SINGAPORE, May 28 (Xinhua) -- Visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi and his Singapore counterpart K.Shanmugam held talks on Monday on bilateral relations, regional cooperation, as well as regional and international issues both care about. Yang said the momentum in the bilateral relations has been sound, with frequent exchange of visits by the leaders of the two nations. The bilateral cooperation has been proceeding smoothly in fields such as trade and economy, investment, finance, education, culture, defense, law enforcement and human resources.China will keep on with its efforts to grow the long-term friendly ties and cooperation with Singapore, which it considers an important and special cooperation partner, the Chinese foreign minister said.Yang called on both sides to work together further boost the exchanges and bilateral cooperation across various fields.Yang said that China shall continue to support the efforts of Southeast Asian nations to build the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) community, and that it looks forward to working together with the ASEAN member nations, including Singapore, to push for further progress in the China-ASEAN strategic partnership.The sustained development and prosperity of Asia depend on the common efforts of the countries in the region, the Chinese foreign minister said. China is willing to boost the exchanges of views and coordination with Singapore, and it is willing to work together with Singapore to push for the continued healthy and steady development of the East Asian cooperation on the right track, Yang said.The Singapore foreign minister said that his country is willing to boost the exchanges and cooperation with China, and share and draw on the experience of each other in the course of development. It is willing to constantly expand the scope of its pragmatic cooperation with China. Singapore is also willing to make common efforts together with China to contribute to the regional development and prosperity, he said.The two foreign ministers also exchanged their views on international and regional issues that both care about.Yang arrived in Singapore on Monday for a two-day visit. He also met with Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Deputy Prime Minister, Coordinating Minister for National Security and Minister for Home Affairs Teo Chee Hean on Monday.Source: Xinhua

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Funeral dance , an ancient ceremonial dance at the funeral which is endemic to Tujia people ,especially areas around Qing river waters.Popular as the waving dance is , funeral dance also heated welcomed by Tujia people.

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Gu(蠱) ,a most mysterious witchery in Western Hunan,is as well-known as Thailand's "Jiangtou shu" in South Asia. Gu in Xiangxi usually has two types,namely Love Gu and Hatred Gu.

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Funeral dance, an ancient ceremonial dance at the funeral which is endemic to Tujia people,especially areas around Qing river waters.Popular as the waving dance is, funeral dance also heated welcomed by Tujia people. The fact is only men not women can be allowed to performance funeral dance. The dance movements all take birds and animals as imitating models,that is,continuously shake your whole body and sway your haunch at a side-to-side movement with your hands shaking freely.Funeral dance is a presentation of daring beauty.As the history goes,since Tang dynasty ,the ancestors of Tujia people already had the record of funeral dance.Till today, every time there is a old one passed away,the relatives and neighbors of him/her will gather together to have a funeral dance .Generally speaking,two men or four stand in front of the coffin to have a face-to -face dance ,then more and more men will join in ,usually the peak hits over hundreds of dancers and audience.Not only the dances but also the songs to fully display the beauty of funeral dance.Both the dances and songs create a happy and joyful atmosphere .In closing ,all the performers will say "sadness are gone" in one voice to express their wishes of removing sorrows.As usual, funeral dance is the ceremony held for those old ones who died a well-deserved death.Soured and Translated by Aileen

