On February 11, the third day of golden week during Spring Festival, Yellow Dragon Cave scenic spot on ecological square displayed custom culture of Tujia nationality people making Glutinous Rice Cake symbolizing reunion and luck.Making Glutinous Rice Cake, as one of New Year’s custom which has been handed down by Tujia people in ZJJ for thousands of years, usually is made of steamed glutinous rice cake knocked about in a special designed stone groove and is of high labor intensity. At the scene of making Glutinous Rice Cake, a lot of tourists were attracted to stop to watch and not a few tourists even actively participated in making it to experience traditional folk culture of ZJJ people.During Spring Festival, Yellow Dragon Cave region had held Festive Lantern and Folk Song performances. And they gained a vast of tourists’ favor and good reputation.By Patricia

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Over 1,000 visitors from home and abroad were impressed by the cloud-capped mountains and beautiful snowscape in the Wulingyuan Scenic Spot of Zhangjiajie on the morning of February 10.Attributed to the preferential policy of exempting 7-seat passenger cars from road tolls during the Spring Festival and fine weather after the heavy snow, Zhangjiajie attracted numbers of visitors from Guangdong, Hong Kong and even Europe. They could enjoy not only beautiful scenery and delicious food of the Tujia ethnic group but also various folk performances such as festival lantern, dragon dance and the Yangxi Opera from February 10 to 24.Translator: Wang XiaoluSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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On February 10, 2013, it’s a big sunny day in Wulingyuan. At about 3 p.m. that very day, about 50 persons including secretary of district committee Zhu Yongwen, deputy secretary of district committee and district mayor Zhu Xinnian, deputy warden Denjian and all walks of life came to Helong Garden of Mount Tianzi to worship Supreme Commander Helong.Zhu Yongwen and other people respectfully present a basket of flowers to Marshal Helong and all people bowed three times to him in order to express people’s measureless admire and advocate and pass on fighting spirit of elder revolutionist and boost construction of international tour and leisure holiday zone in Wulingyuan.Marshal Helong is the supreme commander for new China’s founding and ZJJ’s pride as well for that he was once a residence in ZJJ. Thousands of local citizens and tourists are absorbed here to worship Helong during Spring Festival every year.By Patricia

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Yesterday being the fourth day of the Golden Week of the Spring Festival, the Hunan Provincial Holiday Office released statistics that 42 provincially-monitored tourism areas or sites had received a total of 457,700 tourists, among which most drove their own vehicles, an increase of 3.4% compared with the same time of the previous year. The office said that tourism profits achieved great growth, with 33,992,300 yuan in tourism revenue, up 44% compared to 2012. The top ten areas receiving the most tourists were: the Shaoshan (Birthplace of Mao Zedong), Yuelu Mountain, Hengshan Mountain (Southern Mountain), Yueyang Tower and Junshan Island, Zhijiang (Site of the Japanese Surrender), Wujian Mountain (National Forest Park), Memorial Hall of Comrade Liu Shaoqi, Ancient Commercial Town of Hongjiang, Jiuyi Mountain (a famous mountain in Yongzhou) and Emperor Yan Mausoleum.Yesterday Changsha saw a sharp increase in visitors to its major historical districts and other popular sites. It's estimated that 233,500 tourists were received in Changsha yesterday and that tourism revenue reached 222 million yuan, a year-on-year growth of 16.8% and 37.8% respectively.Translator: Zhu MengxiaSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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Yesterday being the fourth day of the Golden Week of the Spring Festival, the Hunan Provincial Holiday Office released statistics that 42 provincially-monitored tourism areas or sites had received a total of 457,700 tourists, among which most drove their own vehicles, an increase of 3.4% compared with the same time of the previous year. The office said that tourism profits achieved great growth, with 33,992,300 yuan in tourism revenue, up 44% compared to 2012. The top ten areas receiving the most tourists were: the Shaoshan (Birthplace of Mao Zedong), Yuelu Mountain, Hengshan Mountain (Southern Mountain), Yueyang Tower and Junshan Island, Zhijiang (Site of the Japanese Surrender), Wujian Mountain (National Forest Park), Memorial Hall of Comrade Liu Shaoqi, Ancient Commercial Town of Hongjiang, Jiuyi Mountain (a famous mountain in Yongzhou) and Emperor Yan Mausoleum. Yesterday Changsha saw a sharp increase in visitors to its major historical districts and other popular sites. It's estimated that 233,500 tourists were received in Changsha yesterday and that tourism revenue reached 222 million yuan, a year-on-year growth of 16.8% and 37.8% respectively. Translator: Zhu Mengxia

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On February 9th, the world natural heritage zhangjiajie wulingyuan scenic spot with a warm sunshine. With the emergence of sea scenery, a large number of people have a big annual Spring Festival in zhangjiajie. According to incomplete statistics, zhangjiajie tianzi mountain, huangshi village, huanglong hole, baofeng lake and other scenic areas, they received more than 1000 tourists from home and abroad.In Tianzi mountain scenic spot, annual tourists almost came from guangdong and Hong Kong family. There were many tourists from Europe and the United States to see the rare zhangjiajie landform snowscape, with full of praise. They also perfected service facilities and attitude.To ensure that the visitors′ safety, through the Spring Festival, the zhangjiajie scenic spot and related tourism enterprise in addition to create a good atmosphere of festival, still increasing safety monitoring, preparing folk custom programs to reflect the local culture.Translated by Sophia

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Recently, pedestrianism and cycling activities, sponsored by ZJJ Sports Bureau, undertook by ZJJ Mountaineering Association and jointly done by ZJJ Sports Lottery Center, has been held by ZJJ “Sports Lottery Cup” along the Lishui River. Many staff and workers and a vast of ambulation and cycling fans have participated in this activity aiming at advocating green, healthy and civilized lifestyle and strengthening people’s fitness.Participators set off from the music fountain plaza of Dayongqiao Garden, went along Lishui River and finally arrived at stadium of First Middle School in ZJJ City. Slogans like “I Exercise, I’m Healthy, I’m Happy”, “Sports Lottery of Public Interest Gives You A Healthy Life” represent people’s pursuit and desire for happy life in new year deliver good ideas of “Exercise on Foot and Gladly Welcome the New Year and Scientific Fitness Makes A Happy Life”ZJJ Sports Lottery Center greatly supported this fitness exercise overall citizen and provided prizes for this activity. It not only improves the celebrity of the brand, but also strengthens people’s impression on China Sports Lottery Tickets’ image of public welfare.By Patricia

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Huanghua Airport Witnesses a New Height for Traveler Flow with Thailand Traffic Increasing by 79.8%.According to the Changsha Border Defense Inspection Station, from the early morning of Feb. 9 to 17 o'clock of Feb. 13, the Changsha Huanghua International Airport handled 67 international flights and received 8,100 passengers in total, up 10% and 12.4% respectively compared with the same period of last year. And as the China Southern Airlines, Oriental Thai Airlines and Jet Asia Airways opened over 30 flights from Changsha to Bangkok and Phuket one after another, the airport saw over 2,000 mainland visitors heading for Thailand for travelling during the festival, a year-on-year rise of 79.8%.According to the relatively increase of flights during the Spring Festival, especially late at night or early in the morning, with most passengers being tourists, the Changsha Border Defense Inspection Station adjusted their service schedule duly by enhancing front line police force disposition. Meanwhile, the station strived to create an amicable, warm and speedy environment through such measures as setting a first-responder responsibility system, opening green channel for people with special needs (the elderly, sick, disabled, pregnant and passengers with urgent needs) and adding channels for Chinese citizens.Translator: Zhu MengxiaSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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