China and Malaysia vowed to further boost relations and cooperation on the basis of bilateral achievements made in recent years. During his meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Thursday, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said despite progress in all-round cooperation, bilateral relations still have great potential and a broad horizon. China is Malaysia's largest trading partner, Najib said, and the two countries are making good progress in cooperations in various fields. The two sides have joint industrial parks, their defense cooperation is on a steady launch, and more and more Chinese tourists are coming to Malaysia. Najib commended that the Malaysia-China relations have become an example of mutual beneficial and win-win cooperation, and China is increasingly exerting greater influence on Malaysia's economy and society. The Malaysian prime minister said his government is willing to push for greater development of bilateral ties by joining hand with the new Chinese administration and taking the opportunity of the 40th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations in 2014. Wang Yi, who was on a one-day visit to Malaysia, said that comprehensive, stable and pragmatic progress has been achieved in the strategic bilateral cooperation thanks to the hardwork by leaders of several generations, bringing important interest for both countries while making positive contribution to peaceful and stable regional development. Wang said that China-Malaysia relations is standing at a new starting point with significant opportunities for development. Wang told Najib that the new Chinese administration attaches great importance to the further development of ties with Malaysia, and considers Malaysia as a trustworthy partner for long-term cooperation. He said both sides should continue their high level exchanges. Meanwhile, the two countries should expand cooperation in areas like trade, investment, infrastructure, agriculture, fishery and aerospace programs, he said. Specifically, the two sides should boost the construction of Qinzhou industrial park in China and Kuantan industrial park in Malaysia. The two countries should also increase exchange in areas like law enforcement, defense, technology, education, culture and tourism, Wang also called for joint efforts to render the 40th anniversary celebration of the establishment of diplomatic ties and the "China - Malaysia Friendly Exchange Year" a success. Wang also met with his Malaysian counterpart Anifah Aman on Thursday. They agreed to grasp the direction of the development of China-ASEAN cooperation and maintain the peace and stability in the South China Sea. Malaysian Prime Minister Nazib Tun Razak (R) shakes hands with visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Putrajaya, Malaysia, Aug. 1, 2013.Source: xinhuanet

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In order to prepare for the activity “Hong Kong enterprises enter western Hunan” and comprehensively deploy all prophase preparatory work, a working conference was held in Zhangjiajie lately.For the sake of consolidating the achievement gained previously and trying to invite investment to Wuling Mountainin Hunan Province, they are planned to invite Hong Kong famous enterprises to come to Hunan Province from November 4th to 9th, 2013 according to the instruction of main leaders in provincial government. They will focus on investment investigation in Zhangjiajie, Huaihua and three citystates in western Hunan.In this conference, the event planning related to Hong Kong enterprises’ entering Western Hunan and the inform about strengthening exploitation of project proposals for investment (both were discussion paper) were discussed intensively.Translated by Becky

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Though it has only been built for 25 years, Zhangjiajie has become one of the most representational important scenic spots in China. Last year, Zhangjiajie received about 35.9 million visitors, gaining a tourist income of above 20.8 billion yuan.However, Zhangjiajie people still keep sober since they know many questions are there, such as the overall qualities of tourist industry is not high and tourist product structure tends to be single in Zhangjiajie. At the same time, domestic and overseas tourism enjoy flourishing development, pilot project of Chinese comprehensive tourist reform offer Zhangjiajie rare development opportunities.After demonstrating repeatedly, Zhangjiajie municipal party committee put forward a overall goal “constructing a well-known resort at home and abroad”. Municipal party secretary Yang Guangrong told the journalist confidently that an upgraded Zhangjiajie means changing Zhangjiajie to a well-known resort at home and abroad and making Zhangjiajie become a more shining brand for Hunan Province.Translated by Becky

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According to some information, Baofeng lake resort is located in Wulingyuan xiehe township. Because baofeng temple was built in the song dynasty, it has the great name. With synergistic reservoir as a starting point, baofeng mountain as the finish line, wulingyuan international integrated resort tourism culture construction according to landform characteristics and in terms of stereoscopic development, try to build a financial landscape sightseeing, leisure and entertainment in a body’s large-scale comprehensive cultural tourism resort projects, which covers an area of about 5000 mu.Within the resort construction, it will set up five-star resort hotel, film and TV culture scenic area, zhangjiajie international cultural creative area, scenic sports park, folk happy town project. It will introduce “Chinaeconomic BBS “50 people, the elderly Chinese BBS”, to build “Zhangjiajie international art exchange center”, “Zhangjiajie festival” and outdoor sporting events festivals.Wulingyuan international comprehensive cultural tourism resort stands in baofeng mountain. It will accelerate the construction process of wulingyuan international tourism leisure resort, give more colorful zhangjiajie tourism products, and improve the grade of zhangjiajie tourism.Translated by Sophia

