Wuliang Ancestral Temple, whose restoration was completed on July 21, stands at the Economic Development Zone of Dongkou County. Known as "Home of Ancestral Temple in China", Dongkou County of Hunan Province boasts hundreds of well-preserved ancient temple complexes. Having unique folk styles and geographic features, they each are noble, magnificent and awesome outside and exquisite, simple and elegant inside. The ancestral temples serve as miracles of vernacular architecture and historical and cultural heritages. Not long before, eleven temple complexes of the county were listed as key cultural relics sites under the state protection.Translator: Zhang MinsiSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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According to the source from Zhangjiajie official website,ZJJ Wulingyuan scenic spot has become the first tourist destination for students since the upcoming of July. Students not only can enjoy favorable or free ticket price, but also go on a ecological and healthy trip. Therefore, a flood of students came to Wulingyuan on their summer vocation, becoming a bright spot in the eyes of travelers.Students overwhelmed Wulingyuan scenic area since the upcoming of summer Vocation; Family tour increasing since the summer vocation;Students expereincing ecological and healthy travel.By Emma

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Walking along the Golden Whip Stream in Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, you can fully enjoy brisk and coolness here with green shade covering path, breeze whispering to you and murmuring flowing streams playing light music for you. A student from Guangdong Province with great delight said:”How fresh the air is. How cool the water is. I like here very much”.Since June 1st, the core scenic zone of Zhangjiajie has implemented policy that worldwide primary and secondary students are free to visit. Students with company of family have become a great team in Zhangjiajie tourism market. According to statistics of ticket administration office of Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, on July 20th, the number of people visiting the park is 8021. On July 21st, the number is 6528. Tourists are mainly Hunan Province. There are also a lot of tourists from Shandong,Beijing,Henan,Jiangsu Province,and so on.In order to create better tourism environment for tourists, Zhangjiajie National Forest Park Administration Office has provided better service. Aiding and Service Call is open to all tourists. Besides, volunteering consultation station, medical service stand, auto-mobile service center, insurance management center, large-scale parking lot and other kinds of tourism services and facilities are supplied to best meet tourists’ needs and demands.By Patricia

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On July, 12th, according to information from a dispatch meeting on Wulingyuan Key projoect construction, the establishment of ZJJ Wulingyuan Visitor Center, with a total investment of 360 million will be launched this year. It is said that once the project has been completed, the biggest parking center in Hunan which possesses an area of 55557 square meters and 715 carports including 492 stalls for cars comes out. It can holds 100,000 cars at the same time.As is said by its principal, the visitor center will be planned ecologically, culturally and humanizedly as to abide by the planning principles. It is aimed to show the features of ZJJ landform and folk customs and become one of the comprehensive tourists service centers characterized by international standards and local colors through high standards of tourism service facilities, distinct image of scenic area entrance, the perfect traffic distribution system.By Brenda

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In July this year, with the upcoming of summer vocation of the middle and primary school and colleges, Zhangjiajie Tianmen Mount witnesses a summer tourism peak, and family groups and individual tourists take up mainly.In middle summer, Tianmen Mount is with fresh breeze blowing from mountains and jade-green trees. The tourists enjoy the freshness and cozy of the “forest oxygen bar”amid brushes; the glass plank road, Ghost path and volley glass platform are teemed with tourists; they release the excitements of experiencing Tianmen Mount journey, even scream and cry out when they come to the top of the cliff.Special tips:The Tianmen Mount offers preferential tickets to students in a year-round, including child under 1.3 meters with free charge, and students under the ages of 24 enjoying concessionary tickets with student ID cards. The two dimension code of “Tianmen Mount smart guide” have been printed on nameplates and propaganda materials of the scenic spots. Tourists can briefly learn about the excellent scenic spots and routes as long as they scan the two dimension code with phones and they can make their unique Tianmen Mount journey.Translated by Crystal

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The Biggest Mailbox Built up in Japan to Propagandize the Charm of Paper Letters According to Asahi Shimbun, the copy of the mailbox made by the students from faculty of engineering of Yamaguchi University in Japan is honored “the biggest mailbox in the world ”by Guinness World Records.The highest point of the mailbox is 7.2 meters, the horizontal length is 3.6 meters and the longitudinal length 3 meters, with volume of 68 cubic meters, which highs by 5 cubic meters than the former world record.Finished in November last year, the mailbox is placed in the park of Yubu city, shankou county. The maker of the mailbox hopes to propagandize the charm of paper letters through the “big guy”, while the E-mail lacks such kind of charm. From July 20 to September, people can use this mailbox to send off their letters. The students of making the mailbox indicate that they want to express the deepest thoughts of love to the most important person through this biggest mailbox.Translated by Crystal

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“Zhangjiajie, we are from all over the world to you… to share our culture and our souls. From the countryside music to rock, we are wonderful together…” Not many people would have thought that this country music song “zhangjiajie” was meticulously created by South African band.This music band is called South African drum art troupe, which is South Africa’s famous country music art troupe. They can show different ethnic songs, dances and music shows of South Africa. Through it, people can see the African national characteristics, with strong interactive situation. The troupe has repeatedly taken part in Chinese international folk art festival. And in South Africa pavilion of the shanghai world expo, their performance was warmly received by Chinese and foreign audience.International country festival permanently settled in zhangjiajie in 2009, which received a number of countries to actively participate in.South Africa was particularly active in this program.South Africais known as the “rainbow nation”, which has a variety of music style. In the first singles, the wild beauty of South African drum band left a deep impression on the majority of tourists. In the second singles, the jungle band’s performance with aboriginal song and dance still made a lot of memories on the audience.Translated by Sophia

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“It is convenient and economical to travel to ZJJ by direct bus!” On July 14th, nearly 40 tourists from Wuhan take the“Travel Direct Buses”opened by CITS Zhangjiajie West and start three-day ecological summering vocation in Zhangjiajie Wulingyuan scenic spot.According to the report,“Travel Direct Buses”is exploratory measure that the tourism administration of Zhangjiajie Wulingyuan takes to expand the tourists market in Wuhan. It is to activate the golden road for tourism channel–“Wuhan-Jinzhou-lixian-Zhangjiajie”.Wuhan, with millions of people, is one of the main tourists market for Zhangjiajie, with over 120,000 tourists from Wuhan visiting Wulingyuan in 2012. In March this year, Zhu yongwen, the secretary of Wulingyuan district committee led a promoting team and managed to hold tourism talkfest–“Away from haze; Outing in ZJJ”. In the meeting, the people from Zhangjiajie discussed and exchanged with Wuhan’s travel agencies and Zhangjiajie’s offices stationed in Wuhan, in terms of “the transportation from Wuhan to Zhangjiajie or reverse”, “the latter follow-up of marketing” and “the product packing and design”. Both of them made substantial progress in the opening of “Travel Direct Buses” and image and advertisement propagandas.On April 18th, the“Travel Direct Buses”was opened officially. By now, nearly 30 buses have been departed with over 1,000 tourists from Wuhan being sent. It is planed to send 70 direct buses in this year and hopeful to send about 3,000 tourists. At the same time, on the basis of direct buses from Wuhan to Zhangjiajie, the travel direct buses from Jinzhou and Xiangyang to Zhangjiajie are also planed.In order to maximize the support to the open of“Travel Direct Buses”in Wuhan, Wulingyuan scenic spot will intensify the marketing efforts and image propaganda, especially to the serials of tourism products, like“Travel Direct Buses”.Translated by Crystal

News 2013-07-17 15:52 View：1203