Ever since the establishment of Literature and Art Association for grey hairs in Shuangxing village, Luoxiyu town, Wulingyuan district, the elderly stopped killing time by playing card and tend to participate singing and dancing activities and rehearse. People gradually abandon boring life and start a brand-new and meaningful life.In order to rich villagers’ spiritual and cultural life and set up an atmosphere of civility and harmony, Shuangxing village have optimized the cultural square, established Association for the Aged and input 30 thousands yuan to organize the first circumference drum team and waist drum team composed by old people. Team members have come to more than 50 people and professionals have been employed to guide them.Apart from developing cultural activities for grey hairs, activities like selecting and appraising “Civilized Family”, “Excellent Daughter-in-law”, “Superstars Who Are Filial Piety to Parents and Care Children” are also hosted every year. In addition, “The Five-Star Level Health Households” will be chosen and awarded every quarter. These activities have in a great degree motivated villagers to participate in civilization establishment.By Brenda

News 2012-11-23 22:50 View：1276

In order to bring into full play of industrial and commercial functions, and to promote the tourism development in Wulingyuan District, the branch of Industrial and Commercial Bureau in Wulingyuan, since this year, has optimized further the service environment and service mode innovation, and minimized the admissions of starting an undertaking as well as stretched the business fields according to the law and through abundant means like online reserve service, delay service, key accounts follow-up service, face-to-face service and online instruction service, etc. based on the Measures to Boost Town-Wide Entrepreneurship which is with the orientation and strategy of increasing the total volume, expanding in scale, encouraging the advanced and obsolescing the laggard.Up to now, the total volume of Wulingyuan market body has reached 2,316 with a year-on-year increase of 23.26% of which individual business accounts for 1,983 growing by 24.72% comparing with that in the same period of last year. The newly-emerged market body makes up 416 up by 17.84% against the same period of last year.Translated by Vincent Chou

News 2012-11-23 22:43 View：1309

From August 13th, to November 12th, implementation of wulingyuan substation time-sharing appointed mechanism after three months of operation examination, achieved significant results. Time-sharing appointed system not only alleviated the long queues difficult problem, but also conducived to guide and tourists reasonably to arrange visiting time, improving the quality of tour.During the operation, after asking opinions and the suggestion from the guests, with the combination of line up experience and field observation evaluation from Sun Yat-sen university institute of tourism, the results showed that: the implementation of “travel agency team substation time-sharing appointed” mechanism, average queue time of taking ropeway or elevator ascending shortened 1.5 hours. The increase of consumption time in the secondary scenic spot, entertainment and shopping place, improved the tourism experience. Thus relieving work intensity of line service , reducing the security pressure.Translated by Sophia

News 2012-11-22 22:37 View：1217

On November 17, the application jointly submitted by six counties in three provinces (Suining County and Tongdao County in Hunan Province, Sanjiang County in Guangxi Province, and Liping County, Rongjiang County, and Rongjiang County in Guizhou Province) passed official review, allowing the counties' Dong minority villages to be successfully included in the latest China's World Cultural Heritage Tentative List.Of  the six counties, Suining County is the central birthplace of the Dong ethnic group's long-standing culture. The Dong have created numerous villages, ancient building complexes, drum towers and flower bridges in this area, and it is one of the places where Dong culture has been best preserved and protected.Original Dong culture has been preserved in areas such as Suining, Sanjiang, Liping and Tongdao. Suining, Sanjiang in Guangxi, Liping in Guizhou, and Daotong of Huaihua City have been linked by mountains and rivers since ancient times. They share a common history, a close cultural heritage, and have similar folk-customs.Shangbao Dong Village in SuiningDatuan Dong Village in SuiningDong people in SuiningTranslator: He Yao Source: Hunan Official Web Portal

News 2012-11-22 22:32 View：2322

According to the news of November 21 from Eisenstaedt, capital of Burgenland in Austria, the modern folk paintings of Mayang Miao Autonomous County in Huaihua City, Hunan Province, were well received at the Sino-Austria Exhibition of Culture and Art Industry, attracting over 10, 000 visitors since November 8. With local characteristics and elegant colors, these 40 exhibited paintings vividly depicted the new life in villages of the last 30 years since the Reform and Opening Up policy, creating a unique artistic style. The Austria-China Friendship Association selected seven out of the works for a national art exhibition in Austria in 2014. Translator: Li Xuan Source: Hunan Official Web Portal

News 2012-11-22 22:28 View：1028

A few days ago, Zhangjiajie committee specially unveiled new policies, in order to back the unique tourism projects——Xibu Street. They aimed at making its feature lives up to the name.According to ZJJ Tourism Committee’s opinions, ZJJ Tourism Association will guide the overall construction of Xibu Street, and actively strengthen its cooperation with other tourism enterprises. At the same time, government of Wulingyuan District will also try to contribute more to support Xibu Street, improving their services and offering supporting policies, so that a better developing environment will be presented for all the enterprises.Translated by Becky

News 2012-11-21 01:55 View：1189

In order to inherit excellent tujia culture, to create a zhangjiajie tujia folk culture tourism brand, marketing winter of zhangjiajie, from nov. 30th, to dec. 2rd, a big “tujia daughter meeting” blind date activity —– “2012 the first zhangjiajie tujia daughter meeting will be held in Xibu street of WuLingYuan.The blind date activity is full of national regional characteristic opening ceremony, tujia block door marriage customs performance, antiphonal love song, love flowers, matchmaker pairing, Xibu street taobao love, bonfire party, etc. These activities aim at deducing how the industrious and kind-hearted tujia people to fall in love with each other, with rich tujia folk customs.As we have learned, “daughter meeting” originally is the tujia young men and women gather together for love, which has been 300 years history. It is known as “the long history of the oriental valentine’s day”.Translated by Sophia

News 2012-11-20 01:57 View：1166

On November 16th, the first national services standardization pilot unit zhangjiajie — zhangjiajie Tianmen mountain tourism co., LTD. (hereinafter referred as the tianmen mountain company), with travel service standardization pilot work, thus winning 92 scores to pass through evaluation expert groups′s assessment acceptance of the national standardization management committee. This is the first unit of province tourism industry which passed through the assessment acceptance of the national services standardization.Expert groups, in accordance with the overall objective, pragmatic and fair evaluation principle, through listenning to the report, checking materials, on-site inspection, tourist satisfaction survey, a staff forums and other methods to overall evaluated the standardization of the tianmen mountain company pilot work, and its performance shall be fully affirmed.In the future, the tianmen mountain scenic spot will be in accordance with the tourism service standardization construction requirements, continuous improvement, and constantly improving the standard system, and striving to become the province and even the whole country tourism service industry model.Translated by Sophia

News 2012-11-20 01:56 View：1090