To celebrate the upcoming Children's Day, the 2nd Singapore International Chinese Arts Festival Awards Presentation Ceremony for Hunan Region themed with "Following Communist Party of China and Growing up Happily" was held in Changsha on the morning of May 28. More than 300 children joined in the gala and enthusiastically showed their talent. The activity has been jointly hosted by the Hunan Provincial Women and Children Activity Center and the Organizing Committee of the 2nd Singapore International Chinese Arts Festival. It aims to establish a platform for the happy growth of children and arouse people's concern of the development of the work related to children. It is said that the International Chinese Arts Festival provides a favorable opportunity for Chinese artists and young music lovers around the world to exchange their ideas and learn from each other. Nine contestants chosen from Hunan province have achieved outstanding results with 4 golds, 2 silvers and 3 bronzes in the Youth Piano Competition of the 2nd Singapore International Chinese Art Festival.Translator: Xie LingliSource: Hunan Official Web Portal 

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Organized by the Changsha Municipal People's Government and sponsored by the Changsha Municipal Tourism Bureau, the 5th Changsha Eco-Cultural Tourism Festival unveiled the curtain at Qianlonghu Ecological Holiday Villa on May 28. May 28 is designated as "Changsha Rural Tourism Day" henceforth. Travelling and entertaining in cities while eating and leisuring in the countryside, the urban residents could feast themselves with equally good services at rural happy farmhouses and get closer with nature. This is also the first rural tourism day nationwide. Data from the tourism bureau showed that the tourists received in Changsha rural tourism market last year amounted to 21.985 million, making an income of 3.58 billion yuan. The rural tourism booms at festivals and holidays with the tourist reception at all farmhouses seeing a new high.Translator: Zhou QiongSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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May 24, Zhangjiajie Mayor Zhao Xiaoming met with Canadian Whistler Mayor Conser Marand. The two sides exchanged experiences on environmental protection and tourism market development and so on.Whistler City, about 125 km north of Vancouver's Pacific Coast mountains, is famous for skiing and cycling Hill Road, is an internationally renowned resort, every year more than 200 million visitorsZhao Xiaoming Conservancy Marand a brief introduction to the basic situation of Zhangjiajie, he said: Zhangjiajie is the most attractive natural scenery, its world-class tourism resources.Finally, environmental protection and tourism development on the two sides had a friendly exchange of experience.Conser Marand praised the beauty of Zhangjiajie, tourism infrastructure is also very complete. He hoped the two sides in tourism, education, a more substantive cooperation in the future. 

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Five American experts responsible for 2011 Sino-America Librarian Exchange Project arrived at Hunan University Library for an investigation tour on May 21. The delegation was headed by Professor Chen Tongli, chief librarian of the Asian Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.Zhen Zhangfei, head of Hunan University Library briefed about library's characteristic services including the opening hours, resource sharing and online reading.The visiting guests highly appreciated the achievements of the Library and the two sides held an in-depth discussion on the role of library in students' campus life.Both sides agreed that, libraries should be upgraded regularly to help people pursue lifelong learning while keeping up with the pace of social development.It was revealed that such an exchange project is the first cooperation project between the two countries' libraries initiated by the government.Translator: Guo YanSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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Executives from over one hundred enterprises in Wangcheng Economic Development Zone of Changsha City gathered a few days ago to witness the official opening of Shengtong International Business Center, China's first club-style hotel. The center now features an international multi-function banquet hall that can hold 1000 people, 200 guestrooms with various styles, exclusive zones and floors, and fitness and recreation center. Membership and theme events will soon be available. It is expected to become the club headquarters of China General Chamber of Commerce and the first demonstrative club-style hotel in the counstry, thus to start a new hotel operation style in Changsha.Translator: Liu FenSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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Highway (Zhangjiajie to Phoenix Ancient Town), which is actively building, the construction of Lishui River Bridge with rockets, this is the first case in Hunan Province,It is also a major technological innovation in China's bridge construction.Lishui Bridge Plan completed by the end of 2012. Then, From Zhangjiajie to fenghuang, the journey time will be significantly reduced. Along the beautiful natural scenery, will give visitors a sense of comfort.

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May 19, is the first "China Tourism Day ", organized large-scale celebration of Zhangjiajie City, thousands of tourists come together, in Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, Zhangjiajie scenic spot of the monkeys not only watch the show, also played on the "China Tourism Day "advocate. Some of them are jump to the "China Tourism Day"promotion board, some holding banners, all of them avid. The following pictures from the Internet. 

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May 19, Zhangjiajie Municipal Tourism Commission, Zhangjiajie Tourism Bureau, Yongding District Government, Wulingyuan District Government, Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, Huangshizhai, Bai Long Elevator,Tianmenshan, Huanglong Cave, and Baofeng lake jointly organized the first "China Tourism Day "celebrations in Zhangjiajie National Forest Park entrance. The tourists and Zhangjiajie public, some more than a thousand people attended this event.

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