Activities celebrating Miao people's traditional “Girls' Day” will be held in Hunan's Suining County on May 1-5,2017.The theme of these activities is "Beautiful Girls Living in a Miraculous Oasis".The traditional event includes the following highlights:BanquetTime: At 6:00PM, May 2Venue: Suining National HotelActivity: Holding a large banquet; Visitors will join in the Miao people's "Maypole" dance with married Miao women who returned their parents' home. Opening Ceremony and Evening GalaTime: At 8:00PM, May 2 (Tentative)Venue: Indoor stadium of Suining Sports CenterActivities: Poverty alleviation-themed stories telling and folk performancesSouthwest Hunan Specialty Festival and Commodity FairDuration: May 2-5Venue: Dahan Commercial StreetActivities: All E-commerce businessmen in southwest Hunan will be invited to the fair to promote the area's local specialties, tourism products, local delicacies and intangible culture heritage through online/offline channels. Traditional Handicrafts Making in Zhaishi TownDuration: May 1-3Venue: Zhaishi TownActivities: Participating in folk performances such as taigushi (A folk performance integrating story-telling,painting,opera,silk figure,paper art,and acrobatics) dragon dance;traditional handicrafts making including paper-cut,embroidery,carved preserved fruit,and silver ornament.Freestyle Sports Competition in Dayuan Miao VillageDuration: May 1-3Venue: Dayuan Miao VillageActivities: Holding sports events such as wife-carrying contest and stilt race; presenting folk customs including lanmen wine (A polite way to greet guests),ciba (Glutinous rice cake) making,and straw dragon dance. Forest Tour in Huangsang Valley and Folk Customs ExperienceDuration: May 3-4Venue: Huangsang Valley scenic areaActivities: Guest greeting ceremony and worshipping rituals of Bana tribe.Origin of the FestivalThe festival is observed to commemorate Yang Li'niang, an ancient Miao heroine of the Song Dynasty (960-1279). Specific to Miao women only, it is normally celebrated in the Hmong regions of Hunan Province, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, and Guizhou Province that are near to Suining County. The festival was listed as a national intangible cultural heritage in 2008. 

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On April 21st, With the reputation of “The world’s first ladder” Zhangjiajie dragon ladder realizes the quality improvement efficiency.With the 326 meters height operation, the original time is 1 minutes and 32 seconds, now just 1 minutes and 24 seconds. Although it only shortens the eight seconds, but spends nearly 150 million yuan. In order to further improve the dragon ladder tourist reception environment, based on the first successful expansion to qualitative, this year the company has the right to use three host elevator, and add the fast passage for the sick and other special groups of human nature. After this upgrade again, it not only reduces running time, but also gets a comprehensive efficiency.In recent years, With the rapid development of wulingyuan tourism industry, tourism is growing. In order to meet the need of market demand and the development of the scenic area, starting from may, 2013, as an important tourism transportation, the dragon ladder has begun implementing distribution capacity. To July 10, 2015, all three elevators transformation has completed and opened to the public. First successful expansion efficiency dragon ladder after more than a year of operation, it not only effectively alleviates the peak tourism season, but also greatly enhances the visibility of the tour vehicles for the Chinese and foreign tourists.Translated by Sophia

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The Hunan Tourism Product & Project Promotion Conference was held in Hong Kong on April 27, 2017. Nearly 100 investors from home and abroad attended the conference. Hunan’s folk customs have left them a deep impression. Fifteen projects worth 60 billion yuan were announced that day. Projects of Xiangjiang Ancient Town Culster and Jiuguan Lake Auto Camping were among the list.Hunan Vice Governor He Baoxiang were present at the conference.“Hunan is endowed with rich tourism resources, and it has become a top tourist destination for Hong Kong people”, said a Hong Kong-based travel agency managing director. It is said that in the near future a red (revolutionary tourism) tourist travel route will be opened between Hong Kong and Hunan. The major tourists will be youngsters from Hong Kong. Through the route, they may better learn about Hunan.According to previous data released, in 2016, Hunan welcomed 565 million tourist trips, including 2.4081 million inbound tourist trips. The tourism revenue of the year was 470.743 billion yuan. During the 13th Five-year Plan period (2016-2020), Hunan plans to develop more than 150 provincial tourism projects, and build 100 national scenic areas and 35 provincial tourist resorts. All-round efforts will be made to promote all-for-one tourism, and facilitate the form of a regional tourism development pattern taking Changsha as the core, Zhangjiajie as the lead, Yueyang, Huaihua and Chenzhou as the growth poles.Translator: Xiao Juan

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The photos taken on April 27, 2017 show starry night views over Aizhai Suspension Bridge and a winding mountain road at Aizhai Town, Jishou City, Hunan. The fine combination of the beautiful natural scenery and the magnificent artificial structure makes the night view more impressive.The bridge, about 20 kilometers away from downtown Jishou, is an important project of Jishou-Chadong Expressway. It is a single-span suspension bridge, with the main span of 1,176 meters. The construction of the bridge has greatly improved the traffic situation of Hunan and Chongqing.Translator: Xiao Juan 

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On April 22nd, 2017 China mountain outdoor fitness leisure assembly, Huanglong hole sino-foreign parkour competition held on the single slope roof of Zhangjiajie Huanglong cave scenic spot. 17 players, in addition to domestic 15 running practitioners, and two foreign contestants parkour from Ukraine, Kazakhstan. In the end, the Chinese players He Yiyu won the first prize.Translated by Sophia

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The photos taken on April 24, 2017 show calligraphy and Chinese painting lovers are visiting Huang Yongyu’s Zodiac Animal Paintings Exhibition at Meilun Art Museum of Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House, Changsha.The exhibition shows 168 paintings of Chinese zodiac animals created by Chinese famous painter Huang Yongyu from 2006 to 2017.Titled "Twelve Months of Twelve Years", the exhibition opened to the public for free on April 23 and will last for two months.

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On April 23rd, in Zhangjiajie Wulingyuan district No. 5 valley Resort, Patches of grass seed flowers are green and beautiful, Which attracts many tourists to visit, enjoying the country spring scenery. Translated by Sophia

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International Labor Day officially celebrates workers and the labor union movement. It commonly sees organized street demonstrations and marches by working people and unions throughout most of the countries of the world. Eighty countries celebrate it on May 1. It is also observed at other time by some countries. The United States and Canada for instance celebrate it on the first Monday of September.Labor Day Holiday in China, lasting from April 29 to May 1 this year, is one of the major Chinese public holidays. Huge numbers of people take it as an opportunity for a spring day trip. The following recommended tours around Hunan are among the most popular. Take a look and enjoy yourself during the holiday.welcome to Zhangjiajie!

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