After China Southern Airline's initiative of opening a Zhangjiajie-Taibei direct flight on April 15th, Taiwan TransAsia Airways has followed by opening a Taipei-Zhangjiajie direct flight on June 2nd, along with Taiwan UNI Air opening a normal charter flight between Zhangjiajie and Taiwan's Gaoxiong on June 3rd.On Mondays, Tuesdays and Sundays each week, the 3-hour Taipei-Zhangjiajie Flight takes off from Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport at 15:50 and arrives at Zhangjiajie Hehua International Airport and the return flight commences for Taipei at 19:50. From June 3rd on, the newly-opened normal charter flight will take off from Gaoxiong at 14:50, arriving at Zhangjiajie in 2 hours and 40 minutes, and will return to Gaoxiong at 18:50 each Monday.These flights between Zhangjiajie and Taiwan will greatly facilitate Taiwanese wishing to tour Zhangjiajie. Via the 3-hour direct flight, they can now comfortably and safely get to the beautiful city instead of transferring in Guangzhou or Changsha.Translator: Wang XiaoluSource: enghunan.gov.cn

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On May 30, South Korea the 26th International Tourism Exhibition is officially held in Seoul. Liu-jinping, party member of National Tourism Administration and discipline-team leader delegates to attend the exhibition. The delegation is composed by 19 provinces, such as Hunan, Tianjin, Hebei, Zhejiang and Qinghai, etc.The stand for China this time covers an area of 270 square meters. The exhibition, themed with “Travel in the Beautiful China”, highlights rich tourism resources such as the Chinese historical culture, natural mountains and rivers, national customs and holidays. According to the requirements and features of tourism market, the exhibition introduces different tourism products and routes, such as the ancient tea horse road, silk road, yangtze river delta, honeymoon journey, etc. Many local tourism wholesalers and the masses come to consult and make transaction, which make the exhibition live to its expectations.In order to create marketing atmosphere in the scene, the Chinese exhibitors prepare many wonderful programs with Chinese characteristics, such as Peking Opera, Change Face and lion dance, etc.Translated by Crystal

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On June 2, A321 airbus conducted by TranAsia Airways is initiated its first flight, with 180 Taiwan tourists arrived in Zhangjiajie Hehua airport from Taipei Taoyuan airport, which signing three flights from Zhangjiajie to Taipei will be added to six every week. Tian-huayu, deputy mayor of Zhangjiajie people’s government, welcomes these guests coming from afar.After China Southern Airlines opened the flights from Zhangjiajie to Taipei on April 15th, TranAsia Airways will conduct “ZJJ-Taipei Flight”. The schedule is on Monday, Thursday and Saturday, which takes off on 15:50 and makes a return voyage on 19:50, lasting three hours. On June 3, normal charter flight from Zhangjiajie to Gaoxiong will be opened by Taiwan Uni Air, which is favorable to boosting tourism development and strengthening economic and trade cooperation among the three cities.Translated by Crystal

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To advance tourist food quality in Zhangjiajie, Zhangjiajie Bureau of Quality Supervision strengthened supervision measures and built a long and effective system, achieving obvious results. Recently, a city-level random checking revealed that Zhangjiajie tourist food quality went up by 6.4%.Up to now, Zhangjiajie owns 70 tourist food manufacturing enterprises. Since the city is a world famous tourist resort, its tourist food safety plays an indispensable role in the whole tourist trade. Therefore, Zhangjiajie Bureau of Quality Supervision transformed the work of improving the quality of tourist product to the increase of tourist food quality, addressing both the symptoms and root causes. Through establishing mechanism, intensify supervising and risk troubleshooting, it is able to clear up the responsibility of the food manufacturing enterprises and rule out the potential safety hazard. With all those measures above, Zhangjiajie food quality shows an evident advance.By Emma

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On June 1, the final competition of Zhangjiajie’s First Summer Children Chess Contest is held in Wulingyuan Xibu Street, a national AAA scenic spot. About 200 chess players from Zhangjiajie spend a happy International Children’s Day in Xibu Street and the “black and white battle ” between them becomes a bright cultural landscape.According to the report, chess section(class) and place contest is the level certification contest for chess players. This summer children chess contest, organized by Zhangjiajie sports general assembly and held by Wulingyuan sports general assembly, is aimed to enrich all children’s culture and life, enhance the chess players’ skills and boost the development of Zhangjiajie’s chess cause.The person in charge of Wulingyuan sports general assembly says “according to the rules and regulations of China’s Chess Contest rules, the event conducts the “dividing groups and accounting grades” principle. Besides, it consists of seven rounds with 40 minutes per round and two points for winning and zero for failure. The person who wins the highest points will become the winner and be honored the grade certificate by the competent department”Translated by Crystal

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The Broadcast of Zhangjiajie Stage Show “Seeking For Love” in 2012 CCTV Spring Festival Listed as One of the Ten Cultural Events in Hunan.On January 22, 2012, Zhangjiajie stage show “Seeking For Love” went to the public in CCTV spring festival. Elaborately directed by Zhangjiajie glamorous Xiangxi art troupe, this show blended dancing with acrobatics, showing rich traditional national culture and customs of minorities in Xiangxi to guests at home and abroad. It is known that “seeking for love”, being a element of Zhangjiajie as well as local Hunan national original show, entered into the CCTV spring festival for the first time, therefore it was rewarded as one of the ten cultural events in Hunan last year without controversy.The Ten Hunan Cultural Events in 2012 was hosted by the Red Net, directed by provincial party Committee propaganda Department and Provincial party committee for Network propaganda. Launched on December, 2012, this activity terminated in the form of voting on April. Nominate by net friend in the Red Net and recommended by units and experts, the events winning the prize stand out after a series of procedures, namely, mass-election, network voting and expert review.By Emma

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On the arrival of International Children’s Day, the awards ceremony of the composition contest –“My Chinese Dream” (June 1) is Held in Zhangjiajie Tianmen elementary school. About 800 people from relevant units and departments attend the ceremony.The composition contest –“My Chinese Dream” consists of three groups:primary school, junior high school and senior high school, of which 36 compositions, 12 children’s folk songs and 12 paintings are awarded. On the ceremony, the prize winners are honored respectively.“Children is the future of our country, is the successor of the socialist cause with Chinese characteristics. Caring about the growth of children is the common responsibility of our society. So all related departments should fully understand the importance of strengthening children’s work, creating a sound and healthy environment for life and study for children. At the same time I hope the majority of children build up lofty ideals and great ambitions to revitalize the Chinese nation, inherit and promote Chinese traditional values and achieve your lift values through realizing the great dream of China” Tian hua yu, deputy mayor of Zhangjiajie municipal people’s government and deputy director of Zhangjiajie civilized association says on the ceremony.On the ceremony, children perform eleven different wonderful shows, such as dance, sing, textbook drama, elocntes, which arouse repeated applauses.Translated by Crystal

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On May 27th, source from Zhangjiajie Port Office is reported that regular flights from Zhangjiajie to Taipei will increase three flights, up to six every week from June 2.According to the report, since April, regular direct flights from Zhangjiajie to Taipei have been officially opened. From June 2, regular flights from Zhangjiajie to Taipei will increase to one flight respectively on Monday, Thursday and Sunday from one flight respectively on Monday, Tuesday and Friday, up to six flights every week.Translated by Crystal

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