2011 Zhangjiajie International Country Music Week is to unveil its curtain in Yellow Dragon Cave Square on September, 10. At that time, people will enjoy a grand carnival of country music in the picturesque Zhangjiajie.According to Ye Wenzhi, general planner of Zhangjiajie International Country Music Week, efforts will be made to develop the music week into regular music festival and foster Zhangjiajie into an international brand as well as a holy land of country music after holding three to five music weeks.The six-day music week this year aims to display and exchange country music across the whole world, and promote the development of national cultures. At present, thirty-one overseas bands consisting of 392 musicians from twenty-six countries and regions have been identified, while the list of eight domestic bands of the minority nationality is still up in the air.

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On the afternoon of Sept.10, 2011 China International Country Music Festival kicked off in the Ecological Square of Yellow Dragon Cave, Zhangjiajie.The festival will be closed on Sept.16. During this week, country music artists from 28 countries will give 55 wonderful performances to audience in Tianmen Mountain, Tianzi Mountain (Emperor Mountain), Baofeng Lake, Xibu Street, Forest Park, and Yellow Dragon Cave .The closing ceremony of the festival will be held in the Hallelujah Concert of Yellow Dragon Cave. At that time, the “Golden Stone Prize” of country music will be awarded to the bands. As the largest country music festival in Asia, China International Country Music Festival is based in Zhangjiajie, which will be held every two years. The first festival launched in 2009 was regarded as “a successful practice of improving China's image by using cultural soft power”. The 2011 country music festival will exert more influence in the world. Nashville of the United States, the birthplace of country music, is willing to be a sister city of Zhangjiajie so as to spread and develop the world's country music together.Translator: Mao YipanSource: Zhangjiajie Official Web

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At 14 o'clock on September 10, 2011 China Zhangjiajie International Country Music Festival opening ceremony in Wulingyuan Huanglong scenic square  was held. In this International Country Music Week,32 foreign bands, from the United States, Canada, Brazil, France, Egypt, Russia, South Korea, Japan, Italy, South Africa, Australia, Uzbekistan, Georgia, Kuwait and other 27 countries.There are four first-class groups to participate in this event, they are from the USA (the birthplace of country music)  

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On the afternoon of September 6, Zhangjiajie's Tianmen Mountain Scenic Area is ranked as 5A-class tourist attractions by the National Commission on Rating the Quality of Tourist Attractions.There are other scenic spots Yueyang's Junshan Islet and Xiangtan's Shaoshan in Hunan Province.Translator: SHUIRESource: Zhangjiajie Official Web

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From Sept.3 to 4, 4 staff from Happy Chinese program of CCTV4 inspected Zhangjiajie. The camera crew will visit Zhangjiajie again to shoot a travel program during the upcoming International Country Music Week. The program will be broadcast in Asian, American, and European versions to audience around the globe.Happy Chinese is a special TV show promoting Chinese language and culture, lasting 15 minutes. From May 31, 2010, Happy Chinese taught the practical Chinese in touring around China to audience.During the inspection tour, the camera crew visited Yellow Dragon Cave, Baofeng Lake, Emperor Mountain (Tianzi Mountain), Yuanjiajie, Golden Whip Stream, Huangshizhai, Tujia Folk Custom Park, and so on. They were not only interested in natural scenery but also the cultural phenomena including Hand-Waving Dance of Tujia people, Chinese giant salamanders, and the guardian for the clouds of Tianzi Mountain.Producer of Happy Chinese Wang Feng said that all staff have gained a lot from this trip. And he believed that Zhangjiajie’s natural beauty and colorful folk custom will be fully presented through Happy Chinese, which can further promote Chinese to foreigners and attract them to Zhangjiajie.Translator: Mao YipanSource: Zhangjiajie Official Web

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BEIJING, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) -- About 300 million Chinese are expected to travel during the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holidays this year, according to a report released Monday.The number represents an increase of 20 percent from a year earlier, according to the report by the China Tourism Academy and CTrip.com, the country's leading online travel service enterprise.Travelers are projected to spend 145 billion yuan (22.7 billion U.S. dollars)， or 25 percent more than a year earlier, on domestic travel during the mid-autumn holiday, which lasts from Sept. 10 to 12, as well as the week-long National Day holidays that begin on Oct. 1.During the upcoming holidays, travelers will mainly flock to attractions in the cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Xi'an and Chengdu, according to the report.Meanwhile, 2.2 million are expected to head overseas to popular tourism destinations such as the Maldives, Thailand's Phuket Island, Indonesia's Bali Island, Hong Kong, and South Korea.They will spend about 2.1 billion U.S. dollars on international travel, said the report.Source: Xinhua

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MANILA, Sept. 3 (Xinhua) -- Philippine President Benigno Aquino III returned to Manila Saturday evening from a five-day state visit to China.Aquino, who arrived at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport, reported what he had accomplished from his visit to China, including the multi-billion dollars investments that could come in the country from Chinese investors.He also cited the agreements signed with China. These included agreements on trade, economic and technical cooperation, media, tourism and sports.Aquino had a bilateral meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao where they discussed how to further bilateral relations. He also met with other top Chinese government officials as well as businessmen.Aside from Beijing, Aquino also visited Shanghai and Xiamen.Source: Xinhua

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Golden Toad Biting the MoonAccording to a journalist, in the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival, “Air Sisters” of Zhangjiajie will hold a ceremony to worship the moon in Baofeng Lake, praying for a prosperous and harmonious country.It is reported that “Air Sisters” are several girls of Zhangjiajie Tujia ethnic group chosen by network mass-selection. They once took part in the shooting for a VCR travel publicity film titled Breathing Zhangjiajie that was showed on Zhangjiajie City Day in Shanghai World Exposition. Zhangjiajie Air SistersThe custom of worshipping the moon can be traced back to the Tang and Song dynasties. Worshipping the moon is the privilege of women, who can make several wishes to the moon and pray for the protection from it.Baofeng Lake is regarded as the “the Jade Pool on Earth”and “the Holy Lake in the Air”. During every Mid-Autumn Festival, a full moon and the mountains in the lake will constitute a wonderful sight called “Golden Toad Biting the Moon”.Translator: Mao YipanSource: Zhangjiajie Official Web

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