The International Bamboo & Silk Calligraphy Invitation Exhibition themed on "Bamboo & Silk Writing Sparkles Dongting Lake" was unveiled on the afternoon of March 25 at  Changsha Bamboo Slips Museum. 150 odd calligraphic works from over 20 countries and regions are to be displayed for 3 days.As a main province in unearthing bamboo slips and silk manuscript, Hunan has proved its profound culture heritage with the discovery of Mawangdui silk manuscript and Zoumalou bamboo slips of Changsha Prefecture during Sun Quan's reign of Wu in the Three Kingdoms period (222-252 AD) as well as Liye bamboo slips of Qin Dynasty (221 BC - 206BC). These abundant segments showed the original charm of ancient calligraphy and its natural unadorned smooth style. The exhibition gathers over 150 articles of experts, scholars and calligraphers from Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore and Vietnam and from China’s mainland and Taiwan as well as Hong Kong. The exhibition is co-organized by the Cultural Relics Press and the Bamboo Slips Museum in Changsha. Meanwhile, the 8th Symposium on China's Calligraphic History was held on the same morning to study the bamboo slips and silk instruments.Translator: Zhou QiongSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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Changde City decided to make some significant adjustments in the management system of Taohuayuan Scenic Zone this year. The area of the zone will be expanded from 29 square kilometers to 142.48 square kilometers; and 3 billion yuan will be injected to improve its supporting facilities within 5 years. Changde is making a marked stride in its way of vigorously building the tourism brand of "Taohuayuan" and the well-known tourist destination at home and abroad.Changde City keeps on boosting the tourism construction- "Double Ten" Project. Specifically, the city focuses on promoting ten tourist items including Taohuayuan and Liuye Lake Low-Carbon Tourist Town; and the county (district/city) promotes such ten programs as Huping Mountain and Chengtou Mountain. Moreover, it will build a Cultural Taohuayuan centered on Taohuayuan and Chengtou Mountain, a Natural Taohuayuan based on Huayan Stream, Huping Mountain, the Wetland in Western Dongting Lake and Yuanjiang Scenic Belt, and a Modern Taohuayuan taking Liuye Lake and the urban area as the main attractions. In a word, it is striving to build "a city in Taohuanyuan" in all directions, allowing tourists to experience the artistic beauty of Taohuayuan from various perspectives.Translator: Li LingSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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On April 8, the 2011 China’s Hunan Zhangjiajie International Forest Protection Festival & "Zhangjiajie Giant Salamander" National Geographic Indication Products Press Conference will be held in Zhangjiajie National Forest Park.This festival will be jointly hosted by the Hunan Provincial Forestry Department and Zhangjiajie Municipal Government.

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Exhibition Office of Zhangjiajie Government is the first prefecture-level city office of Hunan Province.Its purpose is to promote the cause of Zhangjiajie exhibition, to speed up construction of  the world's tourist city of Zhangjiajie.The Zhangjiajie Government will vigorously support the exhibition career, Zhangjiajie basic reception facilities continue to improve, coupled with its unique tourism resources, Zhangjiajie  exhibition economy will be the rapid development.Yao Hongyan, The Leader of Zhangjiajie Government Exhibition  Office Translator: ShuireSource: Zhangjiajie Official Web Portal

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Zhangjiajie has become the major origin area for Chinese giant salamanders, Xiang Zuoyi, vice mayor of Zhangjiajie City stated at the press conference held by the Zhangjiajie Municipal People’s Government on March 22nd, 2011 in Changsha.　　Zhangjiajie has made continuous efforts to further protect Chinese giant salamanders and attempted to make use of this precious resource in recent years. It has established the Chinese giant salamander protection zone, buffer zone and experimental zone with the total area of 14,285 hectares as well as 11 stations for Chinese giant salamander observation and protection. With the support of the Hunan Livestock and Aquatic Products Bureau, Hunan Giant Salamander Rescue Center, the International Giant Salamander Academic Exchange Center, Hunan Giant Salamander Protection & Development Association  have also been founded. In 2010 Zhangjiajie attracted investment worth more than 60 million yuan to build the first giant salamander biotechnology museum in China.　　Zhangjiajie has built 29 breeding bases for giant salamanders in natural, artificial and bionic environments, with the annual artificial breeding output of over 1,000 giant salamanders. This project has attracted 500 million yuan as capital investment in and out of Hunan Province, and 36 million yuan as fiscal support.Translator: Wang XiaoluSource:Hunan Official Web Portal

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A new ecological park has been built in north Changsha. A few days ago the first-phase project of Xiufeng Mountain Park was completed and opened to the public for free. A principal from the Management Committee of the Jinxia Economic Development Zone said that a view tower is to be built in the park to embody the development of north Changsha.　According to the overall layout, the park consists of one core, five functional zones and eight scenic spots. The five functional areas are the area for cultural activities, the ecological forest zone, the entertainment zone, the recreational zone for children and the park affairs management zone.　　The Jinxia beacon is designed like a golden champion trophy. The sculpture is 29.28-meter high, made up of such three parts as the pedestal, the body and the logo. The cone-shaped pedestal has a diameter of 12.9m at the bottom, and 8.6m at the top, transmitting glaring light at night.Translator: Zhou QiongSource:Hunan Official Web Portal

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Chinese Service Center for Scholarly Exchange (established by Ministry of Education) set up its ninth training base for studying abroad in Hunan University, marking the birth of the first national training base in central south of China. The unveiling ceremony kicked off at College of Foreign Languages and International Studies of Hunan University on the afternoon of March 21,2011.　　The training base will provide systematic training and comprehensive services for high school graduates to facilitate their studying abroad, relying on the teaching & learning resources and qualified faculties of the college, and introducing advanced international teaching model.　　It is learned that the trainees of the base will study in China for 2 years and then continue their studies in foreign countries including Canada, Britain, America and Australia for 2 or 3 years. After they have finished their studies, the degree granted by foreign universities will be accredited in China. In addition, the students who return to China after graduation can enjoy all-round supports and systematic services such as personal file management, settlement of household registration and employment information providing.Translator: Zhang MinsiSource:Hunan Official Web Portal

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March 23,2011, once again usher in the spring snow in Tianmenshan top, this is the second time since the spring of this year,The forest is full of fairy tales in Zhangjiajie Tianmenshan.Visitors are attracted to Spring Snow.Zhangjiajie spring snow sent blessing for tourists.

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