On the morning of January 30, nearly 1,000 visitors from home and abroad celebrated the Chinese Lunar New Year in such natural sceneries of Wulingyuan as Tianzi Mountain, Yuanjiajie, Huangshi Village, Golden Whip Stream, Huanglong Cave, and Ten-mile Gallery.Domestic tourists mainly included self-driving travelers from Guangdong and many migrant workers returning Zhangjiajie from coastal areas. Overseas tourists were mainly from South Korea, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan regions. Some of them were self-guided visitors from Europe and the US.Benefiting from free expressway toll during the Spring Festival and free admission tickets for self-driving travelers from Sichuan, Chongqing, and Guizhou, Wulingyuan is receiving this year’s first tourist peak in the golden week of Spring Festival. Tourism related functional departments and businesses in Wulingyuan have arranged enough personnel to ensure service level. Various folk cultural programs have been prepared to allow tourists to experience Zhangjiajie’s cultural charm while enjoying remarkable natural sceneries.Translator: Hao JingruSource: hunan.gov.cn

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The toll-free policy of expressways in Hunan for passenger cars begins from 0:00 of January 31 (the first day of the 2014 Chinese Lunar New Year) and lasts to 24:00 of February 6. From 0:00 to 6:00 on January 31, drivers don’t have to pick up a toll card at the entrance gate but need to hand it in at the exit gate. From 20:00 on February 6, drivers should pick up and hand over their pass cards as usual. At other times, drivers can enter or exit an expressway without having to pick up or hand over their cards.The policy only applies to passenger cars with seven or fewer seats as prescribed on their driving licenses issued by statutory machinery.Translator: Yang ChengfeiSource: hunan.gov.cn

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BEIJING, Jan. 30, 2014 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on late Jan. 30, 2014 shows hosts talking during the 2014 CCTV Spring Festival Gala, in Beijing, capital of China.Source: xinhuanet

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Wintersweet is a kind of flower which blossoms in winter in China. Because of its special blossom season different from most flowers which are in blossom in Spring and Summer, People are especially in favor of it for it symbolizing an independent and tough character of person. Chair Mao ever often praised Wintersweet in his poems.Now, In Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, You have chance to appreciate it. There is a wintersweet garden in Yellow Stone Village. Wintersweet is racing in full blossom. Some is white which looks like snow and some is red looks like fire. How lovely it is. A lot of domestic and foreign tourists were fascinated by its beauty and stopped for appreciation and taking photo with it. It is said that this year’s wintersweet is in blossom nearly a month earlier than last year for this year’s higher temperature. Enjoying the sunny winter and appreciating beautiful wintersweet at the same time must be a wonderful trip.By Patricia

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“Amazing Mountain Walls, Second to None”, the press conference themed “ New Discovery in Zhangjiajie---Marvelous Mountain Walls” was held in Beijing on January 16. Hunan’s tourist attraction Zhangjiajie promoted the marvelous  scenery of mountain walls to the world for the first time.Professor and municipal leader of Zhangjiajie Chen Anze and representatives of over 50 major media attended the press conference.Chen pointed out that the mountain wall group of Yangjiajie is an important component of “Zhangjiajie landform” scenery. The mountain walls were formed before the familiar stone columns of the Tianzi Mountain, Yuanjiajie, and Huangshizhai scenic areas, and were of extremely high scientific, ecological and aesthetic value. A single stone wall is common in sandstone landform, but it is quite rare to see so well-preserved and large-scale high stone walls in Yangjiajie. “The huge scale and remarkable scenery of the stone walls is unique in the world.”Marvelous scenery of mountain wallsTranslator: Hao Jingru

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Lying in the east of Changsha South Railway Station, the new station house for Shanghai-Kunming High-speed Railway is under decoration. The Hangzhou-Changsha section of the Shanghai-Kunming High-speed Railway is expected to open this September, by when it will take only four hours from Changsha to Hangzhou.Shanghai-Kunming High-speed Railway meets Beijing-Guangzhou High-speed Railway in Changsha with intersection in Changsha South Railway Station.To better serve Shanghai-Kunming High-Speed Railway, a new station house is built to enlarge the present station and is consistent with the existing style, according to the director of the construction unit. After completion, it will integrate with the old one to serve passengers of both Shanghai-Kunming and Beijing-Guangzhou High-speed Railways. At present, the station is under decoration, which is expected to be finished in April. Conditions for integration testing and commissioning work have already been available.Translator: Tang LiSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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From 15th, Jan., ZJJ “Charming Xiangxi”, An large scale national culture program, Will stop performance and restart on 31st, January.According to schedule of Hunan cultural department, from 17th, Jan.to 28 Jan., ZJJ “Charming Xiangxi” will be on behalf of Hunan go to Italy and Malta for new year’s sodality which organised by national culture department in condolence of overseas Chinese. Since last year when Zhangjiajie accepted this task, ZJJ “Charming Xiangxi” has made comprehensive preparation. Over 30 performers and 11 wonderful programmes were meticulously picked out and tensive rehearsal has proceed at the same time. All this has been done is to bring the mose essence of Zhangjiajie performance to overseas audience to set up good image of Zhangjiajie tourism.Great attention was paid and great support was given by leaders of department of tourism and culture to ZJJ “Charming Xiangxi”. At the present, performers are doing the last rehearsal and they have confidence in showing the best performance. It’s really worth of our continuous attention and let’s expect for their triumphant return.By Patricia

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The 2014 International Lighting Festival is scheduled to be held during February 4（the fifth day of the first lunar month) to 16 (the seventeenth day of the first lunar month) at Meixi Lake International New Town in Changsha.About fifty groups of fashionable and innovative colored lights began to be displayed from the evening of February 23. Bearing resource conservation in mind, an important idea in building a “two-oriented society”, the lights are mainly LED energy saving lamps. Besides, a leasing and renovation manner is adopted in some lights works to further save costs.Since 2014 is the year of horse (one of the Chinese Zodiac), the organizer makes numerous horse-themed lighting sets, of which “Portrait of Eight Steeds”, a large simulation lighting set, is particularly striking. In addition, the festival is expected to present night float parade for the first time, in a bid to provide a grand street party for visitors and Changsha citizens during the Spring Festival.Visitors walk on the lantern-decorated road. Various horse-themed colored lights are presented at the festival.Translator: Tang LiSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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