On December 13rd, in Kuala Lumpur, The capital of Malaysia, “Far Pandora, Near Zhangjiajie” Tourism product promotion is holding. The first world natural heritage, World Geopark Zhangjiajie landform scenery is highly appreciated.Zhangjiajie mountains like picture scroll. Zhangjiajie people will use the world’s most prestigious resources, vigorously developing zhangjiajie landscape sightseeing tour, sports, photography, etc. Series of tourism scenery landscape products will advocate ecological, healthy, environmental protection, low carbon tourism concept of civilization.Malaysia tourism bureau said, Zhangjiajie world natural heritage landscape is rare in China, enjoyed by tourists in Malaysia. Malaysia had more than 140 tourists visit to China last year, To visit China this year, The number of year-on-year growth is expected to more than 25%. Zhangjiajie is the masterpiece of nature, and people will have a psychological shock.Translated by Sophia

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China’s biological science and technology museum is the world’s first biological science and technology museum of giant salamander. The educational knowledge and interest are in harmony to be an organic whole.Adoption of advanced multimedia technology such as sound, light, electricity, etc. It aims to show visitors the salamander biological science knowledge and Zhangjiajie world geological park geological science knowledge.When the off-season is coming, Zhangjiajie giant salamander science and technology museum startes to rest on December 16th, and upgrades to March next year to be normal business again.Translated by Sophia

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On the annual meeting of 2013 12th National Mountaineering Outdoor Sports that held on Dec 11th, Zhangjiajie initially puts forward ten outdoor traveling excellent routes, for the purpose to build up “Outdoor Paradise” by 2015. Xu chuan, secretary of the party group of China National General Administration of Sports, Cao ren yuan, discipline-team leader of Hunan Administration of Sports and Chen dan feng, member of Zhangjiajie standing committee and deputy mayor attend the meeting.Developing outdoor tourism is one of the key projects in Zhangjiajie’s upgrade and update of tourism. In September this year, Zhangjiajie set up outdoor tourism product working group; at the end of Nov, Zhangjiajie’s first outdoor tourism promotional video was released. In this time, the ten outdoor tourism routes are mainly hiking routes, including rock climbing, cave exploration and water outdoor. “The same Zhangjiajie; Different outdoor paradise”. Mr. Chen remarks, As the headstream of Lishui river, Zhangjiajie is bestowed with mountains, waters and caves, with rich outdoor tourism resources. At present, a French professional team is making plans on Zhangjiajie’s outdoor sports and it is expected to build up “Outdoor paradise” by the summer of 2015.By Crystal

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On Dec 11th, Approved by National Tourism Bureau, The “2013 China Tourism Billboard” oreganized by China Tourism Association and China Tourism Daily enters into the comfiming and voting phase. It is reported among the comfirmed three major categories with 14 items, ZJJ Wulingyuan scenic spot is selected into 2013 “Beautiful China”top ten tourist attractions.There are 30 tourist attractions that are selected into 2013 “Beautiful China” top ten tourist attractions: Beijing Badaling Great Wall, Hainan No Place That Far, Jiangxi Lushan Mount, Sichuan Mount Emei, Shanxi Terra-cotta Warriors, Etc, and ZJJ Wulingyuan is listed into the item as the only one site in Hunan. During the two phase of public voting and expert voting, each makes up 50%. By the end of December, 25th, 2013, Public voting can log-in the First Tourism Website to cast their votes. The “Beauty Contest” final result will be released on the third China Tourism Development Annual Meeting in early 2014.By Crystal

