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After more than four years’ construction, the main structure of the renovated Hunan Provincial Museum has been basically completed. The photo above taken on July 18 shows the new building is under construction. The museum was closed on June 18, 2012 and it is scheduled to be open to the public next July. Translator: Yu Jiangjiang Source: Hunan Official Web Portal
2016-07-18 10:31
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Photos taken on March 15 show rape flowers blooming on the thousand-mu terraced fields of Yanpaixi Village of Guzhang County. Thanks to the profound history, extensive culture and distinctive residential houses, the village was added to the list of Chinese Traditional Ancient Villages in 2012. In recent years, great efforts have been put to renovate and revitalize the houses in poor condition, and improve the outlook of the traditional village. A great number of ancient residential houses therefore are well preserved. Translator: Xiao JuanSource: Hunan Official Web Portal
2016-03-20 10:33
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Aizhai Base-jumping Festival 2015 was held in Jishou, the capital city of Xiangxi Tujia & Miao Autonomous Prefecture on August 29. Nine parachuting athletes from both China and Russia made astonishing jumps from Aizhai Bridge. The jumping base is located at the sightseeing storey of the Bridge and the vertical distance is only as long as 350 meters. It requires all the sky drivers to open their parachutes in 6 seconds while doing single jump, group jump, slackline jump and swing jump.The Aizhai Bridge is a suspension bridge on the G65 Baotou-Maoming Expressway near Jishou, Hunan, China. The bridge was built as part of an expressway from southwest China's Chongqing Municipality to Changsha.With a main span of 1,146 meters (3,760 ft) and a deck height of 336 meters (1,102 ft), as of 2013, it is the seventh-highest bridge in the world and the world's fifteenth-longest suspension bridge. Of the world's 400 or so highest bridges, none has a main span as long as Aizhai. It is also the world's highest and longest tunnel-to-tunnel bridge.The first base jump from Aizhai Bridge was held in 2012 and extreme sports lovers from 13 countries attended.Translator: Liu PingboSource: Hunan Official Web Portal
2015-09-02 09:27
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It is reported this has been the largest-scale photography collection activity organized by Wulingyuan district. In the light of 7 photography collection lines, over 1,000 photographers fall into 20 groups and make field photography shooting on ZJJ Wulingyuan Tianzi Mount, Yuanjiajie, Yellow Dragon Cave, Golden Whip Stream and Bao Feng lake, etc.Among these photographers, some are civil photography lovers and others are famous photographers from Malaysia and Hong Kong. Enjoying natural heritages in the cave, appreciating idyllic scenery outside the cave, in Yellow Dragon Cave, these photographers cast their cameras on original-ecologically idyllic scenery and intelligent Tujia maids and are enchanted by the all sorts of strange shapes of stalagmites in the cave.ZJJ Wulingyuan is the first group of World Natural Heritage and World Geopark, as well as the first National Forest Park and the first group of National 5A Scenic Spot. It is bestowed with precipitous mountains, rare peaks, limpid stream, secluded gorges and splendid caves. In 2011 and 2012, Zhangjiajie held two International Internet Photography Contests, attracting over 5,000 photographers from home and abroad to focusing on Zhangjiajie’s beautiful scenery all year around.By Crystal
2014-01-06 12:53
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On October 8th, Victor•Kovats, One of the second world wing flight championships athletes, fell from Zhangjiajie Tianmen Mountain with great misfortune. According to Zhangjiajie Government and event organizers, The cause of the accident may be related to “Technical error test process”. At present, Zhangjiajie is mobilize a rescue team of more than 200 people along the canyon precipice go all out search and rescue.Victor•Kovats from Hungary, Has 6 years skydiving experience, contains 700 times wing loading skydiving. He once won the third Hungarian wing loading skydiving championship and 2012 European wing competitive championship. His excuse for this entry is ranking among the fastest flying dreams.Translated by Sophia
2013-10-11 09:58
