The longest glass bridge and highest bungee jumping platform on the planet--innovations that "shocked" the world--are both found at Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon scenic area, a World Natural Heritage site. With an annual increase of 30% in tourist reception capacity, it has leaped to national 4A level status within a few years and has now become the highlight of the Zhangjiajie East Line Tour. On January 8, scenic area staff reported that they received nearly 659,000 tourists from home and abroad in 2012, a growth of over 30% from the previous year. The scenic area continues strive towards perfecting tour routes, boat tours, parking lots and other reception facilities.   Meanwhile, it utilizes its geographic advantages to further enrich the tourism experience, with the construction of the world's highest and longest glass bridge (an investment of 200 million yuan) now entering the crucial stage. Polls show that over 93% of visitors to the Grand Canyon in 2012 had a "great experience", and it has been voted as one of the Netizens Ten Best Cultural Scenic Spots. Translator: Zhu MengxiaSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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With the approach of the Spring Festival holiday, many Chinese are choosing to purchase "nianhuo," or basic goods and necessities for the holiday, in non-traditional ways. The festival, which begins on Feb. 10 this year, serves as an important occasion for family reunions, as well as marks the start of the Chinese Lunar New Year. Purchasing meat, clothing and other ingredients and gifts is a common tradition for the festival. "In the 1980s, special markets for such goods would be set up prior to the festival," said Zhang Zongren, a resident of Quwo county in north China's Shanxi province. However, changing customs and attitudes have led many Chinese to purchase necessities in different ways or replace them entirely, said Li Yongchong, an expert at the Shanxi Provincial Academy of Social Sciences. More families are choosing to have their traditional New Year's Eve dinner in restaurants instead of cooking at home, reducing the need to purchase such goods. While supermarkets supply ready-made delicacies and imported goods for the festival, an increasing number of shoppers are choosing to buy "nianhuo" online. Taobao, China's biggest online retailer, launched a special "nianhuo" website one month ahead of the festival to meet demand from online shoppers. Goods sold on the site range from local delicacies to travel packages for those who wish to leave their hometowns during the holiday. Source: Xinhua

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The 2012 Annual Conference of the Friendship Association for Hunan Overseas Chinese Societies (FAHOCS) & Exchange Meeting of Overseas Chinese from Hunan and Hong Kong was held in Hong Kong on January 3, 2013. Vice President of Hunan Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese (HFROC) Zhu Jianshan, and the Executive President of FAHOCS convened the conference. The event brought together more than 100 people including members of FAHOCS, representatives of Hong Kong overseas Chinese and press from Hunan and Hong Kong. At the conference, Vice President of the Hong Kong Federation of Overseas Chinese Associations delivered a welcome speech. Xie Jianhui, director of the Department of Commerce of Hunan Province briefed the provincial situation of Hunan. President of HFROC Cao Ya introduced the situation of Hunan overseas Chinese. Such topics as construction and development of FAHOCS as well as exchanges and cooperation between overseas Chinese of Hunan and Hong Kong were discussed. Representatives noted that they shall further develop the resources for overseas Chinese affairs and strengthen themselves based on the platform of FAHOCS to build a platform and network for connection of Hunan and overseas circle. Overseas Chinese of Hunan and Hong Kong should deepen bilateral exchange and cooperation to share complementary advantages and intensify the interaction. Efforts should also be made to strengthen communication in financial, trade, science and technology sectors between Hunan and Hong Kong. While seeking support from Hong Kong, a financial bridgehead, Hunan can accelerate the speed to get  geared into the international level. Translator: Wang Bilian Source: Hunan Official Web Portal

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The Promotion Conference of New Tourism Products themed "Coming into Happy Changsha" & 10th Anniversary Celebration of Changsha Association of Travel Services was held on the afternoon of January 8. Introduced at the conference were the recent new achievements, new scenic areas and new products of Changsha tourism. The promotion focused on 13 scenic areas, including the "5A"-class Yuelu Mountain & Orange Isle Scenic Areas, Huitang International Tourist Resort and Dawei Mountain National Ecotourism Demonstration Area. In addition, new one-day and two-day tours of Changsha and 14 new tourist routes were introduced, marking the prelude to the 2013 "Happy Changsha" tourism promotion. The Interim Measures on Promotion and Market Expansion of New Tourism Products of Changsha City will be unveiled this year, motivating Changsha travel agencies to provide more reception services, promoting new tourism packages and city tour routes, and attracting more tourists from at home and abroad. Translator: Zhang Minsi Source: Hunan Official Web Portal

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As we all know, Tujia women are hardworking and industrials. They usually make all kinds of dried vegetables in boom vegetable season for eating in winter and changing taste.

