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

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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

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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

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Recently, The ninety-nine bending“Broad Road to Heaven”of ZJJ Tianmen Mount welcomes 13 self-driving team composed of Infiniti cars. Driving from the entance to the Tianmen Carve, these drivers are extremly excited and nervus on the 180°sharp turns. Focused on their steering wheels, they experience an unforgettable and exciting “A Journey on the Heaven Road”in the accordance of the safety requirements.According to the introduction, these drivers come from Guangdong, and organize a self-driving group. The biggest task of this journey is to challenge the ninety-nine bending“Broad Road to Heaven” of ZJJ Tianmen Mount. Before that, they also challenged many tough roads both of home and abroad. But the journey in Zhangjiajie makes them truly feel the pleasant sensation of driving.Famous for its “breathtaking, thrilling and dangerous”“The Broad Road to Heaven” has ranked the top of “The most dangerous highway inventory in the world”. On August 17th, “Decisive battle–drift contest on the heaven road” will be kicked off in“The Broad Road to Heaven” of ZJJ Tianmen Mount. The most excellent Chinese drifter, Deng zhilun and the best riders, the Italian FEDERICO SCERIFFO will strive for “the King of Heaven Road Drifter”. This crazy contest is bound to evoke many driver lovers’ enthusiasm. If you are interested in the event, come and join us!Translated by Crystal

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On July 25, hosted by professor Liu si, the doctoral supervisor of  Central South University and counsellor of Hunan’s people’s government, the project assessment meeting –A Study on Development Strategy of ZJJ Giant Salamander is held in Hunan University of Commerce. Professor Liu mao song, the doctoral supervisor of Hunan Normal University and other five professors of economics hold the post of experts of the assessment meeting. The animal husbandry and veterinary administration and gold salamanders engineering company have sent representatives to attend the meeting. In order to boost the development of “ZJJ Giant Salamander”, ZJJ is aimed to build ZJJ Giant Salamander into a new name card of ecological civilization. On Octerber 2012, ZJJ animal husbandry and veterinary administration entrusted the Institute of economic and trade development of Hunan University of Commerce to develop a study on development strategy of ZJJ giant salamander. The experts have visited ZJJ’s giant salamander breeding enterprises and carry out careful research. Through comparisons and analysis, A Study on Development Strategy of  ZJJ Giant Salamander and Brand Image Design and Promotion Plan on ZJJ Giant Salamander have been worked out. The expert group agree that the systematic study, plan and methods on the development on ZJJ’s giant salamander brand embody strong operationbility, which can act as a descion reference on the strategy of developing ZJJ’s giant salamander brand. Translated by Crystal

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On July 29th,Changsha Economic and Technology Development Zone(Changsha ETDZ) and Zhangjiajie Economic and Technology Development Zone(ZJJ ETDZ) signs the strategic cooperative Frame agreement in Changsha, and after consultation, they consent to establish a national Zhangjiajie industrial park of Changsha ETDZ in Zhangjiajie ETDZ. Zhang yinchun, member of Changsha standing committee and deputy mayor, Xu xianhui, deputy secretary of municipal party committee of Zhangjiajie and deputy mayor and other relevant personnel attend the signing ceremony.On the ceremony, on behalf of their own parties, Li mingke, the director of management committee of Changsha ETDZ, and Sheng lixin, party committee secretary of ZJJ ETDZ sign the contract. The cooperative measurements embody the following:1.Zhangjiajie industrial park of Changsha ETDZ enjoys the brand and relevant policy of Changsha ETDZ, and under the assistance of Changsha ETDZ on the planning and construction of the industrial park, both the two parties impel investment promotion and strengthen industrial cooperation, investment cooperation and personnel exchanges.2.Changsha ETDZ is responsible in introducing the supporting companies that providing business and related business that is in line with the demand of ZJJ ETDZ.3.Mainly bring in and develop electronic information, food and beverage, new energy, new material and biological medicine, etc. There should be mutual understanding and recommendation in terms of investment promotion and lead relevant business to settle in ZJJ ETDZ.4.Personnel should be exchanged between the two parties on a suitable occasion, contacting in company development, investment promotion, financing and planning, etc.During the ceremony, Yang guangrong, municipal standing committee of Zhangjiajie, and Xu xianhui, deputy secretary of municipal party committee of Zhangjiajie and deputy mayor meet with Zhang yinchun, member of Changsha standing committee and deputy mayor.Translated by Crystal

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Zhangjiajie has built up a gorgeous performance stage for the coming 2013 International Country Music Week, which will kick off in August 31, according to the organizing committee of the event on July 24.Since initiated in 2011, the annual event has proved a successful tourism marketing program for promoting Zhangjiajie's international popularity with the sharp rise of tourists. The five-day music feast will attract about 400 performers from 24 overseas bands and six domestic bands, more than 200 journalists and thousands of guests. It will be much larger and more spectacular than the previous two sessions. Besides the exciting opening and closing ceremonies as well as gala nights, the highlight will be the tour performances escorted by nearly 200 domestic and overseas Harley-Davidson motors from Changsha to Zhangjiajie, arousing publicity stunt. Government departments at all levels in the tourism city are making full preparations to present a higher-level, unique and more influential international music feast.Translator: Guo YanSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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On July 30th, a self-driving team with 13 Infiniti cars had a visit to Tianmen Mountain to challenge the tortuous road with 99 twists. As far as the car driver’s concerned, they really had a brilliant and risky journey. According to the charger of the team, they had experienced many steep roads ever, but the road in Tianmen Mountain really made them feel very exciting and fabulous.Being astonishing, unusual and dangerous, the road often tops as the most risky road among the world by media at home and abroad. On August 17th, a battle for the king of car racer will go to the public. At that time, Deng Zhilun-the most excellent Chinese drift driver in Hong Kong, FEDERICO SCERIFFO-the first class car racer in Europe will compete against “the king of car racer”. It definitely will be a feast for car-driving lovers. Let us just wait and see.By Emma

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