectly to make here a wonderful place for rafting. After thrilling and cool rafting, relaxation in farm yard, appreciating countryside view and ancient trees, rock climbing are also good choices for you.At the very start point of Maocong River Rafting, rafting tank, as the nation-wide unique double channels of rafting tank with staggered floor is built to make the rafting more speeding and irritative. Rafting on Maocong River, you will be immersed in the romance of primitive nature. The rafting path, as long as 8km, will bring you to appreciate Lover’s Shoal,Hanging Bridge, Dragon Pond, Flying Stone, Tiger Leaping Gorge, Guling Rock and so on along your rafting. It’s really a fantastic experience.By Patricia

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Amazing Pictures…Some places to see before we get old!Ghar Baithe duniya dekho.Impressive Highways system above the Rainforest in Sao Paolo, BrazilDinner in the sky in Brussels, BelgiumBeijing International Airport,

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There are lots of matters requiring attention when traveling, health protection is one of them. To have a good time, it is important to keep fit both physically and mentally, here are some suggestions as follows:

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The Xiang school puts much emphasis on the appropriate combination of different foods and delicacy of shapes within dishes, as well as the mixing of ingredients and how flavors are combined. Xiang dishes especially emphasize sour and spicy flavors. As early as the Western Han dynasty, a variety of cooking techniques had been used in cooking Xiang dishes, such as, toasting, mincing, boiling, and salting and now chefs are especially skilled at the technique of simmering when cooking Xiang dishes.

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The Wulingyuan Scenic and Historic Interest Area is in the third uplifted zone of the Neocathaysian structural system. Throughout the long geologic history, it has roughly experienced the Wuling-Xuefeng, Indosinian, Yanshan, Himalayan, and neotectonic movements. Among them, the Wuling-Xuefeng movement laid the basic structure of this area, the Indosinian movement shaped the basic geomorphic framework and the Himalayan and neotectonics movements were the most basic internal factors for the formation of the rare karst formation in the Wulingyuan area.

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