At 10:00 am, Nov 18th, in Pinglang Village, Jishou City, Xiangxi Tujia Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Wulingyuan(Xiangxi) Tujia Miao Culture Ecological Protection Zone Construction & Digital Protection for Autonomous Prefecture Intangible Cultural Heritage project officially initiates its boot ceremony.Warm sunshine shining in Dong River Valley, Festival atmosphere prevails in Pinglang Village, Jishou City, where Miao people settle in. Dressed in festival splendid attire, they beat the Miao drum and sing Miao songs. After a brief ceremony, under a citrus tree and on the beach of Dong River, the first digital protection national intangible cultural heritage project–“Xiangxi Miao Drum Dance” is recorded amid such original and ecological situation. Shi shun ming, The 64 year-old inheritor of national intangible cultural heritage project and the second-generation Miao “Drum King” gives the performance of “Celebrate the harvest”.In May, 2010, The national Ministry of Culture approved to set up “Wulingyuan (Xiangxi) Tujia Miao Culture and Ecology protection Pilot Zone”; In march 21st, 2013, The over-all planning of the protection pilot zone has pasted the accreditation by Ministry of Culture; there are 24 items from autonomous prefecture that selected into national intangible cultural heritage list and 62 items that selected into provincial list; There are 22 national representative inheritors and 44 provincial representative inheritors. In Nov this year, China Digital protection Center for Intangible cultural Heritage carried out the first group of digital protection pilot project, autonomous prefecture became the first one in these 13 pilots and also one of the pilot that has two prefecture-level digital protection pilots for intangible cultural heritage.Source from: Hunan DailyBy Crystal

News 2013-11-22 13:56 View：910

Hunan has been selected as one of the "Best in Travel 2014 - Top 10 Regions" by the world famous tourism book "Lonely Planet" (shorted as LP). It is the only listed region in China.Praising Hunan as "the next hot tourist destination", LP considers "Hunan has made itself accessible to cities at home and abroad via its new transportation network of high-speed railway, expressway and non-stop flight. The world's would-be tallest skyscraper Sky City and the phase one of the Changsha subway project are expected to be accomplished in 2014. The province, integrating tradition with modern elements, may not match with tourists' expectation of China, but it may also be the reason for a travel."The top ten tourist destinations include Sikkim of India, the Kimberley of Australia, Yorkshire of England, Hokuriku of Japan, Texas of USA, Victoria Falls of Zimbabwe and Zambia, Mallorca of Spain, West Coast of New Zealand, Hunan of China, and Ha'apai of Tonga.Translator: Zhu MengxiaSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

News 2013-11-22 13:37 View：1076

It has been over a month since the closing ceremony of third ZJJ International Music Week was held at Yellow Dragon Cave. Even though the Music Week has gone, flags of 23 countries still flutter in the ecological square of Yellow Dragon Cave, which forms a beautiful scene.At the entrance of Square of Yellow Dragon Cave, On the five propaganda column shows maps of five continents and 23 national flags stand upright beside the map. Especially under the background of green mountain and blue water, flags are sparkling under blue sky. At the same time, representative songs of different nations continuously played. What a harmonious scene!After the closing ceremony, the stage and other decorations were remained to let more tourist get close to and know more about Country Music Week. The International Country Music Week has successively held for three times. In the future, Zhangjiajie will be built into a holy land of international country music week every one yearns for.By Patricia

News 2013-11-21 13:55 View：1260

Recently, The journalist has learned from the management office of ZJJ National Forest Park, ZJJ National Forest Park haa been approved the first pilot project of low carbon attraction in Hunan, which is also the one and only low carbon attraction pilot in Hunan.In recent years, In line with the principle of “Protection First, Development Second”, ZJJ National Forest Park has done many efforts on energy-saving, emission-reduction, ecological green-recovery, pollution treatment and reources protection, and carried out the integrated construction of ecologically civilized village and scenery-village, making a low carbon road.As a low carbon attraction pilot, The management office of ZJJ National Forest Park will put more emphasis on the follwing eight aspects in future:1.Build a standar system for low carbon development;2.Expand low carbon in architecture;3.Enhance low-carbon in transportation;4.Propel low-carbon in operation management;5.Highten the capacity of forest carbon-sink;6.Build diversitified low carbon development system;7.Innovate the development mechanism of new low-carbon;8.Reinforce the competence of low-carbon development.It is estimated by 2015, the management office of ZJJ National Forest Park will basically build a low-carbon development system in terms of regulations, policy, standards and technical manual; by 2020, it will perfect low-carbon development policy, low-carbon technology supporting, low-carbon development promotion, carbon-emission caculation, which enable Zhangjiajie to update its low-carbon attraction brand.By Crystal

