The Hunan Province Foreigner Photo Contest, undertaken by the Hunan Official Web Portal,As part of the 2nd Online Hunan Culture Festival  is to be launched from November 25th to December 15h, 2013undertaken by the Hunan Official Web Portal. ,The Contest, as part of the 2nd Online Hunan Culture Festival, is the only activity held for international friends working, studying, living and traveling in Hunan. It will offer a stage for them  the Hunan Province Foreigner Photo Contest is to be launched from November 25th, 2013 to Decmeber 15h. It will provide a stage for international friends to express their thoughts and views through art, voice their stories and share their feelings concerning life in Hunan,express their feelings and views through photographing art, communicate and strengthen their connection with Hunan, and further promote Huxiang culture to the world.Several events will be held during the Photo Contest including Hunan photography expedition toursphotography vacations throughout Hunan, international photography salonsinternational photo gallery showings, awards ceremony, photo exhibitions and more! 100 international friends will be invited to take a tour and have the opportunity to take photosexpedition tours to in famous tourist attractions, historical sites, leading enterprises, characteristic industries, and new towns around Hunan during Nov. 25 to Dec. 15. During the international photography salons, participants, local photographers and netizens will be invited to share photography skills together. Submitted photography will be showcased at photo galleries throughout the province. Contest participators, local photographers and netizens are invited to attend the events.On the morning of October 30, 2013, the Second Online Hunan Cultural Festival opened kicked off in Changsha. Seventeen internet cultural activities such as a series of activities related to "My Chinese Dream--- Dreaming Hunan" have been launched. The photo contest is the second internet time theme activity undertaken for by Hunan Official Web Portal to undertaken the activity of the Second Online Hunan Cultural Festival. following Last year, it had successfully undertake the activity of "Selection of Top 10 Huxiang Cultural Events" held successfully in 2012.

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On November 21, the 2013 EU-China Urbanization Partnership Forum, themed "Exchange and Learning for Mutual Benefit and Win-Win Results", was held in the Golden Hall of the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. The forum was hosted by the National Development and Reform Commission of PRC and the Directorate-General for Energy of European Commission. Leaders from China and Europe such as Premier of the State Council Li Keqiang, President of the Council of Europe Herman Van Rompuy, President and Vice President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso and Siim Kallas attended the forum and delivered speeches. Changsha Mayor Zhang Jianfei was invited to the main forum.At the forum, the Changsha Municipal People's Government and the Embassy of Sweden in Beijing, China signed a letter of intent on further jointly strengthening urbanization cooperation, promoting discussion on the important trend in urbanization development, and seeking solutions to tackle urbanization challenges confronted by the two sides.Translator: Hao JingruSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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On Nov 21st, ZJJ People’s Government and France Dyane Mountain Tourism Planning and Design Co., Ltd, hold MOU signing ceremony, and start to carry out cooperation on expanding Zhangjiajie’s outdoor leisure and tourism, for building up Zhangjiajie into a international well-known outdoor leisure and tourism paradise. Chen danfeng, the member of Zhangjiajie standing committee and deputy mayor attends the ceremony.As a red-blooded new-type tourism model, developing outdoor leisure and tourism is an effective way to transform Zhangjiajie’s tourism, as well as a vital measure to realize the dream of tourism resort. On the ceremong, Chen dan feng and Olivie who is the ECO of France Dyane Mountain Design Office sign on the MOU.According to the MOU, the two parties will start extensive cooperation in outdoor leisure and tourism; France Dyane Mountain Tourism Planning and Design Co., Ltd, will formulate development planning for Zhangjiajie outdoor leisure and tourism and offer sustainable and effective assistance to the project; at the same time, France Dyane Mountain Tourism Planning and Design Co., Ltd, will recommend Zhangjiajie’s outdoor project to potential interested parties in France and Europe, which enhance the two parties’ exchanges and pave way for building friendly cities relation between Zhangjiajie and renown cities in Alps.By Crystal

