A prestressed concrete box girder, which was 32.6 meters long, 12 meters wide and weighed 800 plus tons, was safely and accurately settled at the Sitouchong Bridge, a pass-through of the Shanghai-Kunming High-speed Railway in Hunan section, by a 900 tons’bridge girder erection machine at 9 o'clock of December 9.Shanghai-Kunming High-speed Railway, one of the national key programs of the "four longitudinal and four crosswise high-speed railways", is made up of three sections, namely, Shanghai-Hangzhou section, Hangzhou-Nanchang section and Changsha-Kunming section. Upon completion, it will only take 4 hours to travel from Changsha to Kunming and Hangzhou respectively with the design speed of 250 kilometers per hour.The 416-kilometer long Changsha-Kunming section, 83.15% of which is to be tunnels, is scheduled to connect such cities as Changsha, Xiangtan, Loudi, Shaoyang and Huaihua. Nine newly-established railway stations including Xiangtan North Railway Station will be covered. Translator: Wang Bilian Source: Hunan Official Web Portal

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On the evening of Dec. 5, Lu Jianping, director of the Publicity Department of Hunan Province and his Fujian counterpart Yuan Rongxiang agreed upon cultural development cooperation. This is reported to be the first time the two provinces have initiated cooperation in the field of culture. Both provinces are included in "9 + 2" Pan-Pearl River Delta (PPRD) regional economic cooperation area (9 refers to nine provinces of Fujian, Hunan, Jiangxi, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan, and 2 refers to Hong Kong and Macao). To carry forward the cultural undertakings and accomplish the goal of building a culturally dominant province, the two provinces have exerted greater efforts in exploring interprovincial development pattern of culture and exploiting their individual strengths for mutual benefit. The two sides have vowed to further the bilateral communication and cooperation in creating fine literary and artistic works, developing the cultural market with joint efforts, and strengthening cooperation in cultural projects and communication among relevant talents, in a bid to boost the cultural industry.To realize this common goal, the publicity and cultural departments of the two provinces are scheduled to establish a multi-level exchange visits mechanism and a work information sharing platform. Fujian and Hunan delegates sign cultural development cooperationTranslator: Zhou Jingqi Source: Hunan Official Web Portal

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On December 12, the Happy Day for Stay-at-Home Children of Migrant Workers was celebrated in Hexing Primary School in Guzhou Town, Shaoyang County, Shaoyang City, Hunan Province. It is the third time for the children in the county to enjoy a festival of this kind since its establishment in 2009.Till now, 120 mental health counseling stations have been established, and video and phone facilities have been installed in all the schools with available network which will open free of charge for over 60,000 left-behind children to help them contact their parents.Translator: Zhou Jingqi Source: Hunan Official Web Portal

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The Combined photo shows the moon in various stages of a total lunar eclipse over Shenchi, north China's Shanxi Province, on Dec. 10, 2011. Enthusiastic skywatchers across China swarmed to streets, planetariums and mountains to watch the total lunar eclipse on Saturday night, the best such celestial show in China in ten years. The spectacle, which could be admired in much of the world, began at around 7:30 p.m. in Beijing and lasted for six hours, when Earth moved between the sun and the moon and cast its shadow over the lunar disk.However, the refracted sunlight still illuminated the moon, making it appear reddish and supersized.In Beijing, more than 500 astrophiles went to the city's planetarium to watch the sky show with the help of four optical telescopes."The lunar eclipse tonight is quite enjoyable for ordinary watchers as it happens at such a fine Saturday night," said Zhu Jin, head of Beijing Planetarium.In Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, local residents and tourists took to the West Lake despite a steep drop in temperature after a cold front swept across the region.Southwest China's Tibetan Autonomous Region also witnessed an influx of skywatchers and photographers, who are attracted by the plateau's clean air and shiny night."I traveled here all the way from Chongqing just to capture the best of the moon, and Tibet's clear sky has not disappointed me," said Yang Long, a journalist photographer from the southwestern municipality of Chongqing.Saturday's total lunar eclipse is considered the best of its kind since 2001, according to Wang Sichao, a research fellow with Nanjing-based Zijinshan Astronomical Observatory under the Chinese Academy of Sciences."It is the best because it offers people residing in China a perfect chance to observe the entire process," said Wang.The next total lunar eclipse would occur in October 2014, but the Chinese had to wait until 2018 to enjoy an entire process, Wang added.On the country's popular micro-blogging sites, photos by professional and amateur photographers were widely forwarded, and topics about the eclipse received millions of comments as of Saturday evening.Local newspapers and airline companies also summarized or recommended those flights offering the best view of the eclipse in the air. Source: Xinhua(Xinhua/Fan Minda)

