On 12th Dec. Afternoon, a meeting on tourism gourmet festival during 2012 Chinese New Year was convoked by ZJJ Tourism Bureau. Attendants were representatives from some ZJJ hotels, ZJJ tourism and cuisine association.In the meeting, manuals of “Advices on Tourism Gourmet Festival in 2013 Spring Festival” were handed out by ZJJ Tourism Bureau and detailed issues on this activity were discussed over the meeting.The activity is known as a large-scale commercial celebration for boosting cultural tourism whose theme is cultural tourism of gourmet. It is to start from December 15, 2012 to March 15, 2013, which will last for 3 months. This activity will create an atmosphere of joyous, peace and happiness and will definitely absorb more tourist to ZJJ in winter.Previous Food Festival in ZJJBy Brenda

2012-12-15 22:54 View：1800

Recently the evaluation committee of the national scenic spots quality level has declared through the No. 201212 file that the Helong Memorial at Sangzhi County already reached a 4A level in scenic spots quality requirements and became a national 4A level scenic spot. This honor is a further national brand of Helong Memorial followed by the reputation known as the National Relic Protection Unit, the Demonstration Base of National Patriotism Education, the Demonstration Base of Military Education, one of the thirty delicate Red Tour Lines and one of the one hundred classic Red Scenic Spots.ZJJ Helong Memorial is located in Helong General’s hometown, Hongjia Guan Village of Sangzhi County. Nowadays this memorial has been constructing the scenic spot and enhancing the tourism environment sharply through perfecting tourism transportation, completing the viewing facilities, strengthening tourists’ safe, enhancing cleaning management, providing post office service and improving shopping in tour. Simultaneously this memorial also actively conducted the evolution resources development and invited experts in Chinese army’s history and the history of Chinese Communist Party to explore and refine the cultural relic here so as to make a full use of every single relic. Moreover old red army men and the offspring of the second red army men were interviewed to find historical details therefore to promote the legendry color of the relic and the sites and to make noticeable the attraction and power of amazing tourists.Translated by Vincent Chou

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In the afternoon of 12 December, 2012, Zhangjiajie Tourism Bureau held a conference for the activity of the 2013 Spring-Festival Tourism Gourmet Festival. And the managers of some of the bars here and the representatives from Zhangjiajie Tourist Association and Cuisine Association attended this conference.Accordingly, this festival, hosted by Zhangjiajie Municipal People’s Government, is a big celebration on culture, tour and commerce, and has the theme of Zhangjiajie Foods and Culture Tour. This activity will start on 15 December, 2012, and will last for three months to 15 March, 2013. This activity is held to strengthen the attraction of winter-season travel here, to cultivate a happy, auspicious, pleasing, and harmonious atmosphere for the spring festival tour so as to motivate the vitality of winter tour, and to boom the reputation of Zhangjiajie foods brands, and therefore to promote the reputation and influence of tour in Zhangjiajie.Translated by Vincent Chou

2012-12-15 22:53 View：1250

December 14th, it is twentieth anniversary of wulingyuan scenic spot which listed in the world heritage list. Twenty years, the world heritage, a “golden signboard” promoted the rapid tourism development.Listed in the list of world heritage for twenty years, wulingyuan actively implemented the world cultural and natural heritage convention, and invested billions of capital to increase the protection of the scenic spot precious natural resources, the ecological environment construction. It opened up 300 spots, built high standard tourism channel more than 300 kilometers, star hotel more than 30, nearly 30000 copies of tourism reception beds. And with the international advanced level of tourism infrastructure, such as, tianzi mountain cableway, huangshi village cableway, sightseeing elevator, huanglong hole ecological plaza, promoting the use of the conservation and utilization of coordinated development.Meanwhile, wulingyuan promulgated China’s first heritage protection of special laws and regulations, the hunan wulingyuan world natural heritage protection regulations. It gained the world geological park, China’s first 5 a-class tourist scenic spot, the national civilized scenic area and the international and domestic tourism crown, with an increasing popularity and a good reputation degree.Translated by Sophia

2012-12-19 22:52 View：1262

On December 12th, 2012 international China media awards was judged by the overseas Chinese media cooperation organization. Zhangjiajie, with its magic charm of natural scenery, profound cultural foundation, the world famous tourist destination , won the award of “Top Ten Livable Place in China”.Other 9 places which got the award of “China top ten livable” are hangzhou, Qingdao, chengdu, dalian, Dali, suzhou, xiamen, lijiang, guangzhou. Zhangjiajie in the eighth of the ten best livable placesTranslated by Sophia

