On the moring of Nov 18th, Journalist notices a busy scene in the construction site of ZJJ Charming Xiangxi Visitor Center: Several Grabs are excavating sands under the operation of artisians; shop trucks are orderly transporting to the outside after full of sands. ZJJ Charming Xiangxi Visitor Center was started at the end of Nov, 2013 and will be completed in Jan, 2015 with a total investment of 250 million RMB. It is one of the key projects in ZJJ Wulingyuan district.As a suppoting construction project of ZJJ Charming Xiangxi Cultural Square, ZJJ Charming Xiangxi Visitor Center is located in the convergence zone of Suoxi River, Wulingyuan downtown and Liujiaxi. It covers a site area of 160,000 sq.m and an area of construction of 180,000 sq.m (Including one ground floor of 120,000 sq.m), and is constructed by ZJJ Charming God Song Culture Co.,ltd and ZJJ Image Wuling Properties Co.,ltd. It is reported body building of ZJJ Charming Xiangxi Visitor Center falls into three floors (Including one ground floor), and is equipped with comprehensive functions such as parking, shopping, leisure and vocation, which is built in line with the principle of “Nationalization, Ecologicalization and perfection”. The visitor center can hold 150 large and small vehicles and is connected with the underpass of Xiangxi Grand Theater; Besides it is furnished with some sites with strong local color, such as “Inspire Xiangxi” water sports arena, “Charming Hunan Embroidery” culture experience pavilion. At that time, traffic jam during the performance of ZJJ·Charming Xiangxi will disappear, and a large-scale international tourism and leisure high-end place emerges.“Expand the brand effect of Charming Xiangxi, build up a brand complex of tourism and leisure in Wulingyuan with high-demanded standard” Remarks by general manager Huang zhenbang, ZJJ Image Wuling Properties Co.,ltd, “The operation of the project activate downtown water landscape by local cultural brand; combined with architecture features and river landscape, the large-scale commercial chain stores and renowned brand leisure and catering and high-end leisure club will be brought into ZJJ through professional management operation team”.Effect pictures of ZJJ Charming Xiangxi Visitor CenterBy Crystal

News 2013-11-17 23:58 View：881

A grand and graceful fresco was found in the Liren Lane of Hongjiang Ancient Commercial Town in Huaihua City, Hunan Province during the maintenance of an ancient building. The fresco is in the form of Character "Fu" (means "Fortune" in Chinese) which is composed by such animal paintings as magpies, red-crowned cranes, sika deer, and tortoises. Circled by 3 rings in the outer space and written in cinnabar on white background, the fresco is the 137th one found in the scenic spot and the largest and clearest one so far.According to Liang Bin, director of the Agencies of Historical Relics Preservation of Hongjiang District, the fresco has been preliminarily identified as a cultural relic of Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). The unparalleled fresco embodies a rosy prospect of "Hongfuqitian" (an idiom means being supremely fortunate, with a homophone of "Hong" as Hongjiang in the first word) with five implications of fortune, promotion, longevity, happiness, and wealth in the form of animal paintings. The fresco's creation is exclusive to Hongjiang Ancient Commercial Town, and is unique in the whole country.Translator: Li XuanSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

News 2013-11-17 22:44 View：678

The Korean-version Tourism Service Guide that jointly-printed by Zhangjiajie Huatian International Travel Agency and South Korea TOLO International Travel Agency is released in the customer market in South Korea.It is reported the first batch of over 10,000 Korean-version Tourism Service Guide is issued in 6,000 subordinate service websites of ZJJ Huatian International Travel Agency and South Korea TOLO International Travel Agency and parts of international airports and hotels. The guide is presented with Zhangjiajie scenic spot introduction, Main hotel display, Travel transportation guidance, Travel specialty shopping, Special catering and folk customs, Giving the South Korean tourists an all-round service guide in Zhangjiajie.Since 2001, South Korean markets has topped in Zhangjiajie’s overseas tourist market. In this year, in order to expand the customer market in South Korea, Zhangjiajie organizes a series of tourism promotion and exchange activity in South Korea and increases the density of direct charter flights between Zhangjiajie and South Korea. Since autumn, The “Enjoy the autumn outing” that put out by Zhangjiajie core scenic spots has received good graces among South Korean tourists, with over 30,000 South Korean tourists arrived in Wulingyuan just in Oct.By Crystal

News 2013-11-16 23:57 View：692

Recently, The world famous travel book Lonely Planet has selected 10 regions for best quality travel in 2014.Hunan·China with the scenic spots such as Zhangjiajie,Fenghuang city,Nanyue Mountain,Aiwan Pavillion,Hongjiang ancient city,Etc are on the top 10 list.The top 10 regions are Sikkim·India; Kimberley·Australia; Yorkshire·England; Hokuriku·Japan; Texas,America; Victoria Falls·Zimbabwe and Zambia;Majorca·Spain; West Coast·New Zealand; Hunan·China; Ha’apai·Tanga.By Aileen

