At the conference with press and travel agents in Thailand convened on July 23, Vice Mayor of Zhangjiajie Cheng Danfeng revealed that Zhangjiajie and Pattaya will develop into sister cities by the witness of "Ocean around Pattaya and Mountain in Zhangjiajie".Recent years, Zhangjiajie has focused on securing its traditional inbound tourism market in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau as well as Asian countries like South Korea and Thailand. The city has airlines that fly to 20 overseas destinations.From January to mid-July this year, the number of tourists arriving from Thailand increased by 50% year on year to hit 40,000, making Thailand the third biggest overseas tourists market of Zhangjiajie.During the press conference, Thailand journalists asked a blot about the relation between Zhangjiajei and Pattaya, Mountain and Ocean, as well as Yin and Yang, showing their great interests in Chinese culture and Zhangjiejie's tourism.Director of the Publicity Department of Zhangjiejie, Yu Huaimin sang a local love song and narrated a love story to ingeniously answer the journalists' questions, wining warm applause from the media and travel agents, and pushing the conference to a climax.Translator: Wang BilianSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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On the night of July 22nd,Michiganmountain appeared rare orange “breast clouds”. The emergence of the cloud, according to the scientific explanation, that is the rapid change between temperature and humidity, which showing the arrival of a tornado or storm.Translated by Sophia

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On July 23, ZJJ government held a conference with media and travel agencies in Thailand, official members Yu Huaiming and Chen Danfeng attending the meeting.To bring the two sides closer, Mr. Chen started with a poet. He also mentioned that Thailand is a very important tourist generating region for ZJJ, being the biggest customer market in Southeast Asia. With the opening of the chartered flight from ZJJ to Thailand, people in the two region has developed a close relationship, tourism in the two area also witnessing a more smoothly cooperation. In addition, he introduced ZJJ in four aspects, namely, beauty, green, customs and openness. Later, he also responded respectively to the questions, such as promotion plan and preference policy for Thailand, how to solve the long waiting time in queuing.It is said that, 28 media and travel agencies in Thailand stayed in ZJJ for 7 days. They visited many scenic spots like Mount Tianmen, Mount Tianzi, Golden Whip Stream and Yellow Stone Village and watched the stage show “Mount Tianmen fairy fox- new farmer, Liuhai, cutting firewood”. Through this trip, they photographed pictures of many scenic spots and learned more about the customs as well as government policies of ZJJ. They expressed that they will publish the beautiful ZJJ insights in newspapers, on TV stations and in magazines to make people in there motherland have a better standing of ZJJ and enhancing the communication between each other. ZJJ also hoped their trip is able to attract more travelers from Thailanders.Thailanders visiting  ZJJ by charted airpalneBy Emma

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On July 18th, the eighth cross-strait youth festival showed in zhangjiajie. Students and Taiwan international business entrepreneurs will have a chance to visit zhangjiajie.According to the mass of the central, the national youth the overall deployment, the event lasted from July 18th to 24th, with “Chinese dream, the Chinese sentiment” as the theme, to carry forward the Chinese culture, enhance national identity as the main line, to deepen the understanding between youth and consensus, promoting the peaceful development of cross-strait relations, and creating valuable platform and opportunity for cross-strait win-win hand in hand.When the delegation arrived in zhangjiajie, zhangjiajie enthusiastic compatriots provided “wine”, by minority nationality unique way to greet guests. During the activity,Taiwan youth delegation inspected the beauty of zhangjiajie.Translated by Sophia

