During the 2013 Zhangjiajie International Country Music Week, 22 international bands representing 20 countries coming from five continents and 8 Chinese bands performed at some popular tourist attractions, at different altitudes in Zhangjiajie including Huanglong Cave, Baofeng Lake, Tianzi Mountain and Xibu Ancient Street. These intoxicating country music feasts lured more than 10,000 overseas and domestic tourists.Tour performances are one of the theme activities of this music week. According to Chief of the festival's direction crew, the altitudes of all alpine music stages were first marked, which added to the excitement of the performers and the audiences.This activity exhibited the perfect integration of world country music, Zhangjiajie's fascinating natural beauty and the unique alpine stages. It brought the irresistible charm of the "Alpine Music" to the audience and tourists, deepened their understanding about country music and enhanced their impression of scenic spots of the host city as well as bands' performances."Alpine Music" has become another highlight, increasing popularity of Wulingyuan world natural heritage site around the world.Translator: Guo YanSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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Nearly 200 Harley-Davidson Motor riders from home and abroad gathered in Changsha on the evening of August 30 to set out to the main venue of the 2013 Zhangjiajie International Country Music Week, 300-plus kilometers away. The perfect combination for riding and music brought fashionable element to the event. Translator: Tang LiSource: Hunan Official Web Portal   

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On September 3, Ronghua, The district committee secretary of Beijing Shijingshan district along other seven personnel come to Zhangjiajie for survey. They conduct informal discussion and field trip on scene dictrict program, development and construction, operation management and operate mode. Relevant officers from Zhangjiajie attend the forum.At the afternoon of September 3, Shijingshan District·ZJJ held a friendly forum on work communication. In the forum, Dengjian, vice-governor of Zhangjiajie introduces the basic information of Wulingyuan to the visiting group in terms of scene management system, natural heritage protection and tourism development. Sishangguo, The vice-chairman of Shijingshan district CPPCC, presents the basic information of Shijingshan district in terms of effective integration of resources, discovery of history and culture and the formation of industry chain. The two parties carry out large contacts on tourism trend, difficulty of development and future direction. Chen Danfeng, member of Zhangjiajie’s standing committee and deputy mayor elaborates on Zhangjiajie’s future outlook on development, and gives successful tourism marketing cases.During the three-day trip, The personnel from Beijing pay field trips to Tianzi Mount, Yuanjiajie, Golden Whip Stream, Gaint-salamander museum, Yellow Dragon cave, Bao feng Lake and Tianmen Mount, and appreciate the Charming Western Hunan and Tianmen Fairy Fox–New Liuhai Chops firewoods.By Crystal

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Since 2nd September, The flights from Zhangjiajie to Nanjing have restarted. During this July and August,the flights have been canncelled for the operation adjustments.By report, the restarted flights will be on operate for every day.With the number of  CZ3925, the flight sets off at 20:53 in Zhangjiajie Lotus Airport and arrives at Nanjing at 22:25.The returen flight starts at 23:15 and reaches at Zhangjiajie at 00:55 the next morning with the number of CZ3926.The price of this flight is 940 per person at present, individual travelers can enjoy forty percent discount preferencial tickets. The officical website csair.com or service line 95539 is accessible for every travler for tickets booking.By Aileen

