Photo taken on Nov. 25, 2013 shows the scenery of Biancheng Town in mist, central China's Hunan Province.Photo taken on Nov. 24, 2013 shows the night scenery of Biancheng Town, central China's Hunan Province.Photo taken on Nov. 24, 2013 shows the scenery of Biancheng Town in sunset, central China's Hunan Province.Local residents do laundry by the Qingshui River in Biancheng Town, central China's Hunan Province, Nov. 14, 2013.Photo taken on Nov. 24, 2013 shows the scenery of Biancheng Town, central China's Hunan Province.Source:Xinhua

News 2013-11-26 16:36 View：1346

Eighteen National key Cultural Relics Protection Buildings are located in the Hongjiang Ancient Commercial Town, whose core area is mainly to protect cultural relics.Located in Hongjiang District of Huaihua City in Hunan Province, the tourism project of Hongjiang Ancient Commercial Town is included in the sixth batch of the National Key Cultural Relics Protection Units granted by the State Council, as well as the key projects of Hunan’s major tourism “251 Program”, which is designed to fund 20, 50 and 100 tourism projects respectively at the provincial, municipal, and county level. The project of Hongjiang District, with an investment of five billion yuan, is scheduled to be finished before 2020. Its total development area reaches 1.69 square meters, covering 1.2 square kilometer of the core area and 5.3 square kilometers of the Chuanyan New District. Focusing the town and expanding to the Chuanyan New District, the project will develop a cultural tourism space by gradually renovating traditional streets and lanes, restoring them back to the original glory. Hongjiang is expected to forge the “first ancient commercial town in China” featured by revitalized economy, advanced tourism, harmonious society, sustainable ecology and attractive culture.Translator: Zhu MengxiaSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

News 2013-11-26 16:28 View：911

Since Nov, A strong autumn atmosphere has prevailed in Yellow Dragon Cave Ecological Square: Red maple leaf, yellow gingko and wall-scattered Boston ivy attract many a tourist for photographing and some photo studios are by chance to come to the square for shooting. According to official figures from the attraction site, since Nov, Yellow Dragon Cave has received near 50,000 tourists to enjoy the autumn scenery and visit the cave.It is reported with an area of 139 mu, Yellow Dragon Cave Ecological Square is designed by Yu kong jian, The dean of Architecture and Landscape Design Institute of Peking University and professor of HarvardUniversity. Besides, It was awarded the National Environmental Art Prize. The biggest feature of the square is its tradition combines modern and its humanity combines nature with the largest-scale recovery of Zhangjiajie farming culture.By Crystal

News 2013-11-25 14:01 View：2163

Construction of an international airport has started in Zhangjiajie City, famous for its world natural heritage site Wulingyuan, announced the Hunan Airport Group on Wednesday.Expected to open in 2015, the Lotus International Airport will be the second international airport in the central China's Hunan province.Located in the mountainous western part of Hunan, Zhangjiajie is home to the Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, recognized as China's first national forest park in 1982.The floating pillar-like formations and dense foliage in Zhangjiajie appeared in Hollywood blockbuster "Avatar" in 2010, which has further boosted its reputation as an international tourist destination.To cater to the tourist boom, the new airport has been designed to handle 5 million tourists a year, in addition to 19,000 tonnes of cargoes and mails.The current Lotus Airport built in 1994 only handles domestic flights.By 2015 and after a planned investment of 535 million yuan (87 million U.S. dollars), the new airport will cover a total area of 59,532 square meters, and be able to handle 45,000 flights a year.It is also expected to shore up economic development in Zhangjiajie's surrounding regions, where 71 counties are on China's poverty-stricken list.Source:Xinhua