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Since the 2013 international country music week is going to be kicked off in August, on July 30, the security and safety personnel come to the performance venue for on-scene inspection and make initial deployment for on-scene policy strength.The security group successively visits the opening ceremony of the music week in Yellow Dragon Cave; check campfire party scene in Xibu street; and examine the closing ceremony scene of Tianmen Fairy Fox. They learn the preparation state of many scenic spots and carry out careful inspections on the scenes.On the security deployment meeting for the music week, relevant personnel from Zhangjiajie PSB requests the participating members should pay high attention on the event, clarify target and responsibility and key jobs; the city and county PSB and policy offices take pains to organize the security job and make sure a successful music week.By Crystal

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On July 27th, under the joint efforts from many relevant sectors, the first Hunan(Yuanling) Mountain & Water Sports festival is opened in the beautiful Youshui bank–Hunan Yuanling. Combined with various items of outdoors sports, such as cliff hiking, river trekking, mountain-climbing, drift and cycling, the leisure and tourism festival attracts thousand of outdoors amateurs to experience Yuanling’s tourism resources and appreciate the local folk customs.Themed with “Laughing at Hei mu cliff, boating race in Youshui river”, and by holding semi-professional and embodying-all outdoors sports, the activity is aimed to promote Yuanling’s unique landscape resources, built up excellent outdoors routes for tourism in Yuanling and boost great-leap-forward development on Yuanling’s ecological and cultural tourism.The main parts of this event fall into competitive events and experience activities, including six them activities. The competitive events embody: canoeing drift in the cleanest waters–Youshui river for experiencing swimming in the paint; dragon boat race, tasting the traditional dragon boat contest; climbing Er You mount, scaling 999 steps of the cultural holy mount. The experience activities include exploring secrets in Suxi; hiking for enjoying gully scenery of the national natura reserve zone–Jie mu xi; mountain bike cycling; cliff through.Liu zhi liang, county party secretary of Yuanling indicates that the combination of sports,leisure and tourism is very suitable to let the citizens and tourists take part in. Its successful organization initiates the form of sports, leisure and tourism in Hunan, at the same time, it recommends Yuanling and makes it receive large attention by the form of outdoors sports, which plays a vital role in building up a differential tourism product and brand of “Enjoy mountains in Zhangjiajie, play with water in Yuanling”.Translated by Crystal

News 2013-08-04 13:51 View：930

Leijia invited by the 2013 Zhangjiajie international country music group will come to Zhangjiajie for site selection, stage arrangement, sound location and stage design. According to the report, during the music festival, she will hold a personal live music concert in Zhangjiajie mountains, with the stage of natural heritage, taking xiangxi culture as the background.Giving a personal concert on this miraculous land, is a dream of her! The live concert will combine music with the world natural heritage, which gives the audience a brand-new perspective. That is to say, let more people like music, like nature, like zhangjiajie.Translated by Sophia

News 2013-08-03 13:47 View：974

The latest nationwide report on China's cultural sector, entitled the "2013 China Cultural Industry Development Index," reveals that Beijing has achieved the best performance in terms of cultural industry development. The report, released on July 30, aims to provide detailed statistics of the cultural development across Chinese provinces and cities, and give a full analysis of the country’s cultural sector. Beijing tops the ranking with a score of 82.75, followed by Guangdong Province and Zhejiang Province. Released jointly by Shanghai Jiao Tong University's National Innovation and Development Base and the China Culture Index Research Center, this year’s report is based on the 2011 statistics as it takes a long time to collect the data and carry out the analysis. The development of China's cultural industry is generally steady, the report indicated. The overall index in 2011 was 128.70, dropping 2.74 percent from 2010's 131.44. The state-owned cultural companies remain the primary force in the industry, but the private cultural enterprises are becoming more efficient in utilizing funds. Many factors were included in the evaluation criteria such as cultural market development and cultural innovation. The following are the top 10 Chinese provinces and cities in terms of cultural industry development：Beijing，Guangdong Province，Zhejiang Province，Jiangsu Province，Qingdao，Shanghai，Tianjin Province，Hunan Province，Fujian Province， Liaoning Province. Source:China.org

News 2013-08-03 13:43 View：951