The 2013 China (Zhangjiajie) International Forest Protection Festival is scheduled to be held on October 12. Its core theme is developing ecologically-friendly industries. On the morning of September 11, the Forestry Department of Hunan Province and the Zhangjiajie Municipal People’s Government jointly held a press conference regarding the matter in Changsha.Zhangjiajie Forest Protection Festival is said to be the only non-profit festival activity across the country focusing on the subject of ecological civilization and forest protection. After twenty-two years’ efforts, it has now transformed into a grand event publicizing ecological civilization, sharing experiences in forest protection and developing green industry.At the moment, Zhangjiajie is seen as the largest and functionally complete forest tourist area providing the most benefits. In 2012, more than 23 million tourists were attracted there, accounting for almost two thirds of the municipal total (35.9 million). Its sightseeing, leisure and rehabilitation resources appealed to most tourists from home and abroad. Last year, the output value of forest tourism of Zhangjiajie exceeded 16 billion yuan.It was revealed at the conference that the film “Dream in Zhangjiajie”, the first of its kind to show development of the national forest park, will also be premiered at the festival.Translator: Zhang MinsiSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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“Going to Tibet in motors will be the most unforgettable memory in my life!” exclaimed from Shuangqi Liu who just came back to Zhangjiajie from Tibet on September 10. Excitements express in his face when he talks about riding motor toTibetalone. It is said Shuangqi Liu set out from Wulingyuan on August 26 and arrived in the Potala palace inLhasacity on September 7 after a twelve-day journey across five provinces. The whole journey covers 3,000 km. Then he came back to Zhangjiajie by air on September 9th.Shuangqi Liu, 24 years old, works in Zhangjiajie Charming Western Hunan Grand Theater and likes playing computers and riding motors. Traveling to Tibet is his biggest dream. He set out on August 26th and started his single journey after made farewell to his families. He says it was planed to take 5 days to arrive in Tibet, but there were many road repairs and it became more difficult to walk with the altitude increased; besides his motor broke down in Sichuan and he bought a new one to resume his journey, thus it took 12 days to arrive in Tibet. “Tough as it is, I met with many motor-cyclers and recommended ZJJ’s beautiful scenery to them, so I am very happy!” indicates Shuangqi Liu.Shuangqi Liu says frankly he will work hard in his future work and expresses his gratitude to the support from his families and friends. He also wishes to set up a reception station for motor-cyclers, offering more convenience to national motor-cyclers’ traveling to Zhangjiajie.By Crystal

News 2013-09-10 23:02 View：954

Have you ever known the existence of spine grapes? It is a kind of wild grapes and harvested in September.Spine grape is an important wild plants in South China. The oldest spine grape vine in Huaihua,Hunan has broken the Guinness records with a longevity of 120 years.For spine grape vines, it is not easy to live for 20 years,let alone 120 years.Spine grapes have various kinds of functions.First of all, they are edible and delicious;secondly, they have medical value for the polyphenolic content and antioxidant activity extracted from wild spine grape trees in winter;thirdly, seed oils can be extracted from spine grape seeds and some wines are made of spine grapes.On September 15th, the opening ceremony of the first China·Huaihua Spine Grape Festival will be held in Huaihua.Travelers are welcomed to join it.You can taste the spine grapes for free and drink spine grape wines as well as visit the plantation.Spine grape,the name comes from the spines on its vine.By Aileen

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Through the water, journalists saw some creatures in group. They are dancing freely in the water. Sometimes they float to the water surface to enjoy sunshine and sometimes they archly sink into the water. It seems peach blossoms blossom one after another in the water after breeze. This is famous freshwater jellyfish.According to data, freshwater jellyfish is the most original and the lowest invertebrate coelenterate on earth. It was born about 0.65 billion years ago. So it is a kind of creature living fossil. They usually have high demands on living environment. That is to say, they can only survive in water which has no-pollution water quality. Usually, they appear for a short period of time and are not easy to be found. Cili Zhaojiaya Reservoir has been built 37 years ago. Since 2008, there appears freshwater jellyfish every September and October.Translated by Becky