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A cultural forum, part of the 2013 Zhangjiajie International Country Music Week, opened in the Hallelujah Concert Hall, Yellow Dragon Cave Scenic Spot, Zhangjiajie, on the morning of September 1. Nine celebrities from different sectors put forward suggestions on the city's cultural and tourism development, from the perspective of music, photography, chess, geography, architecture, sculpture, landscape, industry, etc., winning great applause from the audience of nearly 2,000.The guests thought that culture is the key to the transformation of tourism industry.Xu Yousheng, director of the Publicity Department of the CPC Hunan Provincial Committee, has always paid great attention to the cultural development of Zhangjiajie. He suggested that the city should combine its charming scenery with rich culture to integrate the development of culture and tourism in the western Hunan. Lei Yixin, designer of the Martin Luther King sculpture, said that as there is space for sculpture art development in Zhangjiajie, the city should possess its own symbolic sculpture.Translator: Lv XuefenSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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Unique Mei river scenic spot, “King of Medicine Mount”–Longshan national forest park, “Millennium ancient town”–former home groups of Hunan Army…These scenic spots and essences of cultural heritages are taken into shot by The Home Village Column of CCTV, as its materials of feature film. According to Moqifeng, the scenarist of the column, this program has come to the last period of production and will present soon before.The materials gathering for Home Village feature film lasts for 39 days from July 23 to August 30, including 23 days fro field shot.Five people including the scenarist joins the shot and over 2,000 crews, assistant personnel and figurants from Lianyuan city take part in the shot. There are 300 scenes and 4,000 sets of shots with a total camera time of 972 minutes.According to Mo qifeng, it is planed to shot for ten days with the Mei river scenery and folk customs as major parts.“But when explore the sites, we discover that the natural scenery and folk culture there are worth recommending, so our shot fields are expanding with the ultimate 13 scenic regions, 120 scenic spots, 12 intangible cultural heritages and folk cultures, which turn the materials into a sixteen-hour film.”It is reported that it is not the first time for The Home Village Column of CCTV to come to Lianyuan. It broadcasted Three Odds of Yang jia tan and Millennium Ancient Town Yangjiatan on April 16 and August 6 respectively, which arose unprecedented attention to Lianyuan’s beautiful natural scenery and massive folk culture by different social circles.Besides, Home Village Column will offer these materials that gathered in Lianyuan this year to Lianyuan city for making tourism image advertising video freely.By Crystal

News 2013-09-03 21:48 View：1174

On September 1st, “2013 ZJJ International Country Music Week Culture Forum” is observed grandly in Hallelujah music hall of Yellow Dragon Cave, Wulingyuan scenic spot. Xu yousheng, A member of Hunan standing committee and the director of Hunan propaganda sector, and other eight guest from different circles deliver their advice to Zhangjiajie’s culture and tourism development in terms of music, entertainment, photography, chess, geography and architecture.It is said this is the first culture forum since the music week has been held for three times and Zhang dandan, the famous compere in Hunan hosts the forum. It is worth mentioning that these nine guests have tightly bound to Zhangjiajie. Xu yousheng have been Zhangjiajie for many times and pays much attention to Zhangjiajie’s culture development; Yang guangrong, Zhangjiajie Municipal Party Committee Secretary, is scholar-oriented officer who has studied on the development road to culture and tourism; Gao xiaosong is the art director of the music week; Yu kongjian who is the first doctor that studied in America and the professor of Peking University designed the Hallelujah music hall; Mei yuanshuai, the creator of live show developed and directors the first landscape live musical drama in the world…After the forum started, nine guests actively come up with suggestions to Zhangjiajie’s culture and tourism development and may a brighter future to Zhangjiajie. The guests’ wonderful speech and unique views push the atmosphere to a new high and arise blasts of applauses.By Crystal

News 2013-09-03 21:15 View：1134

Recently, taking advantage of attending 2013 Zhangjiajie International Country Music Week, Deputy minister of Culture Ministry Dongwei came to inspect Zhangjiajie intangible cultural heritage. Director of Hunan Department of Culture Zhu Jiangang, vice director of Hunan Department of Culture Xiao Lingzhi and deputy mayor of Zhangjiajie City Tian Huayu also participated in the investigation.According to statistics, Now Zhangjiajie owns 10 kinds, more than 730 intangible cultural heritages, such as folk music, folk dance and traditional manual skills and so on. There are 433 inheritors of intangible cultural heritage above the county level. Sangzhi folk songs, Zhangjiajie Yang Opera, Bai Zhanggu dance have been listed in national intangible cultural heritages protection catalogue.In Tujia Folk Customs Park, Dongwei watched Tujia waving dance, Maogusi, Nuoyuan Opera and other folk performances and visited some traditional displays of Tujia wedding customs, Tujia headwear and costumes, batik and picture-weaving in silk. Dong Wei fully confirmed Zhangjiajie’s inheritance and protection work in the field of intangible cultural heritage and encouraged all performers to keep carrying forward national treasures in the future.Translated by Becky

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