Girls of Miao ethnic group celebrate a folk festival by singing on a boat in the Phoenix (Fenghuang) ancient city, central China's Hunan Province, May 6, 2014. Local citizens of Miao ethnic group and guests of Rukai ethnic group from the Pingdong county in southeast China's Taiwan gathered in the Phoenix ancient city to celebrate the folk festival, which falls on the eighth day of the fourth month in Chinese lunar calendar. (Xinhua/Li Ga)People of Miao ethnic group (L) and Rukai ethnic group (R) celebrate a folk festival in the Phoenix (Fenghuang) ancient city, central China's Hunan Province, May 6, 2014. Local citizens of Miao ethnic group and guests of Rukai ethnic group from the Pingdong county in southeast China's Taiwan gathered in the Phoenix ancient city to celebrate the folk festival, which falls on the eighth day of the fourth month in Chinese lunar calendar. (Xinhua/Li Ga)Source:Xinhua

News 2014-05-09 11:12 View：1337

On the morning of May 7, a group of American tourists visiting the Tima Family of Xibu Street in Wulingyuan District happily learnt folk songs of Sangzhi County of Zhangjiajie and waving dance of the Tujia Ethnic Minority from Xiang Zuorong, an inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage, creating fervent yet harmonious atmosphere.The American tourists experienced the national intangible cultural heritage of folk culture like Tujia folk songs, Tujia waving dance and beating drums in the Tujia style. The tourists expressed their wish to share the native flavor of Zhangjiajie with more friends. The group leader Mr. Maddock said excitedly in his accented Chinese, “Zhangjiajie is beautiful! The folk songs and dances are great!”Translator: Zhu MengxiaSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

News 2014-05-09 11:04 View：1229

In late April this year, China’s first animation professional satellite channel-Hunan Golden Eagle Cartoon channel “Playing tricks” crew shows in ZJJ Tianmen Mountain for three days. The film theme is: The golden eagle cartoon team together with a bunch of kids conquers difficulties one after another in Tianmen Mountain.Golden eagle cartoon network is the current largest domestic animation channel in the national animation transmission platform. More than about 600 million of the audience could see golden eagle cartoon. “Playing tricks” is a key program in golden eagle cartoon channel, Also is the first domestic educational toys class program. The target audience is for children aged 4 to 14. It focuses on life, Outdoor activities of primary and middle school students.Translated by Sophia

News 2014-05-08 12:28 View：1358

The Hunan Provincial Railway Department revealed on May 6 that the preliminary design scheme of Huaihua-Shaoyang-Hengyang railway has been approved by the China Railway Corporation and the Hunan Provincial People's Government. The project to be commenced at the end of this June is scheduled to be completed in four and a half years. This project would reduce the travel time from Huaihua to Hengyang to less than 2 hours, five hours shorter than the original journey along Hunan-Guizhou Railway via Loudi City and Zhuzhou City.The new state-level railway grade I covers 318 kilometers with the designed speed for passenger trains 200km/h. It will transport 50 pairs of passenger trains per day and 50 million tons of cargo per year.With a total investment of 32.4 billion yuan, the railway will greatly shorten the distance among north-western China, south-western China, Western Taiwan Straits Economic Zone and Pearl River Delta. The exploitation of tourism and mineral resources along the route will be boosted. The railway is expected to better facilitate the industrial transfer from Pearl River Delta and Western Taiwan Straits Economic Zone.Translator: Guo YanSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

News 2014-05-08 11:11 View：957

During this labor holiday, Zhangjiajie grand canyon scenic area received 26,000 tourists, grew more than 8% last year. By adopting advance notice, Time-sharing release, Guide the whole process and set limit to reception, In the whole holiday, scenic reception was safe, stable, orderly and smooth. There was no complaints and effective safety accident.Translated by Sophia

News 2014-05-07 12:30 View：802

On May 4th, ZJJ National Forest Park appeared an unusual sights of changeful clouds among the peaks and mountains, making it a wonderland. Guests at home and abroad as well as photographers were intoxicated in this breathtaking sights.It is said that such a unusual sea of clouds were caused by continuous misty rain. Though it didn’t clear up at that day, the rain obviously became less. Moving with wind, layers of clouds climbed above the gorge, Then formed a picturesque and poetic sea of clouds sights.Early May is the best season for guests to visit ZJJ National Forest Park to enjoy sea of clouds and take pictures, When it will have abundant rainfall there.Translated by Zumi

News 2014-05-07 12:20 View：1647

On May 4, Chen Li, member of the Hunan Photographers' Association (HPA), returned from London, England, with great honor. His winning image, "Rain in an ancient town", stood out in selected display of the Sony World Photography Awards, hosted by the World Photography Organisation (WPO), making him the general champion of open photographer and honoring him the title of annual photographer, which is a great achievement in this event. This is the first time that a Chinese contestant has been awarded as the general champion in this event. Chen Li is from Fenghuang County of Hunan Province. His work "Rain in an ancient town" was drawn from the Fenghuang ancient town, portraying his affection and love for his hometown. The work presents the theme of misty and rainy Fenghuang, with ancient residential buildings as background and typical Chinese stone mounds s as foreground. It adopted slow shot technique, combining Chinese traditional artistic style and modern photographing techniques, fulfilling spiritual worth. The Sony World Photography Awards, hosted by WPO, is one of the most influential photography awards in the world. This event included four categories- open group, professional group, youth group, and professional student group, and over 100 thousand works of photographers from all over the world participated in the contest. Translator: Hao JingruSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

News 2014-05-07 11:10 View：1106

ZJJ Grand Gorge received 26 thousand domestic and foreign guests, Increased more than 8% than the same period of last year.A sampling survey revealed that guests not only speak highly of the fair ecological environment and clean fresh air, but also praised the fine service in the scenic area. “It is not enough to just spend 3 days here. It is a good place to foster health life and go on a vacation.” Mr Li, A guests from Shenzhen said.During the first 2 days, It was sunny. Streams, rainfall, mountains and bridges under blue sky and white clouds made domestic and foreign guests breathtaking to enjoy a healthy relaxing ecological trip. Though it was rainy on the third day, it would not damped the guests. The gorge was surrounded by spreading mist above the stream, like a wonderland.ZJJ Grand Gorge carried out a human and convenient serve though measures like setting up consultant desks in key crossing, issuing useful materials for self-driving guests. Thus, a good order was kept in there during 3-day holidays.Translated by Zumi

News 2014-05-06 12:29 View：861