On Oct 10th, as the order goes from the Shimen county clerk, 2013 China·Shimen Citrus Festival officially unveils its curtain in the sports center of Shimen. Since Shimen initiated its 1st China·Shimen Citrus Festival in 2001, celebrating the citrus harvest has become a happy feast for 700,000 citizens in Shimen.Themed with “My Citrus Festival” in this year, although lively atmosphere prevails in the crowd as the previous years, there are still some new changes in this year’s festival. “The festival is sponsored by Shimen county citrus association while the government backs to the curtain. There are no stars invited and the opening ceremony is not held in stared hotel” The activity person introduces, in line with the principle of “Economized Festival”, Shimen turns the citrus festival into a genuine “My Citrus Festival” by many activities such as orange farmers’ happy parade, Citrus King PK and Tujia cooking skill show.It is reported by the end of 2012, there are 40 citrus specialized cooperatives in Shimen with 7,471 memberships, which activates over 130,000 farmers. Since 2011, through citrus specialized cooperatives, Shimen has sold over 100,000 tons of citrus. Overcome the extreme drought against citrus’ grown-up, leaders from Shimen county party committee and county government have signed 27,000 tons sales contract with Amur River, Suifen river, 60,000 tons citrus with Shanghai and 270,000 tons with Sinkiang. These guarantee citrus farmers’ enthusiasm for production.By Crystal

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Because of the continued fine weather, and well-prepared service, During Golden Week, Zhangjiajie recieved 1.1131 million person-time, tourism revenue was 530 million yuan, including 133 million yuan in ticket sales.This year Golden Week, Zhangjiajie developed comprehensive tour safeguard mechanism, reasonable regulation and control. It took many measures to have an assurance for orderly reception. The whole holiday dind not present tourists complaints and disputes caused by line. According to statistics, Golden Week, Zhangjiajie had about 42000 vehicles, the sampling drive tourists satisfaction rate reached 95%.Translated by Sophia

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It was revealed from the China Southern Airlines Company Limited Hunan Branch on October 8, 2013 that it launched a new flight from Changsha to Vietnam's Danang. The maiden flight successfully departed from Changsha Huanghua International Airport on September 29. During the National Day holiday, the flight departed from Changsha on October 2 and returned on October 6.The A320 plane takes off from Changsha at 23:30 (China Standard Time), and arrives in Danang at 1:20 (China Standard Time) next day. It leaves Danang for Changsha at 2:20 (Vietnam Time) and lands in Changsha at 6:20 (Vietnam Time).With the province’s economic boom, Hunan maintains increasing trade ties with Vietnam, and enjoys vigorous development in international tourism industry. Danang, the second largest port city in Vietnam, is well-known for its beautiful scenery and its picturesque sea and sky.According to an employee from Hunan Branch, the Changsha-Danang flight opens a new waypoint from Hunan to Southeast Asia, which accords with the outbound travel demand of Hunan people, promoting the economic and cultural exchanges and communications between Changsha and Danang.Translator: Lv XuefenSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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During this“Golden Week” holiday, ZJJ Huangshizhai Ropeway received 69,000 tourists, Including 54,673 tourists from Oct 1st to Oct 4th, an increase of 25.37% equal to 11,062 tourists than the same period of last year; including 18,372 tourists on Oct 3rd, which created a historic record of tourists flow for ZJJ Huangshizhai Ropeway single-day. Among the tourists that all received, individual travelers took up about 70% and team tourists about 30%.In order to response to the travelling peak during this holiday, all staffs in Yellow Stone Village(Huangshizhai) took up their quarters. They started to work at every 6:00 and sent the last tourist to the downhill, and then they had to check and repair equipments untill 12:00pm.For the sake of shortening the queue-up time for tourists during the travelling peak, The company had presented warm prompts about the number to collecting ticekts and waiting time on the electronic signs and light box, so tourits can learn about the information to make suitable arragement for their schedule. This measurement guaranteed ropeway’s carry capacity with 2,200 passengers per hour and less than 30 minutes for queue-up.By Crystal