News 2013-11-20 13:51 View：901

Broad Homes Industrial Co., Ltd, China's first new-type industrial enterprise approved by residential industry standard, started to ship its complete houses at Chenglingji Port in Yueyang City of Hunan Province to Suriname in South America on November 18. It marked the official penetration of industrialized building of Hunan and even China at large into the international market.Industrialized building is described as constructing houses like piling up building blocks. That is to say, balcony, stairs, wallboards and other components, which are prefabricated in factory, only need to be fixed at the specified situation at the construction site with machines. Empire State Building in the USA, Burj Dubai and Petronas Towers are masterpieces of industrialized building.With the drive of policies and constant emergence of enterprises of construction industrialization, export of building products will unavoidably be trendsetters in the flowing years. Zhang Jian, board chairman of Broad Homes Industrial Co., Ltd presents "key model" to the representative of Surinam Ivan Graanoogst.Complete housing created by Broad Homes officially starts shipment.Translator: Zhang Minsi Source: Hunan Official Web Portal

News 2013-11-20 13:34 View：1195

On the moring of Nov 18th, Journalist notices a busy scene in the construction site of ZJJ Charming Xiangxi Visitor Center: Several Grabs are excavating sands under the operation of artisians; shop trucks are orderly transporting to the outside after full of sands. ZJJ Charming Xiangxi Visitor Center was started at the end of Nov, 2013 and will be completed in Jan, 2015 with a total investment of 250 million RMB. It is one of the key projects in ZJJ Wulingyuan district.As a suppoting construction project of ZJJ Charming Xiangxi Cultural Square, ZJJ Charming Xiangxi Visitor Center is located in the convergence zone of Suoxi River, Wulingyuan downtown and Liujiaxi. It covers a site area of 160,000 sq.m and an area of construction of 180,000 sq.m (Including one ground floor of 120,000 sq.m), and is constructed by ZJJ Charming God Song Culture Co.,ltd and ZJJ Image Wuling Properties Co.,ltd. It is reported body building of ZJJ Charming Xiangxi Visitor Center falls into three floors (Including one ground floor), and is equipped with comprehensive functions such as parking, shopping, leisure and vocation, which is built in line with the principle of “Nationalization, Ecologicalization and perfection”. The visitor center can hold 150 large and small vehicles and is connected with the underpass of Xiangxi Grand Theater; Besides it is furnished with some sites with strong local color, such as “Inspire Xiangxi” water sports arena, “Charming Hunan Embroidery” culture experience pavilion. At that time, traffic jam during the performance of ZJJ·Charming Xiangxi will disappear, and a large-scale international tourism and leisure high-end place emerges.“Expand the brand effect of Charming Xiangxi, build up a brand complex of tourism and leisure in Wulingyuan with high-demanded standard” Remarks by general manager Huang zhenbang, ZJJ Image Wuling Properties Co.,ltd, “The operation of the project activate downtown water landscape by local cultural brand; combined with architecture features and river landscape, the large-scale commercial chain stores and renowned brand leisure and catering and high-end leisure club will be brought into ZJJ through professional management operation team”.Effect pictures of ZJJ Charming Xiangxi Visitor CenterBy Crystal

News 2013-11-17 23:58 View：1046

A grand and graceful fresco was found in the Liren Lane of Hongjiang Ancient Commercial Town in Huaihua City, Hunan Province during the maintenance of an ancient building. The fresco is in the form of Character "Fu" (means "Fortune" in Chinese) which is composed by such animal paintings as magpies, red-crowned cranes, sika deer, and tortoises. Circled by 3 rings in the outer space and written in cinnabar on white background, the fresco is the 137th one found in the scenic spot and the largest and clearest one so far.According to Liang Bin, director of the Agencies of Historical Relics Preservation of Hongjiang District, the fresco has been preliminarily identified as a cultural relic of Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). The unparalleled fresco embodies a rosy prospect of "Hongfuqitian" (an idiom means being supremely fortunate, with a homophone of "Hong" as Hongjiang in the first word) with five implications of fortune, promotion, longevity, happiness, and wealth in the form of animal paintings. The fresco's creation is exclusive to Hongjiang Ancient Commercial Town, and is unique in the whole country.Translator: Li XuanSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

News 2013-11-17 22:44 View：853

The Korean-version Tourism Service Guide that jointly-printed by Zhangjiajie Huatian International Travel Agency and South Korea TOLO International Travel Agency is released in the customer market in South Korea.It is reported the first batch of over 10,000 Korean-version Tourism Service Guide is issued in 6,000 subordinate service websites of ZJJ Huatian International Travel Agency and South Korea TOLO International Travel Agency and parts of international airports and hotels. The guide is presented with Zhangjiajie scenic spot introduction, Main hotel display, Travel transportation guidance, Travel specialty shopping, Special catering and folk customs, Giving the South Korean tourists an all-round service guide in Zhangjiajie.Since 2001, South Korean markets has topped in Zhangjiajie’s overseas tourist market. In this year, in order to expand the customer market in South Korea, Zhangjiajie organizes a series of tourism promotion and exchange activity in South Korea and increases the density of direct charter flights between Zhangjiajie and South Korea. Since autumn, The “Enjoy the autumn outing” that put out by Zhangjiajie core scenic spots has received good graces among South Korean tourists, with over 30,000 South Korean tourists arrived in Wulingyuan just in Oct.By Crystal

News 2013-11-16 23:57 View：868