2013 ZJJ International Forest Protecting Festival will open its curtain in October 12th in Zhangjiajie. This year, The festival will take “Green song, beautiful homeland” as its theme and will put emphasis on the first run of the movie dream of Zhangjiajie and the cooperative project related to ecological protecting industry.Since 1991, Zhangjiajie keeps holding the International Forest Protecting Festival.Till this year, It is the 17th. According to different activities every year, carrying forward ecological civilization and building green homeland. At the same time, Zhangjiajie people’s consciousness of protecting the forest has been strengthened, which prompting Zhangjiajie people to treasure the nature and green land.Translated by Becky

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On the 19th of this month, 2013 “Xibu Street cup” second zhangjiajie wulingyuan traversing bicycle competition will be hold in the world natural heritage site Zhangjiajie wulingyuan scenic area. 2500 cyclists from the domestic and outdoor will for the first time travel in the “Zhangjiajie landform scenic area”.The cycling theme is “Riding with joy, happy xibu street”, Which designed to encourage people to pay more attention to choose a geen rtravel way with low energy consumption, low pollution and low emission. It will transfer a concept of saving resource, protecting friendly environment, and green city. By means of cycling, it aims to introduce wulingyuan rich tourism resources to the society, making zhangjiajie unique natural landscape and beauty become a low-carbon symbol.During this event, CCTV, xinhua news, people’s net, hunan satellite TV, hunan daily, Massachusetts and dozens of media will live tracking report. Sina weibo and tencent weibo will conduct real-time live online.Translated by Sophia

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On October 8th, Victor•Kovats, One of the second world wing flight championships athletes, fell from Zhangjiajie Tianmen Mountain with great misfortune. According to Zhangjiajie Government and event organizers, The cause of the accident may be related to “Technical error test process”. At present, Zhangjiajie is mobilize a rescue team of more than 200 people along the canyon precipice go all out search and rescue.Victor•Kovats from Hungary, Has 6 years skydiving experience, contains 700 times wing loading skydiving. He once won the third Hungarian wing loading skydiving championship and 2012 European wing competitive championship. His excuse for this entry is ranking among the fastest flying dreams.Translated by Sophia

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On Oct 10th, as the order goes from the Shimen county clerk, 2013 China·Shimen Citrus Festival officially unveils its curtain in the sports center of Shimen. Since Shimen initiated its 1st China·Shimen Citrus Festival in 2001, celebrating the citrus harvest has become a happy feast for 700,000 citizens in Shimen.Themed with “My Citrus Festival” in this year, although lively atmosphere prevails in the crowd as the previous years, there are still some new changes in this year’s festival. “The festival is sponsored by Shimen county citrus association while the government backs to the curtain. There are no stars invited and the opening ceremony is not held in stared hotel” The activity person introduces, in line with the principle of “Economized Festival”, Shimen turns the citrus festival into a genuine “My Citrus Festival” by many activities such as orange farmers’ happy parade, Citrus King PK and Tujia cooking skill show.It is reported by the end of 2012, there are 40 citrus specialized cooperatives in Shimen with 7,471 memberships, which activates over 130,000 farmers. Since 2011, through citrus specialized cooperatives, Shimen has sold over 100,000 tons of citrus. Overcome the extreme drought against citrus’ grown-up, leaders from Shimen county party committee and county government have signed 27,000 tons sales contract with Amur River, Suifen river, 60,000 tons citrus with Shanghai and 270,000 tons with Sinkiang. These guarantee citrus farmers’ enthusiasm for production.By Crystal

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Because of the continued fine weather, and well-prepared service, During Golden Week, Zhangjiajie recieved 1.1131 million person-time, tourism revenue was 530 million yuan, including 133 million yuan in ticket sales.This year Golden Week, Zhangjiajie developed comprehensive tour safeguard mechanism, reasonable regulation and control. It took many measures to have an assurance for orderly reception. The whole holiday dind not present tourists complaints and disputes caused by line. According to statistics, Golden Week, Zhangjiajie had about 42000 vehicles, the sampling drive tourists satisfaction rate reached 95%.Translated by Sophia

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It was revealed from the China Southern Airlines Company Limited Hunan Branch on October 8, 2013 that it launched a new flight from Changsha to Vietnam's Danang. The maiden flight successfully departed from Changsha Huanghua International Airport on September 29. During the National Day holiday, the flight departed from Changsha on October 2 and returned on October 6.The A320 plane takes off from Changsha at 23:30 (China Standard Time), and arrives in Danang at 1:20 (China Standard Time) next day. It leaves Danang for Changsha at 2:20 (Vietnam Time) and lands in Changsha at 6:20 (Vietnam Time).With the province’s economic boom, Hunan maintains increasing trade ties with Vietnam, and enjoys vigorous development in international tourism industry. Danang, the second largest port city in Vietnam, is well-known for its beautiful scenery and its picturesque sea and sky.According to an employee from Hunan Branch, the Changsha-Danang flight opens a new waypoint from Hunan to Southeast Asia, which accords with the outbound travel demand of Hunan people, promoting the economic and cultural exchanges and communications between Changsha and Danang.Translator: Lv XuefenSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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During this“Golden Week” holiday, ZJJ Huangshizhai Ropeway received 69,000 tourists, Including 54,673 tourists from Oct 1st to Oct 4th, an increase of 25.37% equal to 11,062 tourists than the same period of last year; including 18,372 tourists on Oct 3rd, which created a historic record of tourists flow for ZJJ Huangshizhai Ropeway single-day. Among the tourists that all received, individual travelers took up about 70% and team tourists about 30%.In order to response to the travelling peak during this holiday, all staffs in Yellow Stone Village(Huangshizhai) took up their quarters. They started to work at every 6:00 and sent the last tourist to the downhill, and then they had to check and repair equipments untill 12:00pm.For the sake of shortening the queue-up time for tourists during the travelling peak, The company had presented warm prompts about the number to collecting ticekts and waiting time on the electronic signs and light box, so tourits can learn about the information to make suitable arragement for their schedule. This measurement guaranteed ropeway’s carry capacity with 2,200 passengers per hour and less than 30 minutes for queue-up.By Crystal

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On Oct 8th, source has learned that The First Hunan Flower Drum Arts Festival Will Kick off in Yiyang from Nov 10th to Nov 20th. Co-hosted by Hunan Agency for Culture Affairs and Yiyang Government, The festival falls into six major activities and 0ver 10 opera shows.Honored as“The nest for Flower drum opera” (A opera form popular along Yangtze River), Yiyang is the womb of “Yiyang flower drum”, a provincial intangible culture heritage protection project. Since 2010, The city has hold three flower drum opera show in succession.During the arts festival, other subject activities will be held, such as flower drum arts exhibition, flower drum opera seminar, excellent shows of flower drum opera and “Flower drum style·Yiyang Emotion”. 20 famous experts, performing artists of flower drum opera and flower drum opera inheritors from China Music Academy, Guizhou University and provincial arts research institute are to start the flower drum opera seminar; six performing units from Jingmen, Hubei, Changsha, Yiyang, Zhuzhou, Shaoyang, Loudi and Yueyang plan to present excellent opera shows; “Flower drum style” fitness dance for the citizens, “Flower drum style” singer contest and some “Going to the countryside” events also are to take place. All these shows and exhibitions are free to the public and about over 1 million people will benefit from this festival.By Crystal

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