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On Oct 8th, source has learned that The First Hunan Flower Drum Arts Festival Will Kick off in Yiyang from Nov 10th to Nov 20th. Co-hosted by Hunan Agency for Culture Affairs and Yiyang Government, The festival falls into six major activities and 0ver 10 opera shows.Honored as“The nest for Flower drum opera” (A opera form popular along Yangtze River), Yiyang is the womb of “Yiyang flower drum”, a provincial intangible culture heritage protection project. Since 2010, The city has hold three flower drum opera show in succession.During the arts festival, other subject activities will be held, such as flower drum arts exhibition, flower drum opera seminar, excellent shows of flower drum opera and “Flower drum style·Yiyang Emotion”. 20 famous experts, performing artists of flower drum opera and flower drum opera inheritors from China Music Academy, Guizhou University and provincial arts research institute are to start the flower drum opera seminar; six performing units from Jingmen, Hubei, Changsha, Yiyang, Zhuzhou, Shaoyang, Loudi and Yueyang plan to present excellent opera shows; “Flower drum style” fitness dance for the citizens, “Flower drum style” singer contest and some “Going to the countryside” events also are to take place. All these shows and exhibitions are free to the public and about over 1 million people will benefit from this festival.By Crystal

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On Oct 7th, Tourists are teemed with Qianzhou ancient town of Jishou city, Xiangxi autonomous prefecture. Tourists from Shanghai, Chongqing and Shanxi are purchasing tourism products. Ms gao from Shanxi says, “Tujia brocades have strong three dimension and fine color. I will buy them to send to my relatives and friends”.According to the operators of Tujia brocade and silver shops, During the “Golden Week” holiday, in order to attract more tourists, they have improved the Tujia brocade and Miao silvers, combining Xiangxi ethnic factors into the products, which are favored by tourists.In recent years, Jishou city, Xiangxi autonomous prefecture has emphasized on developing special tourism products and stressing tourism commodity market brands. By regarding Tujia brocade, silver, Luo shi pressed salted duck and sugar and other special tourism products in Xiangxi as artworks, they sale these products to tourists across the world and at the same time attract more domestic and foreign tourists to start “Mysterious journey in Xiangxi”. At present, The special tourism products marketing in Qianzhou ancient town has become a new tourism highlight in Xiangxi.By Crystal

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On Oct 3rd, On the performing arts plaza of Qianzhou ancient town, Jishou city, Xiangxi, an intangible cultural performance with unique Xiangxi features provokes huge praises among tourists and of which the folk cultural factors are indulged by tourists.“Gelangdu” is the original totem of Xiangxi aborigines. Its worships include: ancestor worship, universal worship and gods worship; its performances embody: “Heaven”, “Earth” and “Harmony” three chapters, which combine the cultural essence of Tujia people. Taken sacrificial culture as its mean line, the show delivers rich folk culture of the mysterious Xiangxi through the live show by the intangible cultural inheritor.Accompanied by powerful percussion sound, Tima Jingu, Wedding Lament of Tujia People and Tujia Waving Dance feast tourists’ eyes and arise warm applause.Watching wonderful and rich-ethnic-featured culture show and tasting Xiangxi good wine,“The programs shocks me a lot and especially the rich culture elements enchants me!” a Hubei tourist who come here for the first time says.The person in charge of Qianzhou ancient town tourism development CO.,Ltd, indicates as an intangible program that the company takes huge efforts to build up, “Gelangdu” is the national eco-original cultural program in Xiangxi. It embodies the essences of Xiangxi Tujia people and Miao people and delivers bountiful folk culture in the mysterious Xiangxi. All its participation personnel are from the intangible inheritors in Western Hunan. Now the program has become a key one for tourists to learn about Xiangxi.By Crystal

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Gorges, Hot spring, Taoist holy place in Cili County, Zhangjiajie city jointly form special Zhangjiajie “Eastern route”.Since National Day Golden Week,“Eastern route” received 0.011 million visitors, which makes it a supplemental area and buffer zone besides Zhangjiajie core scenic spots.In order to insure that visitors can be satisfied with the service here, Cili County set up a coordinating team to strictly check on tourist safety, tourist quality and complaint and so on. Tourism, police, transportation, health and many functional departments performs their own functions and carry on 24-hour on duty system.As reported, Cili County always makes pointed references on inviting investment and tourist promotion in virtue of Zhangjiajie core scenic spots. In recent years, Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon’s “Longest glass bridge in the world and the highest bungee jumping platform project” settled in “Eastern route” one after another. At the same time, Cili City also has long-term cooperation with more than 30 cities and 100 tourist agents.Translated by Becky

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