On May 24th, 2015 Zhangjiajie Tianmen Mountain ladder downhill skills competition showed to the public.Garrett, Bernard kohl,Mike Montgomery and Andrew Taylor 4 contestants showed the dazzling bicycle skills,letting the audiences feel the extreme sports bicycle unique charm.Afternoon skills competition was a dazzling technique performance.Skills competition shortened the length of the track, so the players had an acceleration of the ladder platform jumping to complete the difficulty movement in the air.During the game, each player jumps after three times to get the highest score.In the end, with the skill and courage, Mike Montgomery won the champion of skills competition with 87.66 points.Translated by Sophia

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Cycling Challenge in Tianmen Mountain Zhangjiajie China!May 23th-24th,2015.

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A grand Miao festival was marked on May 25 at Shanjiang Town, west Hunan's Fenghuang County. About ten thousand Miao people in beautiful ethnic costumes celebrated the traditional holiday by singing folk songs and performing Miao dances. The festival falls on the eighth day of the fourth month in the Chinese lunar calendar, and it's a time for the Miao people to pay homage to their ancestors and heroes, and to have a get-together. It was included in the third batch of national intangible cultural heritage in 2011.On May 25, Miao girls performed folk dance during the “Girls’ Day”. 14 ethnic minority township teams of Suining County made a performance tour along the trunk road, bringing different experiences for visitors. The festival falls on the eighth day of the fourth month in the Chinese lunar calendar.Translator: Liu FenSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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Zhangjiajie,a scenic national park in the country's Hunan province,is set to open the world's longest and highest glass-bottomed bridge in July.Spanning two cliffs in the Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon area,it will stretch 430 meters (1,410 feet)long and 6 meters(20 feet)wide,hovering over a 300-meter(984-foot) vertical drop.In comparison the Grand Canyon Skywalk in the United States is 21 meters(69 feet) in length and stands 219 meters(718 feet) above the canyon floor Canada's Glacier Skywalk in Alberta.which opened last year extends 35 meters(115 feet)from the cliff and is a little bit shy of 300 meters in height.The footbridge was desighned by Israeli architect Haim Dotan,who is also behind Expo 2010 Shanghai's Israel Pavilion.Dotan says the bridge will serve as a runway for fashion shows and be able to hold up to 800 people at once.The Grand Canyon of Zhangjiajie skywalk will also offer the world's highest bungee jump,stealing the title from Macau Tower's 233-meters(764-foot)-high attraction.Zhangjiajie is a 56 square-kilometer designated tourst park inside the bigger Wulingyuan Scenic Area.it's been open to the public since 2009 and is said to have been the inspiration behind the beautiful planet of Pandora in James Cameron's 2009 "Avatar" film.

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The 2015 Changde Tourism Festival is expected to kick off at the Liuye Lake on June 6. As a highlight, Changde Happy Waterworld, the world’s first water theme park on island, will officially unveil its curtain.Focused on the water culture, the waterworld is to be built into an amusement park for people of all ages. Apart from world-class water recreations, tourists can enjoy themselves at artificial beach, interactive water castle, SPA oasis and the world’s first lavender park on island. Visitors can also experience exotic customs here by appreciating performances by international elite teams from Russia, Brazil, etc.Translator: Yang ChengfeiHunan Official Web Portal

