After sixteen days of fierce competition, the 14th FINA World Championships in Shanghai dropped its curtain on July 31.Five Hunan athletes took part in this competition, marking the largest number of Hunan players during the recent FINA World Championships. They harvested considerable success during the games, winning three silver medals and two bronze ones.Particularly, Sun Wenyan won two silver medals and one bronze medal in three synchronized swimming competitions. He Min won the silver medal in men's one-meter springboard diving. Li Xuanxu broke the Asian record of the women's 1500-meter freestyle swimming, winning the bronze medal with 15 minutes 58 seconds and 2 milliseconds. In addition, Tan Feihu, as main force of Chinese men's water polo team, helped the team win the No. 15 place in the game.On the last day of the competition, young contestant Li Xuanxu ranked No.6 in women's 400-meter individual medley and Huang Chaosheng who made his debut in the FINA ranked No. 4 in men's 400-meter individual medley competition.Translator: Hao JingruSource: Hunan Official Web

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According to the press conference on “2011 Red Bull Wing-suit Flying through Tianmen Hole Activity”, the most outstanding wing-suit flyers across the world will meet in Tianmen Mountain on Sept.24, presenting the most thrilling and difficult extreme sports in China. The world-renowned adventurer Jeb Corliss will perform the stunt of flying through Tianmen Hole with wing-suit.American Jeb Corliss (born in 1976) is a professional BASE jumper, skydiver, and wing-suit flyer. He has jumped from sites including Paris' Eiffel Tower, Seattle's Space Needle, Angle Falls, and the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and so on. He was once invited to take part in the International Base Jumping Festival held in Shanghai. This time he will take the risk of flying through Tianmen Hole with wing-suit.Wing-suit flying is the sport of flying the human body through the air using a special jumpsuit, called a wing-suit, which adds surface area to the human body to enable a significant increase in lift. It is the most difficult and dangerous extreme sports in the world.In addition to Jeb Corliss, 9 super humans on man-made wings including Italian Roberta Mancino, Finnish Iiro Seppänen will jump from Tianmen cable cars, pathway on the cliffs, and out of a helicopter, flying through precipices and canyons. The distance between these starting points and the bottom of valley is 300-400 meters, with the highest 700 meters. The landform of Tianmen Mountain is very complicated with changeable weather. “Flying through Tianmen Hole with wing-suit will be the most challenging and dangerous experience for me.” Jeb Corliss said.Translator: Mao YipanSource: Zhangjiajie Official Web 

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On the afternoon of July 28, the Exhibition Game of Mark Williams, who has been ranked the world number-one snooker player, was held in Zhangjiajie Sunshine Hotel. Feng Xiangjiang, head of Hunan Provincial Billiards Association, Liu Shuha, Zhangjiajie vice mayor, and over 200 fans watched the wonderful competition between Mark Williams and Zhao Xintong, who is called “the future star of China’s snooker”. Other three snooker fans from Zhangjiajie city also played snooker with Mark Williams, which has won great applauses.Mark Williams is going to hit the ballThe 36-year-old Mark Williams, who has earned the nickname “the Welsh Potting Machine and Golden Left Hand”, is noted is for his single-ball potting. He is the first left-handed winner at the World Snooker Championship and won first ranking event of 2011, the German Masters. The 14-year-old Chinese Zhao Xintong, who is regarded as the “Golden Left Hand” in China, once scored 143 points to win a single pole.Wonderful match between Mark Williams and Zhao Xintong A  Zhangjiajie fan played snooker with Mark Williams The exhibition game is aimed at introducing high-end international sports to Zhangjiajie so at to promote the development of sports and leisure tourism here.Translator: Mao YipanSource: Zhangjiajie Official Web

