The Broad Homes Industrial Co., Ltd., a leading enterprise of China's industrialized construction, started to ship its complete houses at Chenglingji Port in Yueyang to Suriname in South America on November 18. The 18 thousand sets of complete houses, valued at four billion yuan, is undoubtedly a remarkable order of Hunan's import and export.In the first ten months this year, the total import and export volume of Hunan reached 19.14 billion USD, increasing by 20.5% year on year, of which 11.29 billion USD came from export with a growth of 27.5%.According to President of the Broad Homes Tang Fen, spare parts of the complete houses are usually assembled into building blocks for use only within one to two days, thoroughly changing the traditional construction pattern of using tiles and bricks by hand. The core competitiveness of this technology is high quality, favorable price, high efficiency, and green and environmental protection. Due to such technology, the industrialized green buildings made in China have been exported. In addition to Surinam, the complete housing projects are being promoted between the company and Brazil, Venezuela, the United States, as well as Russia.Translator: Lv XuefenSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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“Harmonious and happy homeland of shaddock, gathering in Jiangyong”. The 2nd China Shaddock Festival & Agricultural product Fair Opening Ceremony in Nanling Region kicks off in Fenghuang Square of Jiangyong County on the morning of Nov 11th. About 30,000 people who come from HK, Taiwan, Macao, Hunan, Guizhou, Guangdong and Jiangyong County merrily gather in here to observe the harvest. Shi yan ping, the member of Yongzhou standing committee, Shu ping, the member of city standing committee, Zheng bo shun, the deputy director of municipal people’s congress and Zhou xiu ying, The vice chairman of municipal political consultative conference attend the activity.Situated in the southern border area of Xiangxi and Jiangyong is enrich in natural and cultural landscape and selenium. It is well-known by its thousands-year riddle of Jiangyong Nvshu, thousands-year of ancient village–Shang gan tang, Yao people’s honeland–“Qian jia dong” and as well as popular for “Five species in Jiangyong”. The county was honored successively “The Homeland of China Shaddock” and “The hometown of China henry steudnera tuber”.In order to enable tourists to feel the unique charm of Jiangyong’s specialty, like shaddock, the festival carries out a series of activities, such as “Three-thousand-year of culture” self-driving, Picking shaddock journey, and tasting shaddock in taking part in “Pomelo orchard fruit party” and “Shaddock sports meeting”, inducing tourists to be hooked.By Crystal 

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Recently, Lonely Planet (LP), The famous travelling book in the world appraises and elects the 2014 global top ten travel places, offering new directions for people who are searching the best travel destinations in their 2014. Among the top ten destinations, The natural scenery and humanistic connotation enchant LP’s travel experts.Hunan becomes China’s only province that selected into LP.LP’s remark is: Hunan, China: the next hot travelling destination.Bestowed with incomparable scenery, rich cultural connotation, some remote places of Hunan have not received much attention from the rest of world. Decades of years ago, Its northwest mountains were known among the local minorities. But now, a new-type transportation network that connected by high-speed rail, high expressway and non-stop flights facilitates domestic and foreign cities to arrive cities in Hunan. City of Sky, the highest skyscraper in the world and the first phase of the Changsha metro that covered large scale will be finished in 2014. The province that combined tradition and modern together may serve the reason for your journey.Source from: Changsha Tourism Bureau WebsiteBy Crystal

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The Hunan Province Foreigner Photo Contest, undertaken by the Hunan Official Web Portal,As part of the 2nd Online Hunan Culture Festival  is to be launched from November 25th to December 15h, 2013undertaken by the Hunan Official Web Portal. ,The Contest, as part of the 2nd Online Hunan Culture Festival, is the only activity held for international friends working, studying, living and traveling in Hunan. It will offer a stage for them  the Hunan Province Foreigner Photo Contest is to be launched from November 25th, 2013 to Decmeber 15h. It will provide a stage for international friends to express their thoughts and views through art, voice their stories and share their feelings concerning life in Hunan,express their feelings and views through photographing art, communicate and strengthen their connection with Hunan, and further promote Huxiang culture to the world.Several events will be held during the Photo Contest including Hunan photography expedition toursphotography vacations throughout Hunan, international photography salonsinternational photo gallery showings, awards ceremony, photo exhibitions and more! 100 international friends will be invited to take a tour and have the opportunity to take photosexpedition tours to in famous tourist attractions, historical sites, leading enterprises, characteristic industries, and new towns around Hunan during Nov. 25 to Dec. 15. During the international photography salons, participants, local photographers and netizens will be invited to share photography skills together. Submitted photography will be showcased at photo galleries throughout the province. Contest participators, local photographers and netizens are invited to attend the events.On the morning of October 30, 2013, the Second Online Hunan Cultural Festival opened kicked off in Changsha. Seventeen internet cultural activities such as a series of activities related to "My Chinese Dream--- Dreaming Hunan" have been launched. The photo contest is the second internet time theme activity undertaken for by Hunan Official Web Portal to undertaken the activity of the Second Online Hunan Cultural Festival. following Last year, it had successfully undertake the activity of "Selection of Top 10 Huxiang Cultural Events" held successfully in 2012.

