From Oct 29th to Nov 5th, 2013 National Water-skiing Championship and Motorboat exhibition match will be held at the riverway of Li Water in Zhangjiajie city.More than 100 athletes from 14 teams including Hunan,Beijing and Zhejiang will participate nine items, such as triathlon with synchronized swimming, circle round and hopping and other combines. According to organizer, audience can not only enjoy the exciting water skiing competition and motorboat gripping ring racing, also appreciate breathtaking containing aqua show “pyramid”, “water ballet”, “flying dragon jumping out of the water”.It is informed that 2013 National Water-skiing Championship and Motorboat exhibition match will settle in Zhangjiajie, which is a perfect integrity of thrilling water skiing sports and world natural heritage. It will play a active role in enriching the intension of water skiing sports as well as promoting the tourism image of Zhangjiajie.The competition is sponsored by the state general administration of swater sports management center, China association of water-skiing,Hunan provincial sports bureau, and undertaken by ZJJ Municipal Government.By Brenda

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Themed "Enjoying Leisure in Taohuayuan (Peach Blossom Land)", the Changde Leisure Festival, one of the important activities of the 2013 Hunan International Tourism Festival, was held in Changde on September 18.According to Wu Caixia, deputy director of the Changde Municipal Tourism Bureau, nowadays leisure tourism is getting more and more popular. Changde, with rich resources in culture and leisure tourism, has made great efforts to build itself into a top-level leisure city in China through following the trend of leisure tourism. In the future, Changde will focus on setting up Taohuayuan brand, building Liuye Lake into a national 5A scenic spot, and promoting Changde into the best leisure city across the country.A photography competition on Changde's beautiful natural sceneries and cultural richness is set to be held. In addition, visitors are expected to enjoy some scenic spots in Changde free of charge during the festival.Translator: Wang XiaoluSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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In Sept 20th morning,ZJJ Yellow Dragon Cave ecological square is in full swing. The staff here are reaping with sickles or thrashing ears of rice with rice threshers and 25mu rice fields for sightseeing are ushering in a big harvest.At the scene of the grain harvest, with purple leaf rice, yellow leaf rice, black rice, fluorescent rice, hand in photograph reflect intermingled with each other, an enchanting sea of gold waves will jump into your eyes when you look around. According to the working staff, every time when the harvest season arrives, employees in Yellow Dragon Cave ecological square will be organized to harvest these field and this year’s rice production is about 12,000 jin which will be shipped to the restaurant of Yellow Dragon Cave later as the original ecological green food for tourists.“This idyllic scenery is so picturesque that we can hardly find a pure natural view in urban area comparable to it. I can enjoy a moment of peace far away from the armored concrete here” commented by Li qing, a tourist from Shanghai.ZJJ Yellow Dragon Cave ecological square was completed and put into service in 2009 and awarded the National Environmental Art in 2008. It was the pioneer to reclaim it green land using area to farmland.By Brenda

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Under the theme of “Caring City-Green Going-out activity”, “No Car On Sept 22” is a national call to enhance the awareness of environment protection. It aims to emphasize urban sustainable development, making people pay more attention to choose a green going-out lifestyle for the benefit of reducing energy consumption and influence for the pollutant to environment. On September 18th，ZJJ Government teams in charge of the activity release an initiative and appealed all the citizens to answer the call. During September 22, the cars for government use are prohibited, except cars on duty and special vehicles. So citizens should give up private cars and motorcycles, only choose public traffic, waking or bicycles.To be more specific, between 7:30 to 15:00, the prohibited place for private cars and motorcycles are Yongding urban area in Jiefang road, Huitong road and Renming road. The promotion materials and surveys for “No Car On Sept 22” will be issued to the citizens. They will also sign their names on the banners which advocated them a green going-out activity and increase the environmental protection awareness. For students in the downtown, they will watch a promotion video for that no car day and have booklets, which is to encourage them to living a low-carbon lifestyle.By Zumi

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According to Dependable source from Zhangjiajie official website, ZJJ Tianmenshan will cancel a special winter ticket priced at 225RMB in the period December 1 to February 28, implementing a common price ticket with 258RMB.The detailed policy is as follow:First, cancel the special winter ticket started between December 1 to February 28 and implement a common ticket with 258RMB (Including entrance fee of 75RMB, traffic fee 183RMB for cable and Eco-bus, but sightseeing top-cable is exception)Second, soldiers serving in the military, the disabled and the aged above 70 are accessible to favorable ticket price with 110RMB with effective certificate. Those who are not adult, students under the age of 24, the old between 60-70, officers serving in the military and very poor people with the lowest living bonus… are able to have a special tickets with 155RMB.Besides, A free ticket policy will fit for children with a height below 1.3 meters.Third, The one way ticket for Hanging chair cableway on the top of the mountain will cost 25RMB. For the people who can enjoy 155RMB mentioned above, they can have a favorable top-cable ticket price, that is 15RMB.By Zumi

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The Hongjiang ancient commercial town is a characteristic scenic spot in China's Hunan Province.The town boasts more than 380 intact ancient structures erected during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, covering an area of 100,000 square meters. The buildings endured the ages with some wear, but they remain vivid reminders of the luxurious lifestyle of wealthy merchants.(China.org.cn)Source:Xinhua.

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Hunan Province opened its first mining and industry tourism attraction, Baoshan National Mine Park in Guiyang County, Chenzhou City, to tourists on September 16.Accredited by the Ministry of Land and Resources as a national mine park with rich historical culture in 2011, Baoshan National Mine Park is one of the 20 key tourism projects sponsored by Hunan’s “251 Program” (a program designed to fund 20, 50 and 100 tourism projects respectively at the provincial, municipal, and county level)The park covers an area of 7.8 square kilometers, including a core area of 1.48 square kilometers. With a planned total investment of 0.47 billion yuan, the park is equipped with one center and seven different function zones, namely a visitor center, a mine garden, metallurgy observation zone, pit exploration zone, open-pit mining zone, mining and metallurgy expo park, training camp, and mining and smelting garden.According to its overall plan, the park aims to forge itself into a 4A level national scenic spot in five years, and a 5A level one in the future.Translator: Liu FenSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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On September 15, Austrian extreme sportsman Michael Kemeter, nicknamed “spider-man”, successfully climbed the tallest building of Changsha—Beichen Times Square, 268 meters high, without protection. After reaching the top of the building, he finished an extreme challenge of super-low-level skydiving with a leap into the air.Located at the bank of the Xiangjiang River in Changsha, the Beichen Times Square is structured with totally enclosed glass wall, with refuge floors in the 15th and 30th floors fully covered  with windows. Sponsors had set up a protective net in these two floors to provide rest places for Kemeter. Depending on perfect coordination of soles, knees and arms, he climbed the glass wall and metal strips. After nearly 50 minutes, he successfully reached the top of the building.Kemeter, pleased with the success of his first show in China, praised the beauty of Changsha and expected more extreme challenges in other cities of China.Michael Kemeter climbing the building. Translator: Hao JingruSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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