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An exhibition themed "Towards Modernity- 300 Years of British Art" is scheduled to open to the public for free at the Changsha Municipal Museum from August 20 to October 7.Eighty pieces of art treasure for the exhibition are selected from the museums and galleries in Manchester and its nearby cities, including oil painting, wood block, watercolor, sketch and sculpture.. Masterpieces of famous artists in British history like William Hogarth, John Constable, William Turner and Henry Moore will be exhibited.Jointly sponsored by the Hunan Provincial Museum, Changsha Municipal Museum, Beijing World Art Museum, the Manchester Museum, the Greater Manchester Museum Group, National Tour Exhibition Alliance of British and Bury Metropolitan Borough Council, the exhibition will fully demonstrate the development of British art over the past 300 years.Translator: Wang BilianSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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Weather in summer is hot, travel in Zhangjiajie is cool. Now,it is the peak of summer vacation in Zhangjiajie Tianzi Mount scenic zone, millions of travelers from domestic and aboard flooded here for relaxation.In order to provide a better tourism environment for travelers, Zhangjiajie Tianzishan scenic zone has newly increased lines of leisure corridors during the scenic zone. Travelers have spoken highly of it and enjoyed the feeling sitting under the tree shade.By Aileen

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On July 23, an in-depth communication between Zhangjiajie and Thai Travel Agencies as well as Thai Media held in Zhangjiajie.28 mainstream media,such as Bangkok Post, Nation newspaper, Bangkok Today together with 14 famous Thai travel agencies took part in this communication meeting.Mr Cheng Danfeng, vice mayor of Zhangjiajie warmly expresses welcome and introduces the fame and titles Zhangjiajie gained successively. For example,China’s first national forest park, the first Chinese world natural heritage, world geological park, the first national civilized scenic spot, China excellent tourist city as well as China’s most influential overseas cities.Then,Mr Cheng has introduced Zhangjiajie from four aspects: Beautiful Zhangjiajie with charming landscape, Green Zhangjiajie with ecological environment, Cultural Zhangjiajie with rich folklore and permissive Zhangjiajie with abundant business opportunities. The relationship between Zhangjiajie and Thailand grows closer since the charter flight routes opened in Bangkok, Thailand,in 2012, which offers a more convenient chance for travelers.It is reported that the Thai media and travel agencies would pay a 7-day trip in Zhangjiajie. During this period, they respectively have the on-the-spot investigation in Tianmen Mountain, Mount Tianzi,Yellow Stone Village, etc. Meanwhile, they watched stage drama Fairy Fox and got a better understanding of Zhangjiajie’s customs and folklores as well as the preferential policies. When back to Thailand, more information and introduction about Zhangjiajie will be showed on the screen in Thailand, which facilitates Thai people learns more about Zhangjiajie.By Aileen

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Located at the junction of the three counties of Shimen, Taoyuan and Cili, the “Chengtuo Stockade” is hidden by its stockade rock and has never been discovered. The stockade lies in the Lianghekou Village of Mengquan Township, Shimen County, to the east of Chengmen Stockade, a local scenic spot. Piled up by five huge round red sandstones, Chengtuo Stockade is shaped by a dustpan-sized rock at its top, looking like a sliding weight of a steelyard. It reaches a height of over 20 meters and is as smooth as a mirror. It is said the stockade’s name “Chengtuo” (chèng tuó in Chinese means sliding weight of a steelyard) is originated from the rock’s shape. The local legend says that at the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of Qing Dynasty, Li Zicheng (1606-1645), the Daring General, ordered to bury the treasures in various cellars when he was chased by soldiers of the Qing Dynasty. He also entrusted his young son to a family surnamed Jiang and gave the treasure map to them. The Jiang family’s descendant Jiang Guangye, one of the richest men in China, discovered the scenic spot Chengmen Stockade, 10 kilometers away from his house when he was planning to build a summer resort. During the work at his summer resort in Chengmen Village, Jiang Guangye found Chengtuo Stockade, but left the project unfinished because of his failure to get on well with the villagers. Geologically, Chengmen and Chengtuo Stockades were shaped by running water and weathering on the basis of folds and breakage incurred by the eastward movement of Hunan and Guangxi after the Ordovician. Translator: Zhu Mengxia Source: Hunan Official Web Portal

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