On 13th December, 2012, the ceremony of signing the low-speed maglev train transportation program as well as the JVA(joint invest agreement) of Zhangjiajie Magnetic Levitation Transportation Co. Ltd. was held. Mr. Hujun Qiang, the Zhangjiajie Municipal Party Secretary, and Mr. Zhou Qinghe, the CEO and the general manager of Nan Che Zhu Zhou Electrical Locomotive Co. Ltd., and Mr. Liu Yuegao, a member of the Municipal Standing Committee and the vice Mayor of Zhangjiajie City, Mr. Luo Jinming, the vice director of the Standing Committee of Municipal People’s Congress, and Mr. Liu Dexiang, the vice president of the MPCC (Municipal People’s Consultative Conference), attended the ceremony.Accordingly the starting point of the maglev train line is planned to be the West Railway Station of Zhangjiajie while the end the symbolic gate of Wulingyuan Scenic Spot. The whole line, 24 kilometers in length, has an investment of 500 million yuan. This line will take the transportation from the center of Zhangjiajie to the core scenic spot of Wulinguan Resort after construction as a model combining the low-speed maglev transportation and the regional natural resources. All of this is a practical step that the first low-speed maglev train line in China will be successfully set in Zhangjiajie with a mile-stone-like significance.Translated by Vincent Chou

News 2012-12-18 22:56 View：1851

The work conference on application of world cultural heritage of Hunan Province was held in Changsha on the morning of December 17. Laosi Town, regional defense system in Fenghuang and villages of the Dong people were included in the World Cultural Heritage Tentative List. At the meeting, the local governments of the three cultural relics were conferred the plates by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage (SACH). Meanwhile, they submitted target responsibility documents to Hunan Provincial People's Government and proposed measures to protect, regulate and manage these cultural relics, which laid a solid foundation for applying for World Cultural Heritage. Located in Sicheng Village of Lingxi Town in Yongshun County, Laosi Town is an ancient town governed by hereditary headmen of the Tujia ethnic group in west Hunan for over 800 years. Laosi Town, the most typical ancient cultural relic in minority nationality regions of southern China, offers precious materials for the study on the history of Tujia nationality, Chinese Tusi System (a special political system that China's ancient feudal dynasties applied to rule people in the ethnic group regions by granting hereditary titles to local leaders) and system of regional ethnic autonomy. Located in the hinterland of Wuling Mountains and known as the most beautiful county in China, Fenghuang County is an area mainly inhabited by the Miao ethnic group. Composed of Fenghuang ancient town, Chinese southern great wall and Huangsiqiao ancient town, the defense system in Fenghuang is one of the largest, best preserved and the most full-featured military sites in Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) and Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) in southern China. Translator: Xiao JuanSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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On December 16th, zhangjiajie in order to celebrate the the breakthrough of jingguang high rail-way, launching a free trip “cake” : everyone takes jingguang high rail-way to visit zhangjiajie in 26th, they can enjoy zhangjiajie a scenic spot and a free hotel reception.Free reception spot is zhangjiajie grand canyon, the national 4A level scenic spot, near the world natural heritage wulingyuan huanglong hole. In 2013, it proposed to build the world’s longest glass bridge, now ticket price is 118 yuan/person. The scenic area officials says, December 26th, the opening day of jingguang high rail-way is Mao zedong’s 119th birthday, being worth of the whole country to celebrate. In 26th to 28th, the guests who taking jingguang high rail-way to zhangjiajie, just by high rail-way ticket and identity card freely into the grand canyon scenic spot.Free reception hotel is GuanShanYue hotel, located in the wulingyuan Xibu street. It is the first zhangjiajie romantic resort hotel, at the same time, receiving 34 couple lovers.The personage inside the tourism said that as the world’s longest mileage operation high iron – jingguang high iron was in full operation, the scenic spot will usher in a new development opportunity, hunan zhangjiajie tourism will formally enter into “high iron” era.Translated by Sophia

