Taking “Cultural dream of Zhangjiajie” as its topic, 2013 ZJJ International Country Music Week forum will be hosted by famous Hunan TV compere Zhang Dandan. This forum will start from September 1st. Honored guests presenting in this forum will discuss cultural development of Zhangjiajie, analyzing the cultural dream of Zhangjiajie and offer advice and suggestions from different aspects such as music, architecture, sculpture, painting, literature, geography, city management and tourist performance.These invited 11 cultural celebrities include the president of Chinese Chess Academy and chairman of Chinese Chess Association Wang Runan, president of Chinese Religious Culture Communication Association Ye Xiaowen, national level an artist, also the creator of Martin Luther King statue Lei Yixin, national level a scripter and the founder of Chinese live action performance, dean of architecture and design college of Beijing University Yu Kongjian and famous musician Gao Xiaosong and so on.Translated by Becky

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Since the trial operation on July 5th, Zhangjiajie new recreational travel project Old Taoist Bay has totally received approximately ten thousand visitors from home and abroad.At present, the main construction of comprehensive service area at the gate is near the end. Important entertaining project Water-Park has entered the final crucial part. Field engineering has finished generally. It is estimated that the equipment installation and debugging will be conducted on August 15th.Water-Park will make full use of abundant water resource in Old Taoist Bay and offer a good entertaining place for swimming and being away from the hot weather. At the same time, unique tent accommodation business has been opened to public.Translated by Becky

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On August 10th, The No.10 trestle of Yangjiajie’s Passenger Ropeway is to be drawn to a close and the infrastructure establishment of the whole 14 trestles have entered the last step after 7 months’ construction.According to workers, the installment work of 14 trestles will be done at the end of this month. Besides, the main works of the high and low station buildings in Yang jiajie’s ropeway has been finished. And the passenger ropeway of Yangjiajie will meet tourists all around very soon.By Brenda

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On National Day, The first edition of Tourism law will take effect and civilized travel will be brought into tour contact. According to Da Bin, the dean of Chinese Tourism Academy, in an interview by forum on Making the Country Prosperous at people.com.cn, to further a civilized tourism through law and administrative means will be more effective and faster.Tourists are required to abide by civilized behavior regulations in the tourism law. And recently, to put civilized tourism into a tour contract to better rule tourists’ behavior is also proposed by the director of State Tourism Bureau. To be specific, Tourism Etiquette Rule for Chinese Citizens Travelling Abroad and Tourists Behavior Convention for Chinese travelling domestically are annexed to the contract.By Brenda

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On August 12th, according to resources, “Joyous Xiaoxiang., Happy Wulingyuan” masses artists performance final is to be shown at 9:00am on August 16th in Grand Theatre of beautiful Western Hunan Show.Participated by 15 teams from district systematic enterprises, townships and villages in the whole district and tourism enterprises, The“Joyous Xiaoxiang, Happy WUlingyuan” masses artists activities is sponsored by the district party committee, the district government, the district publicity department, The district administration of Culture, Sports, Radio, Film and Television, Press and Publications. 17 programs in various kinds of forms and contents including Tujia Waving Dance, folk songs, short sketch, Chinese folk art forms, scene play, sing with action and instrumental music performances are wrote, directed, acted by the masses, and then selected from the grassroots.This activity is aimed to show the cultural achievements of the masses, to fuel the development of excellent traditional culture, distinctive culture of Tujia and entertainment culture of the mass characters, to further the integration of tourism and culture, to improve the popularity of ZJJ Wulingyuan scenic spots so as to build an international leisure resort.By Brenda

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Hunan Travel Annals, compiled by Hunan Tourism Bureau, was officially published by China Travel & Tourism Press a few days ago. Covering a period of 61 years, from the year 1950 to 2011, it is the first report of its kind for the province. He Baoxiang, vice-governor Hunan, honored the book by writing its preface himself.With altogether over 880,000 Chinese characters in the book, its compilation took four years. . With annals like writing style, the book is supplemented by statements, records, figures and charts, etc. Subjects in the book are classified based on events. Presenting Hunan's tourism resources, planning, construction, market, services and management, education, training and scientific research, administrative institution and spiritual civilization, with seven pieces of articles, the 37 chapters in the chronicle objectively and comprehensively record the great progress achieved towards Hunan's tourism reform and development since the founding of the New China.The Hunan Tourism Annals not only systematically and comprehensively collects a fortune of spiritual tourism civilization, but also provides reliable historical facts, abundant and vivid materials for employees in the tourism system to understand, promote and use effectively to develop Hunan tourism. It plays an important role in promoting the construction of a province with strong tourism industry.Translator: He YaoSource: hunan.gov.cn

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Those Who Won the Awards of The National Scenery Photography Competition Will Get “Access Card ” from China Photographers AssociationOn August 13, the tourism administration of ZJJ Wulingyun releases that those who won the awards of the third ZJJ-Wulingyuan National Scenery Photography Competition will become the members of China Photographers Association.Sponsored by the people’s government of ZJJ Wulingyuan and the management office of ZJJ National Forest Park, and organized by Pop Photo periodical magazine and tourism administration of ZJJ Wulingyuan, the third ZJJ-Wulingyuan National Scenery Photography Competition lasted for one year with a total rewards of 403,000RMB for 185 photography works. These 185 photography works is a key requirement for joining China Photographers Association.Except this, preferential policy on ticket and transportation are also offered to the photographers who took the contest: the members from China Photographers Association can visit the core scenic spots without charge with exhibitor cards and their membership card(From July 1,2013 to June 30,2014); other photography group (including photography forum on the Internet) can apply to tourism administration of ZJJ Wulingyuan, and the members of the presidium can enjoy the policy A after approval.More preferential policy on the issue, please consult the tourism administration of ZJJ Wulingyuan. Hope you a happy visit in Zhangjiajie.By Crystal

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This year,ZJJ Wulingyuan staff have concentrated on upgrading project in Tianzi Mountain for bettering base installation, expanding visiting space and enriching scenery connotation. It is introduced that the first project focusing on renovating fast-food restaurants in Tianzi Mountain has been finished up to now. New Mcdonald’s has been opened to visitors. And the second project is under processing orderly.As reported, another important place that gathers a large amount of visitors all the time is mountain station of Tianzi ropeway. Now, it is under comprehensively decoration and will be opened to visitors before National Day. Overall decoration of Manager Room in Tianzi Mountain has been finished and will be come into use soon. Scutcheons have been updated. Besides, LED electronic displaying screen has been added in parking lot of Helong Park.Translated by Becky

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