At the conference, Yao Shaowu, Propaganda Minister of District Committee, expressed his confidence in building the Poem Town in Wulingyuan for numerous domestic and foreign excellent work having been handed down in this miraculousl and of Wulingyuan. What’s important most for this Poetry Association remains in taking full advantage of preponderant resources of their own by on the one hand providing indigenous poets good environment to create and produce, and on the other hand improving communication with poet’s fraternity, aiming to attract more poetry lovers to Wulingyuan for better propaganda.Established 2005, Poetry Association of Wulingyuan District now possesses over 30 members.So far,nearly 2000 poems have been published including poetry collection of “The Weight of Hometown” composed by Li Yizhong,and “Poetic Journey” by Hu Shaocong and so on. With joint endeavor of all related parties, Wulingyuan is expected to become a Poem Town at an early date.By Patricia

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China Post held the launching ceremony in Changde on March 16 to issue the first set of "Peach blossom" stamps. This set, consisting of 12 stamps with a face value of 13.90 yuan, has the largest number among other sets of flower-themed stamp issued in recent years.The peach blossoms in the album are displayed in different manners and painted in elaborate style. At the same time, the fragrance of peach flower strikes reader's nose because of utilization of peach flavor-scented ink during printing process.Simultaneously, China Post also revealed such stamps as "A city in peach blossom- Changde", " Beautiful and luxuriant peach blossom", "Peach blossom world" and staple holder "Peach blossom" as well as the commemorative envelope.Peach blossom is a famous flower among Chinese, representing the coming of spring. It is a typical image endowed with deep affection and emotion in Chinese classical poetry.Translator: Wang BilianSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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High temperature goes on since early march, green willows in huanglong hole square of wulingyuan, follow with colorful flowers, welcoming the outing of the young men and women. According to statistics, March 8th to 10th, in zhangjiajie huanglong hole square, it has a tourism break of 10000 person-time, with the year-on-year growth of twenty percent.The sun is bright, with 30 acres of yellow rape flowers, attracting bees and visitors to see the flowers from time to time. In the pond of the square, green willows are blowing, swaying posture to welcome the tourists from home and abroad. On both sides, the blooming colourful peach, plum, camellia, not only dress up the culture square, but also enchants visitors.Translated by Sophia

News 2013-03-18 23:10 View：852

In Zhangjiajie Wulingyuan Tianzishan Mountain, Winter, with an altitude of 1000 meters, a lot of tourists will have a problem. Because of the low temperature, water tap not only can’t flush the toilet, but also can’t wash your hands. Wulingyuan scenic area core infrastructure project construction headquarters said,tianzishan mountain cableway station is going to build floor heating tourism toilet,to solve the problem effectively.In order to ensure enough water supply, they will also build a large underground reservoir during the construction of the toilet, and keep the water temperature above 0 ℃. The whole investment will about hundreds of thousands of yuan, it will be open to tourists before the “11″ golden week.The toilets in the tianzi mountain cableway station tourism will become zhangjiajie and even hunan first floor heating toilet.Translated by Sophia

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Ahead of the 2013 Spring Festival, travel agencies in Taiwan launched a tour program called "Explore Hunan", featuring China's first ancient commercial town Hongjiang, as well as other tourist spots like Zhangjiajie, Fenghuang, and Changde. The first tour group sent by Taiwan Hsi Hung Travel Agency on March 14 arrived at Hongjiang Ancient Commercial Town the next day on March 15.According to the tour guide, the eight-day Hunan tour program is extremely popular in Taiwan. The program, open every four days, has been already fully booked for the coming half month.The route for "Explore Hunan" starts and ends in Changsha. Along the way, tourists can successively tour the hometown of late Chairman Mao Zedong in Shaoshan, experience the archaic charm of ancient town in Ming and Qing dynasties at Hongjiang Ancient Commercial Town, see the country's most beautiful town Fenghuang, enjoy the fairyland on earth at the world natural heritage site Wulingyuan, fell the tranquility of a "retreat away from the world" at Changde’s Taohuayuan scenic area.Translator: Liu FenSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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Zhangjiajie spring is a mountain, is a green sea. Forest coverage rate of 97%, everywhere is full of precious ancient trees, let person have infinite thought.Zhangjiajie spring, is full of vibrant flowers. And even the pillar is full of green life, everywhere, all the voice of kingfisher with rich flavor of forest, immediately can make people feel relaxed, breathe easier. Special lobster flowers are in full bloom. Tianmen fog is a great beauty, but we can not all the time to see it. Warm spring, is the most frequent season of tianmen to see fog.Zhangjiajie spring, is a piece of transparent green. Entering into zhangjiajie, it seems to see a pair of quiet picture scroll.Zhangjiajie spring, is a peach garden of surprise.Translated by Sophiayuanjiajietianzi mountainwulingyuan(suoxiyu)over bridge in yuanjiajiebaofeng lakehuangshizhaitianmen mountain cave

News 2013-03-17 23:10 View：2549

It is acknowledged that from Mar. 18 of this year to the end of March in 2016,ZJJ Yellow Dragon Cave and Baofeng Lake are to implement new ticket price policy.The new ticket price in Yellow Dragon Cave and Baofeng Lake has adjusted as follow: ordinary ticket prices in Yellow Dragon Cave and Baofeng Lake are CNY100/person and CNY96/person while preferential prices are CNY60/person and CNY58/person. People who are able to enjoy preferential ticket price are juveniles, under 24-year-old students with full-time university bachelor degree and below, senior citizens with age between 60 and 70, enlisted men (military officers, nonmilitary personnel, and noncommissioned officer), retired army cadres, Martyr’s immediate family, people who hold Urban and Rural Residents’ Minimum Living Allowance Claim Tags issued by Civil Administration Department.In addition,children with height below 1.3 meters,soldiers in active service,the disabled and elderly over 70 are free to tour in Yellow Dragon Cave and Baofeng Lake.By Patricia

News 2013-03-17 23:08 View：2554

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

News 2013-03-17 23:06 View：1014