Various theme activities were held across Hunan's provincial capital Changsha to mark China's 6th Cultural Heritage Day falling on June 11, 2011.It is the first Cultural Heritage Day celebrated in the country after the passage of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Law of the People's Republic of China (Hereinafter referred to as the ICH Law) on June 1 this year.Hunan Provincial Department of Culture commenced a series of intangible cultural heritage exhibitions, performances and promotion activities across the province to publicize the law.According to the preliminary statistics, 158 promotion activities have been carried out in Hunan to celebrate the Cultural Heritage Day, involving a participation of 1.7762 million people.Promotion booths were set up in Changsha City to distribute the ICH Law and relevant publicity materials.In addition, a special symposium on Intangible Cultural Heritages in Hunan was well received by the public.Translator: Liu FenSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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Good rain knows the time, the Dragon Boat Festival for three consecutive days of rain, not only greatly eased the drought in southern China appeared,and also to bring clouds Zhangjiajie scenic spot. June 7 morning, after the rain, sunny,Zhangjiajie scenic spot the white clouds will Tianzishan "Zhangjiajie Landscape " behave like Wonderland general.Many tourists and photographers take the ropeway up the mountain early to watch and photograph this rare natural beauty.Originally peaks such as bonsai general landscape, Wulingyuan more Penglai fairyland in the clouds.  

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One of the world’s top directors, a sci-fi aficionado–James Cameron–has been tipped to become the first tourist to take a trip to the Moon.The man behind the two highest-grossing blockbusters in history, Avatar and Titanic, has reportedly purchased a $150 million ticket from Space Adventures, a US company organizing exclusive trips to the International Space Station. Only two seats on board the flight of the Russian Soyuz spacecraft are reportedly up for grabs, with the highly-anticipated flight scheduled to take place in 2015. Canadian-born Cameron has been dreaming of space for years. Back in 2000 he had reportedly passed a number of medical exams to get fit for a historic flight to Russia’s landmark Mir space station. Needless to say, the trailblazing Hollywood director was planning to go on the space mission with his camera. He has maintained friendly and professional ties with the team of Mir scientists since 1997, when the experienced Russian explorers were involved in shooting of Titanic.

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June 8, Zhangjiajie City, Mayor Zhao Xiaoming on the U.S. "Avatar" a sequel film is scheduled to meet Chinese-American Emma Li and Charlie Wang.The film production process for several years, the United States "Avatar" movie with a lot of beautiful scenery elements of Zhangjiajie, Zhangjiajie and knowledge. "Avatar" also failed to notify over Zhangjiajie. Today, more than the event last year, according to several U.S. sources said that the director wanted to make Cameron "Avatar" sequel. Chinese-American Miss Emma Li and Mr. Charlie Wang now lives in Boston, is mainly engaged in international arts and cultural international exchange activities. They said that in March 2010 (China on "Avatar" the argument of the day), they have been with the U.S. film "Avatar," director in charge of the office have had two in-depth nature, serious discussion.During the meeting, Miss Emma Li and Mr. Charlie Wang repeatedly to elaborate on their role as a bridge, and want to get Authorized agent on this matter of Zhangjiajie Government. Zhao Xiaoming said: This is done by Zhangjiajie Municipal Tourism Association and the first non-official authorized to access. Finally, the two sides to expand Zhangjiajie tourism market in the eastern United States, for the communication and exchange of views.

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President of the French Chamber of Commerce and Industry in China (CCIFC) Gan Anyi headed a delegation for Hunan on June 8 at the invitation of China Council for the Promotion of International Trade Hunan Sub-council and China Chamber of International Commerce Hunan Sub-chamber.During their stay, their part signed a cooperation agreement with China Chamber of International Commerce Hunan Sub-chamber with the witness of Vice Director of the Standing Committee of Hunan Provincial People's Congress Chen Shuhong.Established in 1992, the organization is one of the largest and most robust overseas chambers of commerce and industry in China, which has more than 1,200 member companies.According to the agreement, the two sides are planning to hold regular economic and trade exchanges in hope of enhancing the communication and cooperation in areas of machinery and equipment, automobile, electronic information, agriculture, new energy, bio-pharmaceutical and environment protection.Vice Director Chen welcomed the delegation coming from afar. And he expected the two sides to propel mutual exchanges and cooperation in such fields as economy and trade, science and technology, education and environment protection by taking advantage of this opportunity.Translator: Xie JingjingSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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Recently, from the Hunan Provincial Communications Department received the latest news. Zhangjiajie to Sangzhi highway construction, was the first priority in Hunan Province in 2011 included the construction of the project implementation plan; Anhua to Cili highway construction, are included in the first implementation of the 2012 Hunan Province, the construction project. In the near future, the completion of the two highways, the traffic would bring great Zhangjiajie Tourism convenient!

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Zhou Qiang, secretary of the CPC Hunan Provincial Committee presided over the conference of the Standing Committee of the CPC Hunan Provincial Committee on the morning of June 7.At the meeting, participants contemplated the speeches and instructions given by the CPPCC National Committee Chairman Jia Qinglin during his tour in Hunan.China's top political advisor Jia once visited Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Zhangjiajie and other places from May 31 to June 4 to make investigations about pushing forward poverty relief and economic and social development in Wulin Mountain area.In order to achieve the goal, up-to-date measures should be taken to alleviate poverty in the concentrated destitute areas, as conveyed at the meeting.The meeting also urged that efforts should be given to economic development with local characteristics and full play be given to abundant natural resources.It called for strong culture and tourism development and creation of a batch of competitive companies and distinctive industries.Based on regional advantages, natural resources and existing industrial development, efforts should be stepped up to adjust the industrial structure so as to shape the unique industrial system, laying down solid foundation for local people to shake off poverty and attain prosperity.Governor of Hunan Province Xu Shousheng and Chairman of the CPPCC Hunan Provincial Committee Hu Biao also attended the event.Source: Hunan Official Web Portal

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According to Shao Qiwei, director of the National Tourism Administration, agritainment, originating from Chendu, capital of Sichuan Province, has gained prosperity in Changsha. Changsha has even been commended by Central Media as the hottest city  nationwide for agritainment.With the rise and rapid development of agritainment, the rural tourism in Changsha has gradually upgraded into an industry.At present, there are more than 1,600 farmer's houses in the city. A rural tourism industrial cluster has been progressively shaped connecting Changsha County, Kaifu District of Changsha City, Wangcheng County and Liuyang County. Moreover, a rural tourism industrial circle has been formed within 30 kilometers of Changsha, in which the economy, society and ecological efficiency realize balanced development, according to the statistics retrieved from Changsha Tourism Bereau.This Data also showed that the total revenue brought by rural tourism industry amounted to 3.58 billion yuan last year, leading to the increase of 640 million yuan to farmers' income.Translator: Chen YuSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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