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The Final of the 4th Tour de Xiangjiang River Cycling Race was held in Changsha on December 12. Over 300 players from Professional Men's Team, Amateur Men's Team and Women's Team participated in the competition.Zuo Jianqiu, one-armed player from Xiangtan, said that he felt happy when finishing his competition even though he could not obtain any position. He enjoyed the journey more than the destination since cycling is not only a good  physical exercise but also important for mental fitness.According to Chen Jianmin, secretary-general of Hunan Cycling Association and initiator of Tour de Xiangjiang River Cycling Race, 3 national champions have emerged from the competition since its founding in 2004.Chen stated that the competition aimed at carrying out the programs of national fitness and environmental protection, as well as promoting low-carbon life.Translator: Wang Xiaolu Source: Hunan Official Web Portal

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Seven Chinese cities agreed on Saturday they would form a joint campaign to inscribe the ancient maritime Silk Road into the UNESCO World Heritage list.The seven port cities, namely Beihai, Guangzhou, Quanzhou, Ningbo, Yangzhou, Penglai and Zhangzhou, signed a program of action at a forum in east China's Zhejiang Province, pledging to cooperate on the application efforts.A platform will be built to facilitate governments, museums, and cultural relics authorities of the seven cities to co-study and preserve cultural heritages related to the ancient trade route, said the agreement.The seven cities served as important export ports in Chinese history, from which silk and porcelain products started to be shipped to regions as far as east Africa more than 2,000 years ago. Source: Xinhua

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Residents in Xinkang Township, Wangcheng County appreciated drama culture on December, 14. Over 20 million yuan was invested to renovate the old market town into a drama culture street.

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Over 500 Million Yuan of the Tourist Commodities' Sales Will be Managed by One Single Scenic Spot at  ZhangjiajieThe agency of the Xibu street, one scenic spot in Wulingyuan, Zhangjiajie, signed an strategic cooperation agreement, on November 30th, with other nine travel agencies such as the Zhangjiajie Yuntong-kanghui International Travel Agency, the Zhangjiajie branch office of  Hunan CTS, the Zhangjiajie Qinheli Incorporated Travel Company, etc. These 10 agencies will cooperate with each other to provide the tourists with the integrated service facilities, and to improve the income from the entertainment, shopping, etc. at the Wu Lingyuan Scenic Spot. The government of Zhang Jiajie invested 400 million yuan to the Wu Linyuan scenic spot and covered a 70-thousand-square-meter piece of land to build this tourist street with stream surrounded which is featured with entertainment, shopping, local snacks and hotels, etc. and which is for leisure and holiday in order to manage the target of being one of the international tourist attractions, to present as the symbol of the best products of Wu Linyuan scenic spot, and to improve the quality of the service and tourism products there for the satisfaction of the tourists and also the local dwellers.  Mr. Chen Kezu, the vice chairman of the branch of the Zhang Jiajie travel agency association, made it pretty clear in the signing ceremony that all the nine travel agencies that had signed the agreement with the agency of the Xi Bu street had received, till now, a great number of tourists which actually makes up more than 70 percent of the whole of the Zhang Jiajie travel region and there, totally, had been 3.10 million tourists who had visited the main scenic spots of Wu Linyuan to the end of this October so that the 70 percent tourists brought 500 million yuan or so to Wu Linyuan scenic spot if the consumption level of average per capita be counted as 200 to 300 yuan and they therefore had promoted the local travel consumption.Translated By Vincent Chou

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On Nov. 09, as the picture illustrated, a tourist was walking on the glass plank road at the Tianmen Mountain, Zhangjiajie. The newly-built glass plank road in the Zhangjiajie Timen Mountain National Forest Park had been formally opened to the tourists. This glass plank road, with clouds flowing on, located at the west route by the cliff in the National Forest Park, is with the length of 60m, and its highest elevation reaches 1430m, inclined to compare with the Ghost-Valley Plank Road by the cliff, the glass viewing platform stretching to the air, and the wooden suspension bridge spanning across the valley according to the relevant introduction. All the tourists are required to wear shoe covers in order to keep the road entirely clean and transparent for sightseeing.Translated By Vincent Chou 

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