News 2012-12-17 22:59 View：1180

In the morning of 12th December, 2012, the coldness of the severe winter surrendered to the passion of all the teachers and students from Zhangjiajie College of Jishou University. The celebration of the establishment of the municipal library association as well as the opening ceremony of Zhangjiajie College Library was officially undertaking on the square in font of the library.The establishment of the municipal library association is a pleasing thing for Zhangjiajie city’s cultural construction, and also has important significance for building the public cultural service system, promoting the city-wide reading, motivating the innovation and heritage of knowledge, boosting the city dwellers’ quality and establishing a model of insist-on-learning society. Moreover the establishment of the library also started to bring beauty to the spiritual and cultural construction for all the college students here and even the local residents.Translated by Vincent Chou

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On December 12th, 2012 international China media awards was judged by the overseas Chinese media cooperation organization. Zhangjiajie, with its magic charm of natural scenery, profound cultural foundation, the world famous tourist destination , won the award of “Top Ten Livable Place in China”.Other 9 places which got the award of “China top ten livable” are hangzhou, Qingdao, chengdu, dalian, Dali, suzhou, xiamen, lijiang, guangzhou. Zhangjiajie in the eighth of the ten best livable placesTranslated by Sophia

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Soon, visitors will have the chance to experience the maglev train once they get out of the west train station in Zhangjiajie. This maglev train will have a max traveling speed of about 120 kilometers per hour, and can take 402 passengers at one time. When it starts to operate in the near future, a visitor is allowed to get Wulingyuan directly in 12 minutes, which will save much more time, comparing with the initial one-hour range of drive by bus in the same line.In April, 2011, Zhangjiajie has already witnessed this exciting moment when Zhangjiajie government signed a cooperation intention document with CSR Corporation Limited in Changsha. They planned to build the first Chinese medium-low speed maglev train operating line in Zhangjiajie. When completed, this line will shoulder visitors’ transportation from the center of Zhangjiajie Cityto Wulingyuan core scenic spot.Translated by Becky

News 2012-12-16 22:57 View：1113

Altogether 5,467 entry-exit flights (ships) had been checked in Hunan with 800,575 passengers in total by December 13, 2012, setting a new record again.Hunan Border Defense Contingent innovates the service mode, improves the supporting services, and optimizes the customs clearance efficiency to bring the demonstration effect of Changsha Border Inspection Station into a full play. It cooperates with the customs, the inspection and quarantine bureaus, the safety Inspection and the international chheck-in units to conduct the "Comfortable and Convenient Project" to provide one-stop service. It also organizes the Lei Feng female service team of border inspection and the border inspection mobile workstation, provides "border inspection consulting service" for foreign-related enterprises, holds regular symposiums for airlines and travel agencies, launches the law popularizing service, standardizes the operation and simplifies customs procedures to realize the convenient customs clearance with high-efficiency, provides the loving service for the elderly, infirm, sick, disabled and pregnant, and offers courteous reception and convenience for major and special events in Hunan.Translator: Zhang ShuSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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On 12th Dec. Afternoon, a meeting on tourism gourmet festival during 2012 Chinese New Year was convoked by ZJJ Tourism Bureau. Attendants were representatives from some ZJJ hotels, ZJJ tourism and cuisine association.In the meeting, manuals of “Advices on Tourism Gourmet Festival in 2013 Spring Festival” were handed out by ZJJ Tourism Bureau and detailed issues on this activity were discussed over the meeting.The activity is known as a large-scale commercial celebration for boosting cultural tourism whose theme is cultural tourism of gourmet. It is to start from December 15, 2012 to March 15, 2013, which will last for 3 months. This activity will create an atmosphere of joyous, peace and happiness and will definitely absorb more tourist to ZJJ in winter.Previous Food Festival in ZJJBy Brenda

News 2012-12-15 22:54 View：1721