2012-12-17 22:51 View：1319

In ZJJ, an old giant salamander is expected to become “the world’s largest Chinese giant salamander”. The giant salamander, called “BenBen”, is nearly 130 years old, with 2 meters body length.2012 giant salamander protection and development BBS held at 13th. The guardian of “BenBen”, zhangjiajie gold giant salamander biological engineering corporation announced that it would declare for the world guinness record.Giant salamander is the world’s largest existing individual amphibians, because of its childish sound, commonly known as the “giant salamander,” living on earth for three hundred and fifty million years. For decades, with change of living environment , the world giant salamander drop quickly. At present, biological “living fossil” mainly originate in zhangjiajie, which has been treated as a protected animals by the world environmental organization, the Chinese government will protect it as a kind of animal.Translated by Sophia

2012-12-19 22:50 View：2646

The work conference on application of world cultural heritage of Hunan Province was held in Changsha on the morning of December 17. Laosi Town, regional defense system in Fenghuang and villages of the Dong people were included in the World Cultural Heritage Tentative List. At the meeting, the local governments of the three cultural relics were conferred the plates by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage (SACH). Meanwhile, they submitted target responsibility documents to Hunan Provincial People's Government and proposed measures to protect, regulate and manage these cultural relics, which laid a solid foundation for applying for World Cultural Heritage. Located in Sicheng Village of Lingxi Town in Yongshun County, Laosi Town is an ancient town governed by hereditary headmen of the Tujia ethnic group in west Hunan for over 800 years. Laosi Town, the most typical ancient cultural relic in minority nationality regions of southern China, offers precious materials for the study on the history of Tujia nationality, Chinese Tusi System (a special political system that China's ancient feudal dynasties applied to rule people in the ethnic group regions by granting hereditary titles to local leaders) and system of regional ethnic autonomy. Located in the hinterland of Wuling Mountains and known as the most beautiful county in China, Fenghuang County is an area mainly inhabited by the Miao ethnic group. Composed of Fenghuang ancient town, Chinese southern great wall and Huangsiqiao ancient town, the defense system in Fenghuang is one of the largest, best preserved and the most full-featured military sites in Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) and Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) in southern China. Translator: Xiao JuanSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

2012-12-18 22:29 View：1093

Altogether 5,467 entry-exit flights (ships) had been checked in Hunan with 800,575 passengers in total by December 13, 2012, setting a new record again.Hunan Border Defense Contingent innovates the service mode, improves the supporting services, and optimizes the customs clearance efficiency to bring the demonstration effect of Changsha Border Inspection Station into a full play. It cooperates with the customs, the inspection and quarantine bureaus, the safety Inspection and the international chheck-in units to conduct the "Comfortable and Convenient Project" to provide one-stop service. It also organizes the Lei Feng female service team of border inspection and the border inspection mobile workstation, provides "border inspection consulting service" for foreign-related enterprises, holds regular symposiums for airlines and travel agencies, launches the law popularizing service, standardizes the operation and simplifies customs procedures to realize the convenient customs clearance with high-efficiency, provides the loving service for the elderly, infirm, sick, disabled and pregnant, and offers courteous reception and convenience for major and special events in Hunan.Translator: Zhang ShuSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

2012-12-16 22:28 View：1171

"Green always greets my eyes wherever I go, which is quite similar in Belgium. I've visited Hunan much more frequently than other provinces in China." Patrick Nijs, the Belgian ambassador to China, expressed his favorable impression on Hunan. Mr. Patrick Nijs is somewhat an old China hand, for he was the Belgian general consul in Shanghai and Hong Kong and married a Chinese woman. Nijs opined that Hunan and Belgium share great potential for cooperation, for Belgium has advantage in such industries as steel, machinery, non-ferrous metals and environmental protection. Additionally, its environmental technologies stay at the world advanced level, including energy conservation and environmental protection technology in construction and harmless disposal technology of wastes. To build a resource-conserving and environment-friendly society, Hunan can work with Belgium in various aspects. Mr. Patrick Nijs expected to promote the cooperation between Belgium and Hunan in clean energy and environment protection industry via the "Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and Sustainable Development International Cooperation Forum" held in Changsha. Patrick NijsTranslator: Wu LirongSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

2012-12-15 22:26 View：1357

It is announced at the 2012 Seminar on Offshore Mineral Resources (Hunan) on December 14 that Hunan Weijin Investment Group will start a gold ore project in North Korea, making it the first Hunan enterprise to invest in North Korea. "North Korea is backward in infrastructure construction, so we can fulfill the requirements of mineral resources exploitation by offering technology and management support to the country's key projects like highways and hotels", said President of Hunan Weijin Investment Group Xia Juhua. He added that initially pumping 20 million US dollars into the gold ore project in North Korea, he is looking for collaborators to jointly exploit mineral resources like gold and rare earth at the seminar. According to Xia, the mineral right is within Unsan County of North Pyongan Province, and the estimated gold reserve volume is above 50 tons. To earn the right, the group has invested in the construction of Korea's first five-star hotel, which, with a planned height of 30 storeys, is expected to be completed in 2013.Translator: Liu FenSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

2012-12-15 22:24 View：1565