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New preferential rules for the ticket prices have been implemented for vulnerable or other special groups since the fist day of 2013 in ZJJ Wuingyuan Resort.According to the newly issued rules, people as follow have a right of free visiting in natural-landscape-viewing and custom-and-culture-viewing scenic spots:1. Children under or with the height of 1.3 meters;2. Solders on serving;3. The disabled;4. People at the age of 70 or over;For tourists as follow, vehicles in the resort are free:Children under or with the height of 1.3 meters;For tourists as follow, tourism cultural show is free but without seats:Children under or with the height of 1.3 meters;Besides, people as follow have a right of enjoying concerning discount for tickets of access to the resort, of vehicles in the resort and access to other scenic spots for rest with valid documentations:1. Teenagers under the age of 18;2. Full-time students under the age of 24 on bachelor study in universities and from other lower education institutions;3. Old people between 60 and 70;4. Solders on serving (military officers, civilian personnels and noncommissioned officers);5. Retired military cadres;6. Lineal family members of military martyr;7. People with a Certificate of Government Minimum Living Allowance for Rural and Urban Residents;Translated by Vincent Chou

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Swimming in the falling snow in sunshine, Wulingyuan Scenic spots, Zhangjiajie, one of the World Natural Heritage, embraces the coming New Year. According to tourism department of Wulingyuan, 15 thousand tourists visited here on the first day of the new year of 2013, with a year-on-year increase of 65.3 percent. Among them, international tourists accounts for 30 percent or so and a single scenic spot regarded as Zhangjiajie Giant Salamander Science & Technology Museum had a reception of over 200 tourists on that day. It is known to all that every thing went well and no single complaint phone call was received by the Tourism Bureau of that district on 1 January, the 1st day of 2013.Translated by Vincent Chou

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On December 31th, 2012, from ZJJ wulingyuan tourist service center detailed constrution program review meeting, the meeting decided the core principles that at the entrance of zhangjiajie scenic spot to build “wulingyuan tourist service center”, the details construction marked the main entrance of zhangjiajie scenic spot in two years would present a world natural heritage, 5 A-class tourist scenic spot level.Wulingyuan tourist service center will be in strict accordance with the ecology, culture and the principle of human nature. The planning target fully follows the fusion of cultural and tourist industry, the principle of development. In order to be characteristed by zhangjiajie landform and tujia folk customs, strengthen the entrance image, through implanting the theme format, improving tourism service facilities and traffic distribution system, making recreation, scenic spot entrance comprehensive services, cultural display, leisure culture experience, large public activity functions in one body. Thus showing a tujia national characteristics with folk culture theme square.The theme of the center position: With zhangjiajie landform and tujia nationality amorous feelings, through the high standards of tourist service facilities and distinctive characteristics of the entry image, and improving the traffic distribution system, setting international tourism scenic spot service synthesis and comprehensive urban cultural leisure square to “zhangjiajie sealand karp theme culture square”.Functional localization: refining the tujia ethnic customs culture, building image formats, implanting traffic organization. Making wulingyuan scenic spot tourists and city residents as the main consumer groups, in order to set the entrance comprehensive services, cultural display, leisure culture experience, large public activity to the “composite travel service synthesis”.Translated by Sophia

2013-01-16 00:51 View：1294

In the first day of 2013, the world natural heritage zhangjiajie scenic spot huangshi village welcomed Canton tourists. They bathed in the winter sunshine, stepped on the ice snow, fully appreciating the peak wonderland with the ornament of snow. From WuLingYuan tourism department news, the people entered into the wulingyuan scenic core had more than 4000, travel reception presenting a good situation.Translated by Sophia

2013-01-04 10:42 View：1213

On December 29th to 31th, the world natural heritage wulingyuan scenic spot was active with a photography team, with their own “pike” “short gun”, focusing on the 2012 the last zhangjiajie snow. As we have learned, this photography team had a total of twenty people, they were photography enthusiasts and came together to shoot snow style in zhangjiajie, to meet the arrival of the New Year.The filming activities aimed to attract more shutterbug to winter zhangjiajie to have a photography, introduce more beautiful scenery and zhangjiajie winter amorous feelings of the photography works. During this time, they came to huanglong hole, baofeng lake, tianzi mountain, yuanjiaJie, xibu street, and so on. Then exploring the charm and beauty of zhangjiajie winter snow.Translated by Sophia

2013-01-05 13:33 View：1735