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Maidservants in the white dress serve the brides during a group traditional Han wedding in an ancestral hall in Rucheng, central China's Hunan Province, May 20, 2015. "May 20" in Chinese language is pronounced similar to "Wo Ai Ni", which means "I love you", and a traditional group wedding for 10 couples was held at the ancestral hall in Rucheng on Wednesday. The ancestral hall is a Chinese temple dedicated to deified ancestors and progenitors of surname lineages or families in Chinese culture. And today the ancestral hall in Rucheng has become the place to protect and inherit the traditional culture. (Xinhua/Li Ga)A bride and a bridegroom show the eggs symbolizing long-lasting perfection at a group traditional Han wedding in an ancestral hall in Rucheng, central China's Hunan Province, May 20, 2015. "May 20" in Chinese language is pronounced similar to "Wo Ai Ni", which means "I love you", and a traditional group wedding for 10 couples was held at the ancestral hall in Rucheng on Wednesday. The ancestral hall is a Chinese temple dedicated to deified ancestors and progenitors of surname lineages or families in Chinese culture. And today the ancestral hall in Rucheng has become the place to protect and inherit the traditional culture. (Xinhua/Li Ga)Maidservants in the white dress serve the brides during a group traditional Han wedding in an ancestral hall in Rucheng, central China's Hunan Province, May 20, 2015. "May 20" in Chinese language is pronounced similar to "Wo Ai Ni", which means "I love you", and a traditional group wedding for 10 couples was held at the ancestral hall in Rucheng on Wednesday. The ancestral hall is a Chinese temple dedicated to deified ancestors and progenitors of surname lineages or families in Chinese culture. And today the ancestral hall in Rucheng has become the place to protect and inherit the traditional culture. (Xinhua/Li Ga)Food is seen at a group traditional Han wedding in an ancestral hall in Rucheng, central China's Hunan Province, May 20, 2015. "May 20" in Chinese language is pronounced similar to "Wo Ai Ni", which means "I love you", and a traditional group wedding for 10 couples was held at the ancestral hall in Rucheng on Wednesday. The ancestral hall is a Chinese temple dedicated to deified ancestors and progenitors of surname lineages or families in Chinese culture. And today the ancestral hall in Rucheng has become the place to protect and inherit the traditional culture. (Xinhua/Li Ga)Brides and bridegrooms attend a group traditional Han wedding in an ancestral hall in Rucheng, central China's Hunan Province, May 20, 2015. "May 20" in Chinese language is pronounced similar to "Wo Ai Ni", which means "I love you", and a traditional group wedding for 10 couples was held at the ancestral hall in Rucheng on Wednesday. The ancestral hall is a Chinese temple dedicated to deified ancestors and progenitors of surname lineages or families in Chinese culture. And today the ancestral hall in Rucheng has become the place to protect and inherit the traditional culture. (Xinhua/Li Ga)Source: Xinhua

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In recent years, Hunan has witnessed rapid development in environmental protection industry. According to the Environmental Protection Department of Hunan, Hunan has been included in the top ten list of China’s environmental protection industry. Its number of environmental protection enterprises has increased from 760 in 2008 to over 1,100 in 2014, with the output value growing from 40.7 billion yuan to 135 billion yuan. At present, Hunan has three environmental protection enterprises with a turnover of one billion yuan. The environmental sanitation equipment produced by Environmental Industry Company of Zoomlion Heavy Industry, with its 6 billion yuan of turnover in 2014, occupied the largest share in domestic market. The Yonker Environmental Protection Co., Ltd. has made great efforts in such fields as air pollution control, refuse disposal and soil remediation, earning a revenue of over 0.9 billion yuan. Statistics showed that the annual growth rate of output value of Hunan environmental protection enterprises has reached above 25% in recent years.The rise of “Green Hunan” has relied greatly on its strong research and development as well as advanced environmental protection technology. Now Hunan has over 10 national and provincial research centers in heavy metal pollution prevention and industrial waste gas pollution control. With the combination of industry, university, research center and capital, Hunan environmental protection enterprises have taken part in the decision-making in formulating national environmental standards and have taken the lead in zero release of industrial furnace, control of PM 2.5, plant environmental management, heavy metal pollution regulation and environmental monitoring.Translator: Zhu MengxiaHunan Official Web Portal

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May 15th, 2015, Okay Airways opened direct routes (Zhangjiajie to Guilin & Zhangjiajie to Wuhan). Greatly improving the Zhangjiajie Tourism traffic convenience.Fly Date: May-October.1.Between:Zhangjiajie and WuhanBK2801：Weekly 1,2,3,4,5,6,7;Zhangjiajie to Wuhan  07:40am-08:55am;BK2802：Weekly 1,2,3,4,5,6,7;Wuhan to Zhangjiajie  09:25am-10:40am;2.Between:Zhangjiajie and GuilinBK2759：Weekly 1,2,3,4,5,6,7;Zhangjiajie to Guilin  15:20pm-17:05pm;BK2760：Weekly 1,2,3,4,5,6,7;Guilin to Zhangjiajie  17:35pm-19:20pm;

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