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According to a press conference held on July 26, Zhangjiajie has been authorized as one leg of 2011 Asian Beach Volleyball Tour in China. The event will be ceremoniously held here from Sept.29 to Oct.4. Liu Shuhua, Zhangjiajie Vice Mayor, and Han Wei, a leader from Asian Volleyball Confederation, and other officials attended the conference.The event is undertaken by Asian Volleyball Confederation, Volleyball Management Center of the General Administration of Sports of China, Hunan Provincial Sports Administration, and Zhangjiajie Municipal Sports Bureau. In this September, the most excellent athletes of 50 teams from 20 countries such as China, China Taipei, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Australia, and India will participate in fierce competition with their best skills in Zhangjiajie, which will be a joyful and exciting experience for Zhangjiajie citizens and tourists from home and abroad.This is the first time for Zhangjiajie to host the beach volleyball competition. On the one hand, the Asian beach volleyball tour will bring the unrivalled natural beauty and unique folk flavor of Zhangjiajie into full paly, which can boost its reputation and further promote its tourism development. On the other hand, after hosting the game for five consecutive years, Zhangjiajie can build an international volleyball grand event in accordance with its city feature, with the characteristics of volleyball sport including “fashion, Sunshine and Passion”, which can push forward the development of China’s beach volleyball sportTranslator: Mao YipanSource: Zhangjiajie Official Web

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On the afternoon of July 25, the mass selection for challengers who will participate in the snooker exhibition match with Mark Williams ended in Zhangjiajie Minmin Billiard Club. This activity is hosted by Zhangjiajie Municipal Tourism and Sports Bureaus.It is said that the final three challengers, who were selected from 92 snooker fans, will take part in the activity titled “ Mark Williams’ first China tour after he ranked the world number-one snooker player ” that is scheduled to be held at Zhangjiajie Sunshine Hotel on July 28. They will play snooker with Mark Williams there, presenting an exciting snooker exhibition match in beautiful Zhangjiajie. Translator: Mao YipanSource: Zhangjiajie Official Web

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Recently, camera crew from Far-off Home of CCTV Chinese International Channel visits Tianmen Mountain for filming natural wonders, historical and cultural sites and leisure features there. This shooting will make a 45-minute feature program about the mountain that is scheduled to be broadcast on CCTV 4 in July, 2011. The host and photographer are at work in Guigu Pathway During the filming process, the camera crew was overwhelmed by magnificent and precipitous Karst landform, amazing clouds sea, and human wonders like Guigu Pathway (pathway on the cliffs) and Tianmen cable cars. The Photographer is filming Karst landform of Tianmen Mountain According to director, this program will represent Tianmen Mountain as a unique and grand world geological park to people from around the world. Far-off Home is a high-end tourism program introducing China’s natural beauty and folk custom to overseas audiences, which will be shown on 23:26 from Monday to Friday weekly. It will also be aired through Asian, American and European Channels.The host is interviewing a tourist from Thailand. She said that she is stunned by fantastic landscape of Tianmen Mountain and other scenic spots of Zhangjiajie.Translator: Mao YipanSource: Zhangjiajie Official Web 

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The working conference on Yuelu Mountain Scenic Area's declaring National 5A Tourist Attraction was held on July 22 in Changsha. 5A (AAAAA) is the top class in the normative grading system for quality standardization and evaluation of tourist attractions (areas/spots) in China.Changsha Mayor Zhang Jianfei stressed that Yuelu Mountain Scenic Area, the name card of Changsha City, is a key venue for leisure, tourism and patriotism education. Declaring National 5A Tourist Attraction is a hard task to be carried out within a limited time and under a strict requirement of high quality.Concerned department should take this opportunity to upgrade the hardware and software environment in this area, ensuring a sound implementation of the renovation suggestions from Hunan Provincial Tourism Bureau. Projects and index that fall below a certain level must fulfill the plan by the end of July.It is revealed that Yuelu Mountain Scenic Area will take Yuelu Mountain, Orange Isle, Yuelu Academy, and Xinmin Institute as a whole to create and declare a national 5A-level tourist attraction.The preparation has now entered the sprint stages, striving to receive the assessment from China National Tourism Administration in August and realize the promotion within this year.Vice Mayor Chen Xianchun attended the conference.Translator: Liu FenSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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Changsha, July 21 (Xinhua) -- The second phase of a restoration project for an ancient village in central China's Hunan Province is expected to be completed in 2012.The first phase of the project was finished in 2010, in the village of Yutou Dong in the province's Tongdao Dong Autonomous County, while the second phase of the project is currently under way. A road and parts of several buildings in the village will be restored by the end of this year, according to Yang Shaoyong, head of the county's cultural relic management department.Architectural styles dating back to the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties have been well-preserved in the village. However, many of the structures in the village are dilapidated and will likely collapse, according to the archaeologists.The village was built between the years of 1368 and 1398, according to the archaeologists. There are currently 182 ethnic Dong families living in the village.Source: English.xinhuanet.com

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