News 2013-11-25 13:41 View：843

At 8:00 am, Nov 20th, Several shutterbugs shoot remnant temple, sunrise and hoodoo in ZJJ Wulingyuan Baofeng Mountain. It is reported except the rare “ZJJ Landform” scenery in Wulingyuan, The core scenic site is also bestowed with various outdoor travel resources, of which Baofeng Mountain is one of the most-favored destination among tour pals.The insider points out with the arise of the official implementation of Tourism Law and DIY tour, There is a promising future for outdoor tourism in Zhangjiajie with upcoming new opportunities. At present, Zhangjiajie is taking efforts to explore outdoor tourism resources and develop outdoor leisure and travel products.As a core travel area of Zhangjiajie, Wulingyuan not only takes pains to increase the general survey and protection on outdoor tourism resources, and also invites investors to come to Zhangjiajie for inspect and talk over on cooperation projects. On August, 2013, Wulingyuan People’s Government signed intentional cooperation agreement with Shenzhen Si-chuang-hui-ke Investment Co., ltd. Per the agreement, Shenzhen Si-chuang-hui-ke Investment Co., ltd will construct Wulingyuan International Comprehensive Tourism Culture Resort with an initial investment of about 2 billion RMB in Baofeng Mountain area. Since late Oct, Three groups of over 100 investors successively paid early inspection in White Tiger Hall and Thin Strip of Sky and other outdoor tourism resources.By Crystal

News 2013-11-24 14:03 View：1325

The Broad Homes Industrial Co., Ltd., a leading enterprise of China's industrialized construction, started to ship its complete houses at Chenglingji Port in Yueyang to Suriname in South America on November 18. The 18 thousand sets of complete houses, valued at four billion yuan, is undoubtedly a remarkable order of Hunan's import and export.In the first ten months this year, the total import and export volume of Hunan reached 19.14 billion USD, increasing by 20.5% year on year, of which 11.29 billion USD came from export with a growth of 27.5%.According to President of the Broad Homes Tang Fen, spare parts of the complete houses are usually assembled into building blocks for use only within one to two days, thoroughly changing the traditional construction pattern of using tiles and bricks by hand. The core competitiveness of this technology is high quality, favorable price, high efficiency, and green and environmental protection. Due to such technology, the industrialized green buildings made in China have been exported. In addition to Surinam, the complete housing projects are being promoted between the company and Brazil, Venezuela, the United States, as well as Russia.Translator: Lv XuefenSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

News 2013-11-24 13:40 View：648

“Harmonious and happy homeland of shaddock, gathering in Jiangyong”. The 2nd China Shaddock Festival & Agricultural product Fair Opening Ceremony in Nanling Region kicks off in Fenghuang Square of Jiangyong County on the morning of Nov 11th. About 30,000 people who come from HK, Taiwan, Macao, Hunan, Guizhou, Guangdong and Jiangyong County merrily gather in here to observe the harvest. Shi yan ping, the member of Yongzhou standing committee, Shu ping, the member of city standing committee, Zheng bo shun, the deputy director of municipal people’s congress and Zhou xiu ying, The vice chairman of municipal political consultative conference attend the activity.Situated in the southern border area of Xiangxi and Jiangyong is enrich in natural and cultural landscape and selenium. It is well-known by its thousands-year riddle of Jiangyong Nvshu, thousands-year of ancient village–Shang gan tang, Yao people’s honeland–“Qian jia dong” and as well as popular for “Five species in Jiangyong”. The county was honored successively “The Homeland of China Shaddock” and “The hometown of China henry steudnera tuber”.In order to enable tourists to feel the unique charm of Jiangyong’s specialty, like shaddock, the festival carries out a series of activities, such as “Three-thousand-year of culture” self-driving, Picking shaddock journey, and tasting shaddock in taking part in “Pomelo orchard fruit party” and “Shaddock sports meeting”, inducing tourists to be hooked.By Crystal 

News 2013-11-23 13:58 View：783

Recently, Lonely Planet (LP), The famous travelling book in the world appraises and elects the 2014 global top ten travel places, offering new directions for people who are searching the best travel destinations in their 2014. Among the top ten destinations, The natural scenery and humanistic connotation enchant LP’s travel experts.Hunan becomes China’s only province that selected into LP.LP’s remark is: Hunan, China: the next hot travelling destination.Bestowed with incomparable scenery, rich cultural connotation, some remote places of Hunan have not received much attention from the rest of world. Decades of years ago, Its northwest mountains were known among the local minorities. But now, a new-type transportation network that connected by high-speed rail, high expressway and non-stop flights facilitates domestic and foreign cities to arrive cities in Hunan. City of Sky, the highest skyscraper in the world and the first phase of the Changsha metro that covered large scale will be finished in 2014. The province that combined tradition and modern together may serve the reason for your journey.Source from: Changsha Tourism Bureau WebsiteBy Crystal

News 2013-11-23 13:57 View：747