On April 28th, the award ceremony of the first stage for the first national television essay contest–“mountains, pretty as a picture; my ZJJ” is held under the great influence of home and abroad. Many sectors, like Propaganda department of ZJJ, the city’s writers association attend the ceremony.This event, initiated in June 2010, has received considerable supports from many departments in ZJJ and writers and authors from home. The event has accepted about 300 essays and in order to promote its influence, it invites writers enjoying their popularity in home and abroad to this activity.After experts’ careful evaluation, the final result is released: one first prize, three second prizes, six third prizes and ten excellent prizes. On the ceremony, leaders present award certificates and rewards to these prize winners and express hearty thanks for their supports to promote ZJJ.It is reported that the organizing committee plans to invite famous televisions from the whole country to shoot TV prose themed with ZJJ’s beautiful scenery and set up rewards in terms of screen play, photography and broadcast. This will build a platform for national competitions and deeply engrave ZJJ’s image on the people’s hearts.Translated by Crystal

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It is reported that Ningbo, one of the main traveler generating regions in eastern China, will have 50 tourist charted flights making non-stop to ZJJ.According to the report, there are two non-stop flights from Ningbo to ZJJ every week. On April 27th, the maiden flight is made and over thousands of tourists will be expected to bring to ZJJ. An related official says, there had no non-stop flights from Ningbo to ZJJ before 2009, but after the collaboration of the two parties, it was achieved and facilitates tourists from Ningbo, Taizhou and Zhoushan to visit ZJJ.In order to stabilize and strengthen tourist source in eastern China, many tourism sectors in ZJJ have conducted contacts and cooperations in Ningbo, Taizhou, Zhoushan and Hangzhou, which secures the continuousness of nono-stop flights from Ningbo to ZJJ since 2009 and which brings in over 40,000tourists to ZJJ.In recent years, ZJJ’s popularity and good reputation have increased considerably in Ningbo. Every year, over 60,000 tourists come to ZJJ for visit through different means.Translated by Crystal

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News from Xinhua agency that Zhangjiajie Travel Group and eight core scenic corporations jointly initiated a kind fund .It is the Guide Kind Fund, which aiming at setting up a guide subsidizing security mechanism to continuously care about tour guides.Related materials reveal that this is the first fund in the whole country and officially launched. The main mode of fund raising is voluntarily donation from sponsors, social groups, fund interests and other legal incomes. For the sponsor units, they are required to annually donate at least 100,000RMB. Recipients of the Guide Kind Fund include professional tour guides who registered in Zhangjiajie, local and national guides working in Zhangjiajie but come from other places and special languages commentators who with Tourism Administration issued certificates.Whoever eligible can apply for financial aid and the maximum of the funding is 120,000 RMB.By Aileen

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On April 27th, the award ceremony of “splendis Xiaoxiang, natural beauty–the best beautiful scenic spot in Hunan” is held in Tianman Fox Spirit grand theater. The organizing committee of the event presents awards for six best beautiful scenic spots in Hunan, three most promising scenic spots and three good participating scenic spots.The best beautiful scenic spots in Hunan fall on ZJJ, Yueyan Tower, Fenghuang, Love Dusk Pavilion on Yuelu Hill, Orange Island and Henshan; three most promising scenic spots are Meishan Dragon Palace, Hongjiang Ancient Commercial and Tianmen Fox Spirit; three good participating scenic spots are Dongjiang Lake, Zilongwan Hot Spring and Nanshan Pasture.Translated by Crystal

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An unforgettable traveling memory usually has something to do with the weather. Here is the accurate weather report from the Hunan Observatory based on the monitoring data of meteorological stations.28th April: The province-wide in Hunan will be cloudy to overcast. In areas like western and northern Hunan will usher in a shower or thunder shower. Heavy rain will fall in north part of Western Hunan.29th April: The north-central parts of Hunan Province are moderate shower or thunder shower. Other areas are cloudy to moderate shower or thunder shower with the decline of temperature and strong wind.30th April: There will be overcast to moderate shower or thunder shower in Southern Hunan, some of them perhaps heavy. Northern Hunan will be overcast to cloudy. The rest parts in Hunan will have showers or thunder shower to cloudy.1st to 2nd May: Sunny and cloudy, which is suitable for outer activities.Tips: For a safe and impressive journey in Zhangjiajie, here come several tips. Umbrellas and water-proof shoes and raincoat are indispensable. Ladies had better wear on soft and suitable shoes instead of high-heel ones. Sunglasses and sunscreen products should be prepared.By Aileen

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On April 25, the party members from Hekou village, Suoxi town, in Wulingyuan area, voluntarily stood in a queue as a relay team to carry goods for the shop owners, for the sake of merchants opening business as early as possible. Mr. Mao, one of the shop owners, said emotionally,”I have moved out of the previous store, which means I get rid of exposing myself to the sun and rain at last. I am really thankful for our party and government.” Other shop owners at present were brimming with a happy smile on their faces.On October 5,11:00 pm., a big fire took place, which was caused by careless manage of individual. As a consequence, 76 stores burned to ashes with a direct economic loss of over 1 millon RMB.After the incidence occurred, Wulingyuan district party committee, district government and Suoxi town party committee government raised a fund of 760 thousand RMB in a short time and built 76 stores that are rich in Xiangxi enthnic characteristic on previous site within 5 months, based on the principle of pepole’s interest above everything. What’s more, they also appropriated 25000 RMB to victims, encouraging them to move into the new stores and open business as soon as possible.Translated by Emma

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The programme of Yangjiajie passenger cableway is one of the key construction program in ZJJ this year, started on December 18 last year. After a completion of this project, it will help to build a fast channel for the core scenic area in the west, make a reasonable distribution and appropriate layout for guests in such area and alleviate the pressure of overburdened reception and busy transportation in partial scenic area.The programme is planned to finish the checking of its main body and installation of its framework in June, following the installation of cableway facility in August. In September, the cableway will under checking, debugging and acceptance. If all these mentioned procedures went smoothly and successfully, a trial operation on the cableway would be taken into practice.After hearing a report of the project by Yangjiajie Cableway Limited Company, Liu yuegao, secretary of the municipal committee, underlined that the construction unit should perform the work well and carefully so as to ensure the safety and quality of the project and lay a solid foundation for the cableway’s safety operation. In addition, he also stressed that,” each related functional department should strength its effort in order to support the construction programme and increase its efficiency in service, ensuring a fair quality and a fast progress of the project.Translated by Emma

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The 2013 China Domestic Tourism Trade Fair was held in Guiyang City from April 19 to 21. In order to promote the tourism development of Hongjiang City and Qiyang Ancient Town, the Hongjiang Tourism Bureau organized the scenic spots of Qiyang Ancient Town to  join the fair.At the fair, visitors were attracted to Hunan's Huaihua booth by the roles of "Wang Changling" (698-756) who was a major Tang Dynasty poet and maid of honor wearing Tang-style costume, and Confucian scholars dressed in Qing Dynasty robe. Over 2,000 pieces of poster foldouts, scenery brochures, travel maps, scenic discs concerning Hongjiang City and Qianyang Ancient Town were snapped up. A feature film about Hongjiang tourism played in the large LED display of Hunan booth appealed to many visitors.The annual fair has been acclaimed as one of the most influential events in the circle of tourism. Via this fair, Hongjiang tourism was well promoted and the image of ancient Huaihua was also showcased.Translator: Lv XuefenSource: hunan.gov.cn

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