“Beautiful Countryside” construction activity that initiated by National Ministry of Agriculture in Feb, 2013 has released its final result: 1,100 countrysides across the nation has been selected into the “Beautiful Countryside” pilot project, among which ZJJ Shiyangping village becomes the only one that is selected from the region.Located in the southeast of ZJJ Yong ding district, Shiyangping village covers an area of 1,700 hectares. It has preserved 182 Tujia Diaojiao buildings that constructed in Ming and Qing dynasties and has a long history, beautiful environment and strong-favor of Tujia folk customs, which make it become one of the most preserved primitive Tujia tribes in south China. In 2012, ZJJ Shiyangping village was confirmed the first group of traditional countryside across the country; in May this year, The State Council officially confirmed it as the national key cultural relic protection unit. In recent years, with the speedy development of Zhangjiajie’s culture and tourism, ZJJ Shiyangping village becomes widely known with tourists packed in here.After the selection of “Beautiful Countryside” pilot project, These pilot countrysides will get fund supports from Ministry of Agriculture in terms of marsh gas construction, farmer training, argicultural technology promotion and rural clean project, etc. It is no doubt that Shi Yang Ping village’s selection will bring a new chance for it in its agriculture production, cultural tourism, village protection and facility construction.Source from: Changsha Tourism Bureau WebsiteBy Crystal

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“Far Pandora, Near Zhangjiajie” 2013 Zhangjiajie and Thailand Tourism Product Promotion was held in Bangkok.Zhangjiajie was designed to work together with Thailand trade, to have a propaganda and introduction of the world natural heritage landscape magical scenery, expanding the zhangjiajie tourism market in Thailand.Zhangjiajie tourism has exchanged and cooperated with Thailand in recent years. More and more widely conversation has opened in zhangjiajie. People can see Thailand tourist charter flights, Zhangjiajie’s tourism image stores. Zhangjiajie and Thailand’s tourism exchanges and visits constantly strengthened. In 2013, about 20,000 Thai tourists have visited Zhangjiajie. Thailand is the second largest foreign tourists’ country in Zhangjiajie.Thailand’s national tourism administration has said, in the two countries, They are friendly neighbors with increasingly frequent cultural exchanges between the two countries. China has become the largest inbound tourists. In 2013, more than 400 person-times Chinese visitors came to Thailand, 700,000 Thai visitors traveled to China.Translated by Sophia

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At its tourism product promotion conference in Kuala Lumpur on December 14, Zhangjiajie publicized and introduced its magical landform scenery of the Zhangjiajie World Geopark, which is included in the first batch of World Natural Heritage.“Zhangjiajie’s steep mountains and valleys resemble vivid picture scroll, and Zhangjiajie boasts the world’s well known natural heritage resources. Zhangjiajie will vigorously develop series of tourism products such as Zhangjiajie’s landform sightseeing tourism, sport climbing fitness tourism, and mountain and river landscape photographing tourism, to advocate concepts of ecological tourism, healthy tourism, environment friendly tourism, and low-carbon tourism”, said Mr. Hou, deputy director of the Administrative Office of Zhangjiajie National Forest Park.According to Mr. Hou, Zhangjiajie is now holding the third International Internet Photo Contest and welcomes Malaysian amateur photographers to participate in the contest. He also expressed Zhangjiajie’s willingness to cooperate with Malaysian tourism field, and to boom the market of tourist source through joint efforts of the two sides.Translator By Hao Jingru

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The 2013 Zhangjiajie (China) Tourism Promotion Conference was held in Bangkok on December 16.The conference aimed to publicize and promote the magical landform scenery of Zhangjiajie, a World Natural Heritage site, to the world and expand tourism market in Thailand, with the joint efforts of Thailand counterparts.According to Hou Jiaji, vice director of the Administration Office of Zhangjiajie International Forest Park, in recent years, tourism exchange and cooperation between Zhangjiajie and Thailand has been enhanced, and direct tourist charter flights between the two places have been launched. In addition, Zhangjiajie has set up local tourism flagship stores in Thailand, strengthening bilateral tourism exchange and visit. With the tourist number hitting about 20,000, Thailand has become Zhangjiajie’s second largest overseas tourist source country.A representative of the Tourism Authority of Thailand remarked that Thailand is a friendly neighbor of China and the two countries enjoy frequent cultural exchange. At present, China serves as the second largest overseas tourist resource country for Thailand.Translator By Zhang Minsi

