In 2015, Hunan’s tourism revenue hit 371.29 billion yuan, ranking tenth in China and achieving an annual average growth of 21.1 percent and an increase of 160.4 percent over the end of the 11th five-year plan period. Hunan’s tourism gradually enjoys a more prominent position as a strategic pillar industry. During the 12th five-year plan period, Hunan’s tourism industry focused on the target of building the province into a tourism power and has made efforts to improve quality and efficiency, said Chen Xianchun, director of the Hunan Provincial Bureau of Tourism. Chen added that the scale of tourism industry has been in expansion mode and the tourism economy has maintained sound operation. The province’s tourism contribution to GDP hit record high and tourism taxation made new progress. Its tourist reception capacity and tourism revenue have been increased. Tourists’ satisfaction with tourism service quality has been enhanced. Hunan has expanded its tourism source market to surrounding areas and Yangtze River Delta region. The investment scales in tourism continued to increase due to an increasingly optimized investment structure. The tourist consumption structure has been gradually improved and the proportion of shopping spending was on the rise. A sound tourism product system has taken shape, integrating vacation tourism products, special tour products, and new tourism products. Employment grew fast in tourism industry. In 2015, Hunan received 473 million tourists from home and abroad, an increase of 133 percent over that of 2010. The added value of tourism industry reached 152.848 billion yuan, accounting for 5.26 percent of the total GDP of the province. The overall added value of tourism industry hit 282.13 billion yuan, a contribution rate of 9.71 percent to the province’s total GDP. Translator: Xiao JuanSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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The photo taken on Nov. 1, 2016 shows tourists are visiting Aiwan Pavilion at Yuelu Mountain Scenic Area in Changsha. Themed on “Romantic Maple Brings a Cozy Life”, the 10th Red Maple Festival of Yuelu Mountain kicked off the same day. It will last for over two months and feature eight theme activities, including mountain climbing, red maple leaves forum, and Zen culture experience. Translator: Xiao JuanSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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Recently a light festival was open to the public in the county. The festival consisted of different theme exhibition areas decorated with LED light bulbs, creating a romantic and fantastic light show for tourists. The photo taken on the evening of Oct. 30, 2016 shows citizens are appreciating LED light show in Guiyang County.Translator: Xiao JuanSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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On October 23rd, 24 solar terms of frost,in the resort Zhangjiajie, autumn clouds look like “Avatar” suspended sea, from time to time to let visitors both at home and abroad to take pictures.The clouds appear in Tianzi mountain, several miles galleries, Yuan Gujie Yang Gujie, Huangshi village, etc. Because of the rain, the fog in the top of the mountain after wind blowing burst, haunting in “Zhangjiajie landscape” hoodoo and peak cluster, which formed a variety of realistic picture.Every autumn frost means that the weather gets colder, going into winter. Zhangjiajie Wulingyuan however, is still the majority of tourists travel choice. Because of the successful festival activities such as “Huanglong hole” art fair, Hunan international tourism festival and international travel business conference, The Olympic champion meet in Wulingyuan, Zhangjiajie will continue to attract many visitors.Translated by Sophia

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On October 28th, 12 European media come into Zhangjiajie Wulingyuan core scenic spot.It is understood that the 12 media respectively come from France, Austria, Belgium, Germany, Russia, The Czech Republic, Sweden, Hungary, Slovakia, Italy and other European countries. It includes the TV media, print media and network media. During the period in Wulingyuan, they have visited the water around the four doors, Huangshi, miles galleries, Baofeng lake scenic spots, Which is shocked by the magic “Zhangjiajie landform”. With the exclamation of the floating avatar “Hallelujah mountain”, they also expressed in the respective media to publicize the beauty of the natural humanities of Wulingyuan, to improve the visibility and reputation in Europe, let more European visitors to understand and enter Zhangjiajie Wulingyuan.The European media Chinese delegation also examines the just trial business operation, Zhangjiajie grand canyon glass bridge, and will visit the tianmen mountain scenic spot.Translated by Sophia

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On October 28th, Zhangjiajie Tianzi mountain cableway walks in the sea of clouds, showing a spectacular view. On the same day, Zhangjiajie Tianzishan mountain cableway core recovers operation.New modified Tianzi mountain cableway has opened in February 6th, Which is known as the world’s first “Local tyrants gold” ropeway. Comparing with before, Tianzi mountain cableway runs faster, on the basis of original increased by 33%. The carrying capacity is bigger, a single crane load from grew six to eight people, carrying capacity up to 2,100 people per hour, on the basis of original increased 2.3 times.Translated by Sophia

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The 2016 China (Hunan) Red Tourism Festival will take place in Ningxiang County from November 13 to 17. During the festival, a series of promotional activities will be held to boost red tourism cooperation between China and Russia. The event was co-hosted by the Office of Red Tourism Coordination Group of China National Tourism Administration, Hunan Provincial Bureau of Tourism, the Foreign and Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the People’s Government of Hunan Province, and Changsha Municipal People’s Government. Eight theme activities will be organized, including the opening ceremony, the China-Russia red tourism promotion conference, self-driving travel on tracing stories of Liu Shaoqi’s overseas study from Huaminglou to Moscow, a large-scale photography exhibition on the Yangtze and Volga River, and inspection tours to Huitang hotspring resort, and those historical sites with a revolutionary legacy. A range of cooperative agreements on tourism will be signed between Hunan Provincial Bureau of Tourism and related states of Russia. 18 national key cities on promoting red tourism such as Hunan’s Shaoshan and Jiangxi’s Jinggangshan will announce the establishment of National Red Tourism Innovative Development Urban League, and join hands to develop red tourism routes.Translator: Xiao Juan Source: Hunan Official Web Portal

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On October 27th, Zhangjiajie Charming Xiangxi promotion news conference was held in Beijing, the famous film director Mr.Feng xiaogang formally became the original ecological folk culture show Charming Xiangxi director. Full speed Charming Xiangxi will meet with the domestic and overseas tourists in 2017, when the Wulingyuan cultural tourism products will gain a qualitative transformation.In the day of the conference, the national famous singer Mr.Liu huan served as the music director of Charming Xiangxi, At the same time, National well-known producer Lao zai became music creation of Charming Xiangxi. They will speed up to promote Zhangjiajie tourism products to the world hand in hand.Zhangjiajie Charming Xiangxi is a representative “Business card “for Wulingyuan district culture tourism, available in 16 years, which has been successfully performed more than 6,000 games, with the reception of nearly 13 million people. It is one of the country’s most popular tourist performing arts programs. As a demonstration base of national culture, Charming Xiangxi shows not only logs on the CCTV Spring Festival gala in recent years, also successfully abroads three times for cultural visit to Europe, which has attracted the famous writer Mr.Wang meng, Korean singer Mr.Huang to come to carry out art exchange column, etc.Translated by Sophia

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