As Canada Banff Mountain Film Festival draws to a successful end, A good news comes that the documentary, ZJJ Tianmenshan on 2011 Wing outfit Flight through Tianmen Mount has been awarded the Best Feature. It has been the first time for documentary on extreme sports held in China to win such a prominent prize.Banff Mountain Film Festival, Which began in 1976, is held on the first weekend of November each year at the Banff Centre. Banff Mountain Film Festival has gathered all the wonderful movies about outdoor culture around the world, covering the topics including outdoor adventure, extreme sports, mountain culture, the environment and “The world’s last uncharted land. Known as Oscar in the field of outdoor documentary”, It is the world’s most famous outdoor film festival as well as the world Documentary Film vane.Annual selection of the best works will go on tour in more than 30 countries mainly in Europe and America. By then, hundreds of millions of viewers around the world will be able to enjoy a fantastic wing mounted flight recorder blockbusters, at the same time appreciate the splendid scenery in Zhangjiajie, especially a magnificent Tianmen Mount through a unique perspective.By Brenda

News 2013-11-03 21:52 View：836

A few days ago, Jishou Aizhan Forest Park has been promoted to Hunan Aizhai National Forest Park. This is the first national forest park in Jishou city. At the same time, It is the third national forest park after Fenghuang Nanhua Mountain and Yongshun Buermen in Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture.Hunan Aizhai National Forest Park mainly consists of 3 independent districts Aizhai, Hong Mountain and Shenao. The overall planning area of this park is about 3383.5 hectares. Among it, Aizhai occupies about 1419.9 hectares, Hong Mountain occupies about 1428.0 hectares and Shenao takes for about 535.6 hectares. Area of forest land covers about 3075.7, which makes the forest overage rate 87.1%. Generally speaking, Hunan Aizhai National Forest Park is a mountain valley typed forest park that integrates “Special villages, Special bridges, Special stones and Special customs”.Particular climate there makes Hunan Aizhai National Forest Park own dense woods, abundant plant covers and multiple species. Successful promotion of Aizhai Forest Park drives the popularity of JishouCity and offers a higher platform for creating a new ecological city.Translated by Becky

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Known from Hunan Cultural Relics Bureau, Hunan Government recently published the fourth batch of provincial historical and cultural towns and villages, Including 4 towns, 30 villages and 1 historical and cultural block.Historical and cultural towns and villages all belong to precious non-renewable resources. Selected towns are Tantou Town and Simenqian Town in Longhui County, Lixiqiao Town in Suining County and Jinhe Town in Mayang County. There are 30 selected villages, including Chongmudang Village in Longhui County, Pingtan Village and Yutou Village in Dong Autonomous County of Tongdao, Laosicheng Village and Shuangfeng Village in Yunshun County ect. Besides, Tangshi Street in Dongping Town, Anhua County was selected as historical and cultural block.As reported, These historical villages, block and towns will be protected on the basis of conservation regulation of historical villages and towns.Translated by Becky

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Recently, Rucheng County of Chenzhou City is positively preparing for Reshui Tang River’s establishment of national scenic spot.This year, Chenzhou City concentrated on building “China hot spring city”, Especially Rucheng hot spring. Financing 0.52 billion yuan on bettering environment, facility near hot spring. At the same time, They also integrated surrounding reservoirs, Huangdong sea of bamboos and other tourist resources in order to move toward the goal of declaring national scenic spot.Planning area of Reshui Tang River covers about 108 square kilometers. On December, 2012, it ascended provincial scenic spot. Reshui Tang River scenic spot has abundant tourist resources, including the maximum water temperature, fastest flow of water, best water quality, and widest area.At present, Exploited scenic spots in this area mainly includes 4A rated Fuquan mountain villa, Reshui river drifting, spring cultural park and so on.Translated by Becky