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At 10:00 am, Nov 18th, in Pinglang Village, Jishou City, Xiangxi Tujia Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Wulingyuan(Xiangxi) Tujia Miao Culture Ecological Protection Zone Construction & Digital Protection for Autonomous Prefecture Intangible Cultural Heritage project officially initiates its boot ceremony.Warm sunshine shining in Dong River Valley, Festival atmosphere prevails in Pinglang Village, Jishou City, where Miao people settle in. Dressed in festival splendid attire, they beat the Miao drum and sing Miao songs. After a brief ceremony, under a citrus tree and on the beach of Dong River, the first digital protection national intangible cultural heritage project–“Xiangxi Miao Drum Dance” is recorded amid such original and ecological situation. Shi shun ming, The 64 year-old inheritor of national intangible cultural heritage project and the second-generation Miao “Drum King” gives the performance of “Celebrate the harvest”.In May, 2010, The national Ministry of Culture approved to set up “Wulingyuan (Xiangxi) Tujia Miao Culture and Ecology protection Pilot Zone”; In march 21st, 2013, The over-all planning of the protection pilot zone has pasted the accreditation by Ministry of Culture; there are 24 items from autonomous prefecture that selected into national intangible cultural heritage list and 62 items that selected into provincial list; There are 22 national representative inheritors and 44 provincial representative inheritors. In Nov this year, China Digital protection Center for Intangible cultural Heritage carried out the first group of digital protection pilot project, autonomous prefecture became the first one in these 13 pilots and also one of the pilot that has two prefecture-level digital protection pilots for intangible cultural heritage.Source from: Hunan DailyBy Crystal

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Hunan has been selected as one of the "Best in Travel 2014 - Top 10 Regions" by the world famous tourism book "Lonely Planet" (shorted as LP). It is the only listed region in China.Praising Hunan as "the next hot tourist destination", LP considers "Hunan has made itself accessible to cities at home and abroad via its new transportation network of high-speed railway, expressway and non-stop flight. The world's would-be tallest skyscraper Sky City and the phase one of the Changsha subway project are expected to be accomplished in 2014. The province, integrating tradition with modern elements, may not match with tourists' expectation of China, but it may also be the reason for a travel."The top ten tourist destinations include Sikkim of India, the Kimberley of Australia, Yorkshire of England, Hokuriku of Japan, Texas of USA, Victoria Falls of Zimbabwe and Zambia, Mallorca of Spain, West Coast of New Zealand, Hunan of China, and Ha'apai of Tonga.Translator: Zhu MengxiaSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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It has been over a month since the closing ceremony of third ZJJ International Music Week was held at Yellow Dragon Cave. Even though the Music Week has gone, flags of 23 countries still flutter in the ecological square of Yellow Dragon Cave, which forms a beautiful scene.At the entrance of Square of Yellow Dragon Cave, On the five propaganda column shows maps of five continents and 23 national flags stand upright beside the map. Especially under the background of green mountain and blue water, flags are sparkling under blue sky. At the same time, representative songs of different nations continuously played. What a harmonious scene!After the closing ceremony, the stage and other decorations were remained to let more tourist get close to and know more about Country Music Week. The International Country Music Week has successively held for three times. In the future, Zhangjiajie will be built into a holy land of international country music week every one yearns for.By Patricia

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Recently, The journalist has learned from the management office of ZJJ National Forest Park, ZJJ National Forest Park haa been approved the first pilot project of low carbon attraction in Hunan, which is also the one and only low carbon attraction pilot in Hunan.In recent years, In line with the principle of “Protection First, Development Second”, ZJJ National Forest Park has done many efforts on energy-saving, emission-reduction, ecological green-recovery, pollution treatment and reources protection, and carried out the integrated construction of ecologically civilized village and scenery-village, making a low carbon road.As a low carbon attraction pilot, The management office of ZJJ National Forest Park will put more emphasis on the follwing eight aspects in future:1.Build a standar system for low carbon development;2.Expand low carbon in architecture;3.Enhance low-carbon in transportation;4.Propel low-carbon in operation management;5.Highten the capacity of forest carbon-sink;6.Build diversitified low carbon development system;7.Innovate the development mechanism of new low-carbon;8.Reinforce the competence of low-carbon development.It is estimated by 2015, the management office of ZJJ National Forest Park will basically build a low-carbon development system in terms of regulations, policy, standards and technical manual; by 2020, it will perfect low-carbon development policy, low-carbon technology supporting, low-carbon development promotion, carbon-emission caculation, which enable Zhangjiajie to update its low-carbon attraction brand.By Crystal

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Broad Homes Industrial Co., Ltd, China's first new-type industrial enterprise approved by residential industry standard, started to ship its complete houses at Chenglingji Port in Yueyang City of Hunan Province to Suriname in South America on November 18. It marked the official penetration of industrialized building of Hunan and even China at large into the international market.Industrialized building is described as constructing houses like piling up building blocks. That is to say, balcony, stairs, wallboards and other components, which are prefabricated in factory, only need to be fixed at the specified situation at the construction site with machines. Empire State Building in the USA, Burj Dubai and Petronas Towers are masterpieces of industrialized building.With the drive of policies and constant emergence of enterprises of construction industrialization, export of building products will unavoidably be trendsetters in the flowing years. Zhang Jian, board chairman of Broad Homes Industrial Co., Ltd presents "key model" to the representative of Surinam Ivan Graanoogst.Complete housing created by Broad Homes officially starts shipment.Translator: Zhang Minsi Source: Hunan Official Web Portal

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