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At the end of Dec, Hunan 7th Giant Salamander Artificial Fecundation Discharge Acitivity will be initiated in ZJJ Yellow Dragon Cave; At that time, Ten groups of gaint salamander parents and near 500 seedlings will be free in the site.The sound resource environment and high-quality water resources in the ecological sqaure of ZJJ Yellow Dragon Cave becomes the main meeting place for the discharge activity of gaint salamander. These giant salamanders will be discharged in the side of Hallelujah Music Hall of Yellow Dragon Cave ecological sqaure, cave and the oberservation station of Gaint Salamander National Natural Conservation Zone, becoming another cultural business card for the ecological tourism in Yellow Dragon Cave.“Yellow Dragon Cave ecological sqaure and the discharge activity of gaint salamander bring out the best in each other, for both of them is ecological. The discharge activity will make the finishing point in the former, boosting the orderly development in gaint salamander ecological tourism, popularization of science and tourism” Remarks by the person in charge of this free activity. It is reported there are 512,000 artificial domesticated gaint salamanders and near 200,000 seedlings output annually in Zhangjiajie, thus Zhangjiajie is honored “The Homeland of Gaint Salamander”. Since the free activity of gaint salamander in 2002, There is a total number of over 6,000. At this time, the activity will be simultaneously conducted in Zhangjiajie, Changde, Huaihua and other six counties and synchronous discharge will be conducted in Zhangjiajie Yongding district, Sangzhi county, Cili county.“Oberservation station of Gaint Salamander National Natural Conservation Zone” in ZJJ Yellow Dragon CaveBy Crystal

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Knowing from Zhangjiajie Mayor Quality Prize Conference, Charming Xiangxi has got this prize.Zhangjiajie mayor quality prize is approved by the national standard. It is the highest quality award, named with “Mayor”. It mainly implements performance excellence management model, Quality management level, and independent innovation ability, Which has made significant economic and social benefits.It is understood that Charming Xiangxi after more than ten years of development, has become the national well-known tourist performing arts company. The main program “Zhangjiajie Charming Xiangxi” wins overseas tourists love, tourists reception now has reached about 1 million people.Translated by Sophia

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On December 11st, The 12th annual national mountaineering outdoor sports club meeting, Zhangjiajie first launches 10 outdoor tourism products, striving to build successful “Outdoor paradise”.Development of outdoor tourism transformation and upgrading of Zhangjiajie tourism is one of the key. The launch of the 10 outdoor tourist routes are given priority to hiking routes, including rock climbing, cave exploration, water outdoors, etc. Same zhangjiajie, the outdoor paradise.As the birthplace of lishui river, Zhangjiajie with wonderful mountains and special rivers, outdoor tourism resource is very rich. A French professional team are currently planned to explore Zhangjiajie, expected to make “Outdoor paradise” in the summer of 2015.Translated by Sophia

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According to the Guangzhou Railway (Group) Cooperation on December 18, the Hangzhou to Changsha section of the Shanghai-Kunming High-speed Railway was connected in Changsha South Station after the unremitting efforts by nearly one thousand builders for one month. The accomplishment marks that the Beijing-Guangzhou High-speed Railway, the longest railway line from north to south, and the Shanghai-Kunming High-speed Railway, the longest from west to east, are successfully jointed in Changsha.The 2,245-kilometer Shanghai-Kunming High-speed Railway connects Shanghai City, Zhejiang Province, Jiangxi Province, Hunan Province, Guizhou Province and Yunnan Province, crossing the most provinces in China. With its length second only to China's longest railway Beijing-Guangzhou High-speed Railway, the Shanghai-Kunming Railway has the longest route across east to west in China.After the docking of Hangzhou and Changsha section, the two longest railways realized the seamless joint in Changsha South Station. The Hangzhou section of the Shanghai-Kunming High-speed Railway is expected to be accomplished in September 2014, by when it will take only four hours from Changsha to Hangzhou.Translator: Zhu MengxiaSource: changsha.gov.cn

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