On March 16, the Golden Tea Drying Competition was held in Huangjin Village, Hulu Town, Baojing County, Hunan Province. Forty masters from ethnic minorities dried tea with 40 cauldrons to compete for the honor of "King of Golden Tea Drying of Baojing".Translator: Hao JingruSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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Director of the Foreign and Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of Hunan Province Xiao Bailing met in Changsha with the Japanese Embassy Minister of Economic Affairs Hayashi Teiji and his delegation to exchange ideas on the development and economic cooperation of Hunan and Japan.Director Xiao said that in 2014, import and export trade between Hunan and Japan reached 1.52 billion USD, an increase of 38%. The revenue from contracted projects in Japan hit 41.86 million USD, while Japanese investments of 16 projects in Hunan increased 77.8%. Ms. Xiao expects the two parties to continue cooperating in tourism, culture, and education.Hayashi Teiji stated that the trip to Hunan further enhanced his understanding of the partnership between Hunan and Japan. He hopes to launch direct flights between Hunan and cities in Japan to better serve both economic and cultural exchange and tourism development.Translator: Zhang MinsiSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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On March 12, Vietnam, Director-general of the department of national tourism administration of tourism, gives his own appreciation of the world natural heritage Zhangjiajie Yuan Gujie magnificent stage to travel business delegation. The delegation with a total of 111 people, it is the first major overseas trip for Zhangjiajie since the spring.It is understood that the delegation in addition to Vietnam national tourism administration of officials and the media, the rest are Vietnam travel service and travel club heads. Expeditions by Vietnam, Zhangjiajie tourism department attaches great importance to it.The inspection activity is organized by CITS Zhangjiajie tianma and Guangxi CITS overseas jointly, to develop Zhangjiajie tourism market of Vietnam. The whole activity will be ended on 14th, Vietnam delegation will successively be invited to examine the Tianmen mountain, Wulingyuan, xiangxi phoenix ancient city scenic spots, etc.The director-general of Vietnam national tourism administration has said, Zhangjiajie enjoys a good reputation in the world. In the field, the natural scenery lets people have much infatuation. A traveling salesman from Hanoi, Vietnam has said after returning, he will share Zhangjiajie nature to more and more people as soon as possible. In May this year, it is expected that a group of tourists will open a trip to Zhangjiajie.Translated by Sophia

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On March 11, At the entrance of Zhangjiajie Baofeng lake, A group of south Korean tourists enter from construction channel.Scenic spot controller introduces, quality engineering construction of the entrance plaza goes smoothly, which is expected to be put into use in June.Baofeng lake mention quality renovation project has begun in August last year. The project includes the scenic area entrance area, scenic area management service, ecological park area, plunge landscape area and so on. Project will highlight the characteristics of the ecological environmental protection, nationality, high-quality goods.In order to balance the project construction and sightseeing activities, Baofeng lake strengthenes the construction site safety management, and increases the quality of tourism service, and arranges personnel to monitor the construction site, to satisfy the masses of tourists.Translated by Sophia

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On March 10, the kids from Primary School Affiliated to Normal College of Jishou University showed their self-made masks of Nuo Opera in a local culture class. Nuo Opera is known as an ancient opera of Miao nationality in Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture. This art and craft lesson offers students a good opportunity to experience the mysterious Nuo Opera culture in Xiangxi.Translator: Guo YanSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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Zhangjiajie Huanglongdong scenic area will open night travel service, and visitors can enjoy “Charming scenery wonders of the world” at night. Sale ticket time will be extended to 20:00pm.This scenic spot night travel service will begin on April 1st. At the same time, the ticket time will be extended to 20:00pm (Summer discretionary deferred to 21:00pm), which means that more and more tourists from home and abroad will have more convenient travel choice.Opening night service, visitors in Huanglongdong scenic area can enjoy more convenient sightseeing, dining, and watching the performance. In Huanglongdong scenic area, a night of large-scale folk song and dance drama “Misty rain Zhangjiajie” has been completed quality upgrading at the early stage of the Spring Festival program. Scenic restaurant “Huanglong outlets” also is in the optimization of products and improves service quality.Translated by Sophia

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As the spring wind blows over the land, another Arbor Day comes again on March 12.Since the issue of “Decision on national voluntary tree planting” at the Fourth Session of the Fifth National People's Congress (NPC). Building Hunan’s reputation as green and beautiful, Hunan people voluntarily have been planting trees to promote sustainable development in urban and rural areas. By the end of 2014, Hunan’s forest coverage reached 59.57% and its forest growing stock 484 million cubic meters.China is simultaneously dealing with a slowdown in economic growth, making structural adjustments, and absorbing the effects of the previous economic stimulus policies. Therefore, China’s economic development enters a new normal, and greening in rural and urban areas faces new trends and challenges. Activists and the general public in Hunan should accept the trend, actively adjust to the new normal, advocate tree planting with unremitting efforts, further promote ecological development, and continue to strengthen the carrying capacity of resources and environment to secure a beautiful environment with blue skies, green land and clear water.Translator: Zhu MengxiaSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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On March 8th, 60 Zhangjiajie photographers and photography fans gathered in Huanglong cave ecological square, forming a beautiful scenery, attracting many tourists to watch.It is understood that the photography activities are organized by Wulingyuan district photographers’ association, aims to find the country romantic scene, focusing on tujia farming culture.Huanglong cave scenic area carefully selected 10 tujia girls in costumes, forming a series of exquisite picture.At the scene, many tourists were attracted by the beauty and lose no time to join the shooting team.Translated by Sophia

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