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Recently, Source from E-PAL has released that Aizhai Bridge has been written into middle school geography teaching material. On Oct 25th, Experts from Xiangxi Prefecture Teaching Academy confirm this new.In the Geography teaching material for Hunan version of eighth grade that approved in 2013, There are distinctive pictures of Aizhai Bridge in the first quarter of China Landform of the second chapter of China Natural Environment, Namely the 28th page. There are introductions on the geographic position and basic situations of the bridge below the picture. Finished at the end of March, 2012, Aizhai Bridge is located in Aizhai Town, Jishou City, Hunan. It spans across Dehang Grand Canyon, with 330 meters of relative height difference from the bridge floor to the valley bottom. Besides, the main span of the suspension bridge is 1,076 meters, Acting as the key link of collecting Hunan and Chengdu and Chongqing transportation. Its settle-up creates “Four world tops” and is regarded the longest-span steel truss girder suspension bridge ascross valley in the world. Since its operation, it improves the local transportation and attracts more domestic and foreign tourists for sightseeing, Becoming a major attraction for tourism in Xiangxi.Source from:Hunan Tourism Bureau websiteBy Crystal

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In order to make profound exploration of the Culture & Tourism brand of Tianmen Fox Fairy, Strengthen Culture & Tourism performance industry and take pains to promote and build up the new image and posture for Tianmen Fox Fairy, On Oct 31st, ZJJ Tianmen Fox Fairy Culture & Tourism Co., ltd. Initiates the slogan-solicitation activity, hoping to attract more domestic and foreign tourists to pay visit to ZJJ for enjoying the colorful culture and natural tourism resources by the activity.As the first landscape live-action music and dance drama with completed plots in the world, Tianmen Fairy Fox New Liuhai Cutting Firewood has been played for over 1,100 times since its first public show in 2009. less than four years, it has been honored the benchmark for domestic large live-action performance, as well as prized National Tourism Contribution Golden Medal, China International Culture & Tourism Performance Golden Award and Hunan Famous Trademark, which creates the miracle for ZJJ to develop culture & tourism brand.It is reported the slogan-solicitation activity sets one winning prize, ten finalists, ten prizes for participation with lucrative prizes. Warmly welcome contributions from these who love live-action performance.By Crystal

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The 9th Hunan-Taiwan Financial Cooperation Forum was unveiled in Changsha on November 1. Distinguished guests from across the Taiwan Straits including Governor of Hunan Province Du Jiahao, Vice President of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) Li Yafei and member of the Standing Committee of the Kuomintang Central Committee Hong Yu Cin attended the Forum.After the opening ceremony, 13 contracts, totaling 3.596 billion USD, were signed in agriculture, cultural creativity, electronic information, mechanical manufacture and infrastructure construction. 26 projects were introduced and 4 billion USD were attracted.The three-day forum features the business cooperation between Hunan and Taiwan, the exchange between the two sides, and the inspection and cultural visits in Hunan. During the period, the headquarter building for Taiwan businessmen laid its foundation stone and ceremonies were held to mark the signing of the headquarters project as well as the Jiulong Vegetable Research Center and Demonstration Base project. In terms of exchange and communication, forums including the Cultural Creative Industrial Cooperation Forum and the Modern Agriculture Cooperation Forum were held. The guests also had inspection visit to Hunan-Taiwan Jiulong Vegetable Research Center and Demonstration Base, some of Changsha's cultural scenic spots. Hunan-Taiwan cooperation will be further deepened to propel Hunan's new-type industrialization, new-type urbanization, agricultural modernization, informatization and "Two-Oriented" Society construction.Translator: ZhangshuSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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On November 1st, The world famous zhangjiajie had a rainy day. 120 water skiing athletes from Hong Kong, Beijing, Hunan and other places completed in Li river, Zhangjiajie. They will fight for the first prize of cyclotron, jumping, and barefoot nine projects. On that day, 2013, “Traffic cup” national water-skiing championship opened in Zhangjiajie, The game will continue until November 3rd.Translated by Sophia

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