On the arrival of the 46th “World earth day”, in the world natural heritage Wulingyuan, Zhangjiajie world geological park museum is free of charge for one year. According to statistics, Zhangjiajie world geological park museum has received 500,000 chinese and foreign tourists at home and abroad, which has become the focus of the Chinese and foreign tourists in wulingyuan for tour experience attractions.Zhangjiajie world geological park museum is Zhangjiajie world geological park iconic venues for universal geological science knowledge.Museum includes new electronic reading machine, photoelectric 3D projection, sound and light combination of three-dimensional Zhangjiajie geological park sand table, etc. It has built the world’s first fusion of sound, light, electricity, audio-visual, body feeling of zhangjiajie landform 5D experience pavilion, becoming a new bright spot.In 2014, Zhangjiajie world geological park smoothly passed through the United Nations “Big test”. Meanwhile it played an important role in Zhangjiajie world geopark museum.UN experts praised the “Zhangjiajie world geological park museum was the best geological museum and the geological popular science education base in the world “.Translated by Sophia

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The Tuojiang River in Fenghuang Ancient Town, a fairyland shrouded in fog on the morning of May 1, attracted numerous visitors to take photos.Translator: Wang XiaoluSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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Yesterday was the 46th world earth day. Hunan announced 10 world-class geological relics, Zhangjiajie sandstone hoodoo landscape, SangZhi dragon fossil origin, and Zhangjiajie tianmen mountain were on the list.Geological relics are earth’s legacy in the evolution process of various trace, recording the history of the earth, with significant evolution, including the stratigraphic section, the fossil record, minerals, and other geological relics.This list is helpful to promote the development of tourism economy. At the same time, it also is a kind of spur to promote the city environmental work to do better.Translated by Sophia

News 2015-04-30 18:18 View：912

On April 27, the Lanshan County People’s Government has signed contracts with Lanshan Bocheng Stone Industry Co., Ltd. and Lanshan Longping Stone Industry Co., Ltd. to develop stone industry. The two companies invest 200 million yuan and 50 million yuan respectively to engage in business on stone mining, processing, exhibition, trade, storage, logistics and e-commerce. Lanshan granite enjoys wide varieties and distribution. The discovered varieties which have been proved to be valuable include yinheqing (galaxy green) granite, granule granite, violet granite, dabaihua (big white flower), Lanshanhong (Lanshan red), and diamond blue, with a possible deposit of about 300 million cubic meters.Translator: Hao JingruSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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A waterway tourist transportation platform at Changsha Orange Isle went into trial operation on April 27. Another docking station for tourist vessels has already been planned at Peigong Pavilion on Orange Isle. The platform has two barge terminals with five berths, four of which have become temporary docking points for the four cruise firms at Orange Isle, namely Haishun, Jinzhou, Xinyu, and Yangfan.The barges are equipped with ticket windows, restrooms, and stores. The tourism wharf is free to all ships during the trial run and ship tickets are sold by respective cruise firms. Certain management fee will be charged after the trial operation and a unified charging standard may apply. Tourists visit a tourist transportation platform at the west side of Orange Isle on the morning of April 27.Translator: Liu FenSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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On April 21st, the west road glass replacement has completed. It is expected to show on the labour vacation. Zhangjiajie tianmen mountain west glass plank road officially opened on October 1st, 2011, the feeling of adventure has attracted visitors from home and abroad. On March 2015, the road has been received tourists more than 4,300 thousand people.Translated by Sophia

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Ten Thousand Signature Campaign and Race in Tongdao Dong Autonomous County was held on April 28. This activity calls for people's action in building Tongdao into a national clean county, helps people get rid of bad habits and promotes healthy and civilized life style. About ten thousand local government officials and people participated in the race and the campaign to celebrate the upcoming May Day and Youth Day. Translator: Guo YanSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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The Japanese and Chinese expert panel organized by the ASEM Water Resources Research & Development Center, started a four-day survey in Dongting Lake region on April 27. The survey is an important part of the National Key S&T Special Project, "Integration and Application Demonstration of Ecological Villages & Towns and Key Technologies of Environment-Friendly Agriculture".The experts made a survey at Hi-Tech Bio-Agro Co., Ltd. Its president Yang Li has been committed to ecological protection of Dongting Lake, and rented 1,800 mu (120 hectares) of land on the shores of the lake to cultivate improved wetland woods, hoping to explore approaches to environment-friendly agriculture and wetland protection in terms of replanting and improving soil and precision operation. The panel highly commended "Hi-Tech Pattern".The Japanese experts mainly came from Shiga-ken, specializing in environment-friendly agriculture, water and soil conservation, fish and rural planning. Shiga-ken has accumulated advanced experience in water environment treatment, precision agriculture and environment-friendly agriculture through the ecological improvement of Biwako, which is worth learning from.Translator: Zhang MinsiSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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