On April 27th, ZJJ canoe slalom is officially opened towards tourists. Three Cantonese become the first tourists to experience this drifting activity. On the upcoming of May Day ( from April 29th to May 1), ZJJ canoe slalom has a discount on tickets for drifters with 94RMB per person, reduced from the former price of 118RMB per person.ZJJ canoe slalom is the only drifting project in Wulinyuan scenic spot. Constructed in 2000, and with a length of 1,960 meters, it costs 1.5 hours to complete this journey. Once it was appointed as the training base for the 2008 Olympic Games. During ten years of operation, many domestic and international competitions have been held in there like “the Tenth National Games”, and it has successfully admitted over 100,000 drifters from abroad.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

2013-04-29 09:30 View：1119

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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Ni Qiu Zuan Dou Fu is a course which is commonly favored by Tujia people.It is rich in nutrition,fresh and tender as well as full of delicious favor,acting as a yummy food for Tujia people to treat honored guest.The procedures to make such a food is as follows:Step 1: put several loaches into a jar or a pot, and then add clean water and a slight of salt.Step 2: Wait for one night until the loaches in a jar or a pot spitting out all the mud, sand and other impurities in their stomachs.Step 3: use clean water to wash the loaches, and then put living loaches into fresh and tender tofu to let them go through the tofu.Step 4: after a few small holes appearing, put them into the pan and stewed them.Step 5: add some ingredients like pepper, chopped green onion, monosodium glutamate, chopped fresh ginger, soy sauce etc.In many people’s view,this dish is very distinctive and innovative and it is really a very traditional and unique Tujia food.If you have not taste it yet,why not have a bite of it? I bet you will not regret.Translated by Emma

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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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White Tiger Totem worship plays an important role in Tujia culture. For a better and more comprehensive understanding of Tujia folk history when traveling in Zhangjiajie, you are expected to acquire the knowledge of their worship of White Tiger.

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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

2013-04-29 09:26 View：1008

On the first day of the May Day holiday, the Miao people in Fenghuang Ancient Town performed "Tiaohua" dance in the culture square to welcome tourists. The cultural activity themed with Happy Xiaoxiang & Folk Fenghuang is held in Fenghuang, Hunan Province. According to the host, from May 1 through the end of July tourists can enjoy such featured local cultural activities as the Fenghaung Wenchadeng Drama and the Miao Flower Drum Dance in Fenghuang.Translator: Zhu MengxiaSource:enghunan.gov.cn

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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

2013-04-29 09:15 View：1278