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From October 13th to 15th,2013,The 2nd Wing-outfitted Flight World Championship will be held in ZJJ Tianmen Mount. Top eight competitors of last season will contend with this year’s 8 competitors standing out from preliminaries.According to the sponsor, competitors will have to fly down from a cliff which has a altitude difference of about 700 meters and continuously make three-time turns in the gorges with a hourly speed of 120 kilometers. They will time it until competitors cross the ropeway line finally. Who uses the shortest time will win.Wing-outfitted Flight World Championship is the first globally wing-outfitted flight competition. In October, 2012, The first season was also held in Tianmen Mount, Zhangjiajie City.Translated by Becky
2013-08-30 01:37
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On April 19th , the annual meeting for the 3th China Independent Innovation is held in Great Hall. Changsha, Shenzhen ,Chongqing and other cities are conferred China’s top ten innovative city. It is the second time that Changsha is again entitled this honor after 2011. Deputy mayor Xia jian ping, on the behalf of Changsha, is to accept this prize in Beijing.In order to accelerate the construction of innovation-oriented country and open a new journey towards a scientifically and technologically strong nation, the Economic Daily, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Tsinghua University jointly bring out the assessment of China’s top ten innovative city. The evaluation index system is composed of four secondary indicators like technological development,self-independent innovation, transformation in development mode and industry innovation, and ten tertiary indicators and fifty-five level 4 indicators. Among the 283 participating cities from the whole country, Changsha outstands itself again with the title of the 2012 China’s top ten innovative city, ranking five on the list.Translated by Crystal
2013-04-18 18:14
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The weather gets warmer, everywhere is full of breath of spring. Zhangjiajie national forest park is filled with green mountains. The airport road and traffic green island reflect with green trees and fresh flowers. Elegant vibrant spring figure appears in front of people.Zhangjiajie works actively to promote ecological construction, the “green” today not only stay in the rural mountain, the core scenic area, is also goes into the city streets, public life.In 2012, zhangjiajie regards ecological construction as the center, overall implementation of the “mountain greening, city greening, road greening, drainage greening, villages and towns greening”, thus building a harmonious development of ecological system in urban and rural area. A low carbon livable urban and rural living environment.Translated by Sophia
2013-03-17 23:06
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The First Dongjiang Lake Peach Blossom Festival was held in Bailang Township, Zixing City, Hunan Province on March 17, 2013. Over 100 domestic and overseas beauties performed on peach blossom tales, a well-received feast for more than 10,000 tourists from all over the country. Bailang Township is located in the national 4A-level Dongjiang Lake Scenic Area. It is famous for being the hometown of Bai Wei, a renowned Chinese writer. Its water area covers 120,000 mu (8,000 hectares), occupying half of Dongjiang Lake. There is also a peach forest with a covered area of over 2,000 mu (133.33 hectares). In spring, when the beautiful flowers are in full bloom, tourists, mainly from Changsha, Zhuzhou, Xiangtan, Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao stream into the scenic spot, with a daily average of 2,000 visitors. Since last year in order to expand and develop tourism industry, Zixing City has exerted special efforts to build itself into the most charming water city in the country and transform Dongjiang Lake into a world-famous scenic area. In 2012, the city received five million tourists, 30 % more than that of last year and realized total tourism revenue of three billion Yuan, an increase of 30% over the previous year. Translator: Lv XuefenSource: Hunan Official Web Portal
2013-03-17 22:44
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On April 1st,2013,Taiwan visitors can directly flight to zhangjiajie. As the first scenic area which can accept Taiwan direct flights, zhangjiajie will attract more Taiwan tourists this year. The direct flight will accept more than 13000 Taiwanese tourists.As the cross-strait tourism exchange is becoming more and more widely, more and more Taiwan tourists fall in love with zhangjiajie. According to incomplete statistics, in 2012, the core wulingyuan scenic area has a reception of more than 150000 Taiwan tourists to sightseeing, and inspection.Zhangjiajie, this year, will also carry out a series of image promotion, and multi-angle publicity. It aims to show zhangjiajie landscape and humanities landscape, let more Taiwan compatriots to know zhangjiajie.Translated by Sophia
2013-03-07 22:58
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