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According to the Hunan Provincial Price Bureau on December 9, it approved the Zhangjiajie Municipal Price Bureau's application of providing free tickets for Wulingyuan's core scenic areas during the World Heritage Open Week.According to the approval, visitors to the core scenic areas of Wulingyuan during the World Heritage Open Week, from December 25 to 31, 2013, will be provided with free tickets (65 yuan of environmental protection vehicle ticket excluded). Such vehicles for transporting visitors as the cableways, elevators, and tour buses maintain the current prices. The present ticket price of Wulingyuan's core scenic area is 180 yuan per person. The price department will supervise and urge the operation and management office of the scenic spot to publish related items including the range and time for the free ticket policy at noticeable places of the ticket office.Besides, scientific knowledge publicity and education activities are to be held during the open week.Translator: Hao JingruSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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Recently, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People's Republic of China released the latest annual evaluation report of national industrial development quality. It showed that Hunan's industrial development quality ranks ninth nationwide, and takes the lead in provinces with greatest potentiality, staying top among the six provinces in central China.This year, the province has obsoleted out-dated industrial projects in such four main types as smelting, cement making, tanning and lead-acid battery, involving 162 enterprises, which effectively optimized the stock structure of industrial economy. Currently, the ratio that the added-value created by the six high energy consumption industries takes in the province's above scale industry dropped by about 10%, from 41.4% in 2007 to 31.5% in 2012. The development quality of industrial economy has seen significant improvement.Translator: He YaoSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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On Dec 10th, ZJJ Wulingyuan tourism promotion team pays visit to the biggest entry and exit travel agnency Panorama Tours in Indonesia. Mr.Budi Titawisatage, The general maneger of the agency remarks they plan to organize company top officals and foreign center group staff to visit Zhangjiajie for inspecting tourism resources in 2014, hoping to build a long-term anf friendly tourism cooperation relations with Zhangjiajie.On that very day, ZJJ Wulingyuan tourism promotion team visit Panorama Tours’ household overseas travel group center, group award center and other foreign tourism key working sectors, learning the company’s tourism product development, route packing and attraction image promotion in foreign countries. It is reported Panorama Tours organizes neasr 700,000 tourists to travel to China every year and recepted over two million Chinese tourists coming to Indonesia for sightseeing. The recommended time for Indonesian tourists to travel in Zhangjiajie is focused in May to Oct, and about 6,000 Indonesian tourists have been sent to Zhangjiajie in 2013.Mr.Budi Titawisatage thinks highly of Zhangjiajie’s visit to Indonesia for recommending their tourism scenery. He remarks although there is rare tourism attractions to come to Indonesia for promoting tourism products, Zhangjiajie takes a first step, which makes their tourism counterparts pay respect to them; he also indicates from next year, They will list Zhangjiajie into the key tourism promotion routes in China and try to open the direct chater flights between Dajakarta-Guangzhou(Chengdu)-Zhangjiajie or Dajakarta-Zhangjiajie.During the visit, on behalf of Zhangjiajie government, Li xueqing, Vice director of Zhangjiajie Tourism Bureau, awards the Tourism Contribution medal to panorma, for prasing their devotion to bilateral tourism cooperation. Hou jiaji, deputy secretary of Wulingyuan invites Mr.Budi Titawisatage to come to Zhangjiajie for field tourism resources inspection.By Crystal

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From December 12 to 13, CHNG Ken-Wei, center director (China) of Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA), and Yeung Kwok Keung, director of Infocomm Singapore Center (ISC), paid a visit to Hunan with other enterprise operators from ten corporations likeSoftfoundry International Pte Ltd. They conducted field investigation on smart city construction in Changsha and Zhuzhou and sought for exchange and cooperation opportunities with localgovernments and relative enterprises.Up to 2012, 189 corporations from Singapore have been approved to operate and invest in Hunan, accounting for 1.47% of the total number. The paid-in foreign capital reached 743 million US dollars, taking up 1.64% of the total in Hunan.Authorities from the Department of Commerce of Hunan Province said that the visit was dedicated to enrichingSingapore enterprises' understanding about Hunan's planning and constructing of smart city, thus enhancing cooperation and exchange in smart city construction between both sides.Smart City Construction Forum between Changsha and Singapore is held in Changsha.Translator: Li XuanSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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