From March 27 to 28, Hunan Tourism Bureau respectively held the Promotion Meeting for Tourism Products by High-speed Railway in Shijiazhuang, provincial capital of Hebei Province in northern China, and Beijing, capital of China.It is the first time that the activity themed "Splendid Xiaoxiang, Happy Hunan" has been promoted in Beijing and Hebei since the Beijing-Guangzhou high-speed railway opened to traffic on December 26, 2012. The meeting aims to promote beautiful, curious and interesting tourism products with Hunan characteristics and main tourism routes.During the meeting, Hunan Tourism Bureau introduced seven tourism products such as tours for Hunan scenic spots, happy leisure travels in Changsha, Huxiang culture travels, tours for hometowns of celebrities, the tours for the waters and mountains in southern Hunan, the tours for seeking roots and praying and the tours for enjoying Hunan food.Yang said the opening of Bejing-Guangzhou high-speed railway facilitates the travel from Hunan to Beijing and Hebei Province. It takes only five hours from Changsha to Shijiazhuang, and five and a half hours to Beijing.He also expressed his hope that Hunan will enhance cooperation and communication with Beijing and Hebei in tourism based on the development of high-speed railway, and work together to develop high-speed railway tourism products, upgrade the quality of high-speed railway tourism service, and improve the construction of high-speed railway tourism facilities.On March 28, Hunan holds the tourism promotion meeting in Beijing.Director of the Hunan Tourism Bureau Yang Guangrong invites more tourists from Beijing and Hebei Province to visit Hunan.Translator: Yin XiaodongSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

2013-03-29 12:15 View：1031

Fifty-three Chinese-Australian teenagers from Xinjinshan Chinese Language & Culture School Inc. in Melbourne for the "root-seeking tour" in Hunan paid a special visit to Tongguan Kiln in Changsha on March 28.As it was the first time for them to visit Hunan, all youngsters listened to the commentator very carefully at each site and took photos.A boy named Cai Chunning created a ceramic painting with kangaroo and a map of Australia on one side and Panda and a map of China on the other side, and connected the two countries by four Chinese characters of "Youyi Changcun" (friendship forever) in the middle. "It is not only a tour for root-seeking but also for friendship-establishing. I will take the ceramic painting back to Australia to memorize this activity." said Cai.These teenagers are scheduled to attend such Chinese culture courses as Chinese dance, martial art and paper-cutting, visit historic and cultural attractions like Tongguan Kiln in Changsha, Yueyang Tower and Shaoshan, and worship the Emperor Yan at Yan's Mausoleum in Zhuzhou.Translator: Wang BilianSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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Chinese National Culture Research and Promotion Center was officially launched at Yuelu Academy on the afternoon of March 26. Xu Yousheng, director of the Hunan Provincial Publicity Department and Lai Mingyong, deputy chairman of the CPPCC Hunan Provincial Committee oversaw the launch ceremony. The center was built at Yuelu Academy under the guidance of the Hunan Provincial Publicity Department, the Hunan Provincial Education Department, Hunan Broadcasting Company, Hunan Federation of Social Sciences and Hunan University. The center plans to invite top domestic and overseas experts to conduct studies and open forums and seminars on Chinese national culture. The Yuelu Academy Chinese National Culture Award will be established and posts of distinguished and specially-appointed professors will be created to promote the spread of Chinese national culture. Mr. Xu remarked that this center is of great significance in accelerating the prosperity of philosophy and social sciences and increasing the cultural power of the province. He expected the center to integrate traditional Chinese cultural research resources from at home and abroad and increase the promotion of sinology. He added that the province will strive to develop Yuelu Academy into a highland in promoting Chinese culture, a high-end research platform affecting the nation and a base to exhibit achievements of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics. Translator: Guo YanSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

2013-03-28 12:10 View：993

Zhangjiajie International Country Music festival is held once every two years.pls note the news on our website.

2013-03-30 11:29 View：4919

On March 27th, ZJJ wulingyuan scenic area uses new energy car – LNG gas car. As we have learned, wulingyuan has become the first one to adopt new energy gas car in hunan province to carry tourists, also has become the first mountain type scenic spot to adopt new energy gas car.Zhangjiajie investes 50 LNG gas cars, with a total cost of 21 million yuan, mainly in wulingyuan scenic spot sign door, tianshan mountain cableway station, ten-miles galleries, water around the four door, dragon ladder, etc. Compared with the original running car, LNG gas cars have cut down harmful emissions, improve the comfort of passengers, lower the fuel consumption by 25%, and reduce noise by around 40%. Promoting the use of this vehicle, it not only can reduce the operation cost, atmospheric pollution, but also improve environmental quality, even to protect the ecological environment of wulingyuan natural heritage.The responsible person of the passenger transport company in zhangjiajie scenic says, with the input of 50 LNG gas cars, in the future, they will be partial to replace current fuel bus, thus realizing a complete gas car coverage in the core scenic spot.Translated by Sophia

2013-03-31 00:04 View：1136

It is known that Spring usually has a changeable weather, so you’d better take enough clothes and bring an umbrella with you when deciding to enjoy a Spring outing. Avoid facing the wind on your way going down slopes. If you choose to have a picnic outside, then special attention should also be paid to drinking water and dietetic hygiene. Do not sit in shady or moist places so as not to be affected with damp. Moreover, look out the wind direction when cooking a meal in the open air.

2013-03-01 11:38 View：3417

Crisp noodle is one of the most popular specialties in Miao, Tujia, Bai and Han nationality.Its manufacturing methods mainly include: firstly, select and steam first-class sticky rice, and then pour it into a tailor-made mould (wooden bottom and bamboo round);

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On March 24th, Hong Kong business joint group visited zhangjiajie. Vice secretary of municipal party committee and mayor, Zhao Xiaoming met the group. The two sides exchanged views on the development of eco-tourism industry and the city ecological protection.The group was led by the Hong Kong chamber of commerce and the media representatives, had two days in zhangjiajie. The purpose was to let the chamber of commerce and media friend further understand zhangjiajie, to explore more business opportunities, strengthen Hong Kong and zhangjiajie business exchanges and cooperation.Hong Kong business joint representative said, zhangjiajie had the unique resources superiority in the world, hoping this trip can find business opportunities, common development of ecological tourism industry.Translated by Sophia

2013-03-28 11:36 View：1012

On March 20th, provincial tourism industry development group released 2012 annual “3521 tourism creation project” of hunan province, announcing the second batch of strong provincial tourism county. NingYuan successfully created strong provincial tourism county.In recent years, NingYuan combined with good ecological environment, cultural heritage, regional advantages, good tourism resources, broadened the financing platform, increased investment in tourism infrastructure construction, optimized the environment of tourism development, in the scenic spot capacity and service level, it has made remarkable achievements.Translated by Sophia

2013-03-26 11:36 View：1123

After the Wuhan promotion, zhangjiajie 6 travel agencies association in wuhan quickly to package the design of tourist routes and products. The production of “zhangjiajie, the most beautiful sunset”, “the beautiful China, finding green zhangjiajie” cause a large the tourism market in wuhan.On March 22th, the first trip from wuhan to zhangjiajie carries more than 400 citizens smoothly sailing, beginning a four-day trip to zhangjiajie. The second trip to zhangjiajie will arrive on April 10th, this year, with a total of 17 trains, integrating tourist over ten thousand people.Translated by Sophia

2013-03-28 11:35 View：1330