News 2013-11-15 23:54 View：774

On Nov 12th, Sponsored by Wulingyuan district government and organized by Wulingyuan tourism bureau and international photography association, The activity “Focus on ZJJ·Thousands of Photographers Collect Photography for the New Year” officially is initiated.Since its carry out in July,“The 3rd ZJJ Wulingyuan National Scenery Photography Contest” has received near 20,000 excellent photography works from different places in China. In order to expand the influence of Photography, the sponsor hosts this photographer get-together and photography collection. At that time, except shoot in ZJJ Wulingyuan Tianzi Mount, Yuanjiajie, Yellow Stone Village, Golden Whip Stream, Yellow Dragon Cave and Baofeng Lake, These photographers will take part in the photographer get-together. There are lucky draw on the scene and folk customs performance by minorities. The activity embodies also International Photography Association 3rd Arts Awards Ceremony, the Award-winning Works Exhibition of the 1st and 2nd ZJJ Wulingyuan National Scenery Photography Contest and the 3rd Arts Award-wining Works Exhibition of the International Photography Association.Photography group and individual that has photography association membership in the global can be enrolled into the event. The registration time is: from Nov 12th, 2013 to Dec 31st; Registration way: LOG in the International Photography Association Offcial Website; contact numbers: 020-38665070、400-825-8388; Contact persons: Huang qing (13928716871)；Xiong zong xi, representative from International Photography Association in Zhangjiajie(18507447601)； Ku kai min, staff in the office from promotion management of ZJJ Wulingyuan tourism bureau( 0744-5611109 ).Zhao xunxin, the organizer of the photography collection and the chairman of the International Photography Association remarks, The event is planed to be held in Wulingyuan from Jan 5th, 2014 to Jan 9th, 2014. It is aimed to offer the majority of photographers with a sound platform to create good photography works in Zhangjiajie and enable all people to enjoy the charm of Zhangjiajie, with happiness and satisfaction.By Crystal

News 2013-11-15 23:53 View：661

On Nov. 11th, azalea whose flowering period is supposed to be in spring on Mount Tianzi has blossomed in this cold early winter, which has surprised a lot of tourists.Several branches of azalea on a peak of ZJJ Mount Tianzi is dotted with some colorful and lively buds, which is a pleasure to photographers’ eyes.According to the local Forestry Ministry, This out-of-season flowering is due to the mild climate in recent days which changed the growth cycle of Azalea,also called Rhododendron simsii, is a category of deciduous shrubs. With brilliant colors, it is beautiful both in leaves and flowers. There are around 900 kinds and China is the country with the largest azaleas, while Zhangjiajie Tianzishan is one of the best scenic spots to enjoy its beauty. After the Tomb Sweeping Day, The azaleas on Mountain Tianzi is in full blossom.By Brenda

News 2013-11-14 23:52 View：1943

On Nov 8th, Source from Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture Tourism Bureau has learned Xiangxi Luxi River enter into friendly counties and sign the friendly framework agreement.As counties that gathered mainly be national minorities, Jiuzhaigou Valley and Luxi River are united as friendly counties based on their beautiful natural scenery and pr found ethnic customs. Endowed with rich vegetation, gurgling stream, Jiuzhaigou Valley is the renowed attraction; while Luxi River is rich in extraordinary mount and river, with great men and natural beauty. With Yuan River flowing through the county, Luxi is the pilot county for national ecological construction and is reputed “Natural oxygen bar”. Now it is extending its Yuan River landscape belt “One city, one county, a river, a mountain”, for the purpose of eco-leisure travelling resort.The union between Luxi River and Jiuzhaigou Valley which is rich in developing travelling is bound to welcome one big leap for Luxi River’s tourism. Both of them will exchange experience and needed products to realize a win-win situation.Source from: Hunan Tourism Bureau WebsiteBy Crystal

News 2013-11-14 23:51 View：693

From Nov 8th to Nov 11th, The column crew from Shanghai Dragon TV–Happy Journey comes to Zhangjiajie for the special shooting of Wulingyuan core scenic spots. It is reported that An long, who is from Australia, will be the host of the feature film, which is planed to take the topic of Happy Journey in Zhangjiajie. After the post production, the film will be broadcast on the column of Getaway in Shanghai Dragon TV by Chinese and English languages.When they come to Wulingyuan, The camera crew pay visits to the major attractions for natural humanities landscapes, such as Tianzi Mount, Yuanjiajie, Yellow Stone Village, Golden Whip Stream, Baofeng Lake and etc; and make On-the-spot interview to Xiang zuorong, who is the folk song singer and inherits Zhangjiajie ethnic culture, and Xiang xiao wujia, which is devoted to developing Zhangjiajie’s local specialty. An long remarks, he had several times to shot programs in Zhangjiajie and thus has deep lot with it. Combined with the features of involvement, interaction and entertainment, The 25-minute feature film leads the audience to walk into Zhangjiajie and have a happy journey in here from the major factors: Catering, Lodging, Transportation, Travelling, Shopping and Entertainment.As a bilingual travelling and leisure program that put forward in 2003, The GETAWAY has the meaning of “Set off”. Its main content is self-driving travelling, combined with travelling, sightseeing and experiencing, with distinctive metropolis features and internationalism; its target audience are people with high education, high salary and high consumption and China foreign nations. Since its broadcast in the past ten years, it has become a brand program favored by audience from home and abroad, especially has good audience rating in Australia and Japan.By crystal

News 2013-11-13 23:49 View：766