2012-06-02 23:40 View：1352

The construction of the glass path, cable car, bungee jumping and other supporting facilities will be started in the latter half of the year at the Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon, which is expected to be open to the public at the end of 2013. The glass path, projected to be the longest in the world, will fill in the gap of bungee jump experiencing in Zhangjiajie. World's famous designer Haim Dotan, who designed the Israel Pavillion at the Shanghai World Expo 2010, will be the chief designer of the glass path. It will be built between the peaks on both sides of the grand canyon. According to the plan, the whole path completely built of transparent glass will be 330 meters in length and 3.2 meters in width and it is going to be 265 meters away from the bottom of the grand canyon. In the middle of the path, the world's highest bungee can be experienced.Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon Scenic Spot is famous for its grand canyon and there will be various types of landscapes ranking highly and distributing densely, which is going to change its current single sight-seeing tour to a multi-functional tour for resort, leisure, entertainment, exploration, conference and business. Translator: ZhanpingSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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Chaling is named after Tea and produces the best drink in the world. Chaling County is the only well-preserved stone city dating back to the Song Dynasty (960-1279 AD). Yunyang Mountain is known as "The Ancient Nanyue" and it was the first place that Xu Xiake was eager to visit. The Former Site of Chaling Soviet Government is the first county-level soviet government.The 2012 China (Hunan) Red Tourism Festival will be held in Chaling on May 30. This event aims at improving the tourism in Chaling and developing the Yunyang Mountain and Dongyang Lake into a praying place and an ecological resort respectively, upgrading the old district into a historic cultural city, promoting the Former Site of Chaling Soviet Government into an educational base for patriotism and anti-corruption and forging the Chinese Tea Culture Industrial Park into a spiritual home of tea lovers around the world.Theme activities include large-scale self-drive tour, group wedding ceremony for 100 couples on Yunyang Mountain, signing ceremony of investment attraction, opening ceremony of Mijiang Academy, opening ceremony the event & performances, and cuisine festival.Former Site of Chaling Soviet GovernmentMishui RiverIndustrial Park of Tea Ancestor CultureMijiang AcademyYunyang MountainAncient Nanyue PalaceThe Ancient City of the Southern Song DynastyTranslator: Zhang ShuSource: Zhangjiajie Official Web Portal

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Shaoshan folk song has been listed among the third batch of Hunan's intangible cultural heritage items issued recently. Shaoshan City is pleased to announce Mao Aixia and Mao Jiyu as representative inheritors of the city's first intangible cultural heritage items.Legend has it that Emperor Shun once played Shao (music of Shun) on Shaoshan Mountain during his southbound trip and "when all nine parts of Xiaoshao music were completed, phoenix arrived appropriately", hence the place was named Shaoshan.In the gradual blending of the gentle and soft Shao music with local customs throughout history, the Shaoshan folk song, featuring varied tunes and beautiful melody, takes shape.Translator: Liu FenSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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BEIJING, May 23 （Xinhua） -- More than 260 prefecture-level Chinese cities are building digital geographic systems to provide better services to citizens, the National Administration of Surveying, Mapping and Geoinformation （NASMG） said on Wednesday.The NASMG said in a statement that over 100 of those cities have put their systems into full operation, including Taiyuan and Jincheng in Shanxi province, Huizhou and Foshan in Guangdong province, Yantai and Weihai in Shandong province.In the meantime, about 10 lower-level counties have also finished the construction of digital geographic systems.The digitalization of cities has become an important instrument for the government's decision making, and also helped improve citizens' quality of life, the NASMG explained.The statement said the country will build a digital geographic framework of China by 2015.It said the NASMG will choose some cities with well-developed digital geographic systems as pilot sites to build "smart cities," referring to urban centers administered with intelligent technology such as cloud computing.Source: Xinhua

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BEIJING, May 26 (Xinhua) -- Georgia has officially become a new travel destination for Chinese citizens, according to an agreement reached between tourism authorities of the two countries.The decision was announced Friday after officials of the two countries signed an Approved Destination Status (ADS) Memorandum of Understanding Friday in Beijing.Zhu Shanzhong, vice director of the National Tourism Administration, said the signing and implementation of the MOU is expected to bring a new wave of Chinese tourists to the country.He also suggested Georgian tourism authorities to focus on promotion in China and develop more tourism products that are particularly tailored for Chinese tourists.Tourists have flocked to Georgia in recent years to bath in hot springs in the capital Tbilisi or relax on the country's Black Sea coast beaches.Source: Xinhua

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Red Stone Forest is located in Guzhang County of Western Hunan, a scenic area of ​​about 20 square kilometers. Scenic spots throughout the tall rocks of various shapes,The stone color is changeable, and change with the weather, time and season.The stone is red in Sunny day, the stone is black in the rain, the stone is brown and red on a cloudy day;and Stone colored difference in the morning and evening.Such a peculiar color stone called the world is unique.Source: Zhangjiajie Official Web Portal

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