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On November 21, the 2013 EU-China Urbanization Partnership Forum, themed "Exchange and Learning for Mutual Benefit and Win-Win Results", was held in the Golden Hall of the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. The forum was hosted by the National Development and Reform Commission of PRC and the Directorate-General for Energy of European Commission. Leaders from China and Europe such as Premier of the State Council Li Keqiang, President of the Council of Europe Herman Van Rompuy, President and Vice President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso and Siim Kallas attended the forum and delivered speeches. Changsha Mayor Zhang Jianfei was invited to the main forum.At the forum, the Changsha Municipal People's Government and the Embassy of Sweden in Beijing, China signed a letter of intent on further jointly strengthening urbanization cooperation, promoting discussion on the important trend in urbanization development, and seeking solutions to tackle urbanization challenges confronted by the two sides.Translator: Hao JingruSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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On Nov 21st, ZJJ People’s Government and France Dyane Mountain Tourism Planning and Design Co., Ltd, hold MOU signing ceremony, and start to carry out cooperation on expanding Zhangjiajie’s outdoor leisure and tourism, for building up Zhangjiajie into a international well-known outdoor leisure and tourism paradise. Chen danfeng, the member of Zhangjiajie standing committee and deputy mayor attends the ceremony.As a red-blooded new-type tourism model, developing outdoor leisure and tourism is an effective way to transform Zhangjiajie’s tourism, as well as a vital measure to realize the dream of tourism resort. On the ceremong, Chen dan feng and Olivie who is the ECO of France Dyane Mountain Design Office sign on the MOU.According to the MOU, the two parties will start extensive cooperation in outdoor leisure and tourism; France Dyane Mountain Tourism Planning and Design Co., Ltd, will formulate development planning for Zhangjiajie outdoor leisure and tourism and offer sustainable and effective assistance to the project; at the same time, France Dyane Mountain Tourism Planning and Design Co., Ltd, will recommend Zhangjiajie’s outdoor project to potential interested parties in France and Europe, which enhance the two parties’ exchanges and pave way for building friendly cities relation between Zhangjiajie and renown cities in Alps.By Crystal

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At 10:00 am, Nov 18th, in Pinglang Village, Jishou City, Xiangxi Tujia Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Wulingyuan(Xiangxi) Tujia Miao Culture Ecological Protection Zone Construction & Digital Protection for Autonomous Prefecture Intangible Cultural Heritage project officially initiates its boot ceremony.Warm sunshine shining in Dong River Valley, Festival atmosphere prevails in Pinglang Village, Jishou City, where Miao people settle in. Dressed in festival splendid attire, they beat the Miao drum and sing Miao songs. After a brief ceremony, under a citrus tree and on the beach of Dong River, the first digital protection national intangible cultural heritage project–“Xiangxi Miao Drum Dance” is recorded amid such original and ecological situation. Shi shun ming, The 64 year-old inheritor of national intangible cultural heritage project and the second-generation Miao “Drum King” gives the performance of “Celebrate the harvest”.In May, 2010, The national Ministry of Culture approved to set up “Wulingyuan (Xiangxi) Tujia Miao Culture and Ecology protection Pilot Zone”; In march 21st, 2013, The over-all planning of the protection pilot zone has pasted the accreditation by Ministry of Culture; there are 24 items from autonomous prefecture that selected into national intangible cultural heritage list and 62 items that selected into provincial list; There are 22 national representative inheritors and 44 provincial representative inheritors. In Nov this year, China Digital protection Center for Intangible cultural Heritage carried out the first group of digital protection pilot project, autonomous prefecture became the first one in these 13 pilots and also one of the pilot that has two prefecture-level digital protection pilots for intangible cultural heritage.Source from: Hunan DailyBy Crystal

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Hunan has been selected as one of the "Best in Travel 2014 - Top 10 Regions" by the world famous tourism book "Lonely Planet" (shorted as LP). It is the only listed region in China.Praising Hunan as "the next hot tourist destination", LP considers "Hunan has made itself accessible to cities at home and abroad via its new transportation network of high-speed railway, expressway and non-stop flight. The world's would-be tallest skyscraper Sky City and the phase one of the Changsha subway project are expected to be accomplished in 2014. The province, integrating tradition with modern elements, may not match with tourists' expectation of China, but it may also be the reason for a travel."The top ten tourist destinations include Sikkim of India, the Kimberley of Australia, Yorkshire of England, Hokuriku of Japan, Texas of USA, Victoria Falls of Zimbabwe and Zambia, Mallorca of Spain, West Coast of New Zealand, Hunan of China, and Ha'apai of Tonga.Translator: Zhu MengxiaSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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