News 2013-09-10 21:48 View：970

Jishou Municipal Tourism Bureau of Xiangxi Tujia & Miao Autonomous Prefecture announced that Jishou was crowned as one of the Top Ten Tourism Destinations with Folk Characteristics in Greater China, an item of the Golden Travel Award of Asian Tourism at the 19th Golden Travel Award of Asian Tourism & the Conference of Tourism and Culture Award in Greater China.Mainly hosted by the Federation Asia Traveling Culture and held for 19 times since 1995, the Golden Travel Award of Asian Tourism is now one of the important awards in Asian-Pacific tourism circle. The award ceremony turns into a top class Asian travel award ceremony and a high-level platform for brand communication.With the ceremony themed "Chinese Style & Chinese Affection", its organization committee assessed 149 national scenic spot candidates through their environment, distinctive culture, leisure lifestyle, natural scenery, environmental protection, management innovation, supporting services, guiding brands, responsibility assumption and talent management. Jishou stood out after five procedures of local or organizational recommendation, parent organization nomination, online voting, and experts scoring.Translator: Zhu MengxiaSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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Several days ago, Zhangjiajie square singing contest officially kicked off.Taking “singing happily, showing Chinese dream” as it theme, 2013 Zhangjiajie square singing contest was sponsored by Yongding Civilization Office and Mango Radio– Sound of Zhangjiajie and co-organized by Rednet (Zhangjiajie) and Tencent. Zhangjiajie square singing contest is opened to everybody, no restriction of age or singing style. One more thing, tutors will give one-to-one specialized guidance to all contestants this year.Four ways of enrolling:1.Call registration hotline 0744—8211932 of Mango Radio–Sound of Zhangjiajie.2.Log in Rednet (Zhangjiajie channel) or Sina Leju site (Zhangjiajie channel) and enter into Zhangjiajie square singing contest’s activity area to fill in on-line application form.3.Send micro log topic @ 2013 Square singing contest and @ Registration content and @ Mango Radio–Sound of  Zhangjiajie or Zhangjiajie Leju site.4.Send registration information to public Wechat account radio932 or zjjleju.Translated by Becky

News 2013-09-09 21:45 View：771

Recently, The award ceremony of newly-established agent point for certificate of origin to China’s export goods and training class related to certificate of origin business knowledge were held in Zhangjiajie downtown. This represents Zhangjiajie council for the promotion of international trade will take the responsibility of related work in the certificate of origin to China’s export goods and Zhangjiajie enterprises can handle this certificate in Zhangjiajie from now on.This will do much to help better the open economy service and drive foreign trade in Zhangjiajie. At the same time, open economy will also be promoted.Translated by Becky

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From August 29th, 2013 to September 1st, With a group,Hunan Tourism Bureau comes to Shijiazhuang,Hebei for attending the 18th North Travel Fair.Under the joint sponsor of tourism sectors from Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Shandong, Henan, Liaoning, Heilongjiang, The North Travel Fair is a vita platform for regional exchanges and cooperation on tourism. Themed with “Intelligent tourism; integrated development”, The fair attracts 30 provinces, cities and municipalities across China and over 1,000 travel agencies from 21 countries and regions such as America, Russia, Korea and Taiwan with 26,000 representatives. Except traditional tourism management agencies, tourism hotels, scenic spots, the subject of the fair attracts airlines, automotive&boats and cultural units, as well as some tourism development and study sectors, educational sectors and media and publishers join in, which make it the fair that covers the largest scale, maximum of attendants and the most completed tourism factors.Since the operation of Beijing-Guangzhou high-speed rail in 2012, with the rapid increases of passenger flow along the rail, this fair particularly sets up a booth for the promotion of high-speed rail market, displaying the tourism products along the Beijing-Guangzhou high-speed rail. Thus Hunan Tourism Bureau takes the fair as a chance to promote the tourism products along the high-speed rails. During the fair, the promotion team from Hunan draw merits from others, contact with tourism sectors along the Beijing-Guangzhou high-speed rail, actively visit clients, carefully response to visitor’s consultation and distribute 20,000 propaganda materials, which obtain a good effect.By Crystal

News 2013-09-08 15:55 View：1107