Governor Xu said, “Hunan is implementing innovation-oriented opening up and development strategy; accelerating construction of ‘A province of five powers’ (Powerful in economy, science and education, culture, ecology, and opening up), and build Hunan an inland innovation and opening up highland with high quality progress.” He continued, “Hunan has enhanced opening up to the outside world, providing a wide range of business opportunities. It is active in innovation, and has a good developing momentum and excellent business environment. The province has established advantageous industries in engineering machinery, advanced rail transit equipment, aerospace equipment, new materials, automobile manufacturing, biomedicine, and cultural creativity.” He added, “Last year, the provincial regional GDP was 3.39 trillion CNY, an increase of 8%. In the first three quarters of this year, it maintained a steady growth rate of 7.8%.”He expected that Hunan would speed up cooperation with the world advanced enterprises. More efforts will be put to introduce more leading enterprises into Hunan. Hunan would continue to provide sound environment for those enterprises to invest in, settle down, and expand in Hunan.Hunan Governor Xu Dazhe attended the opening ceremony of the China International Import Expo (CIIE) in Shanghai on November 5, 2018. He visited global well-known enterprise pavilions, including Johnson Controls, Nokia, Boeing, and KUKA.Xu Dazhe sincerely welcomed famous global enterprises such as Johnson Controls to invest in Hunan, to share and achieve mutual benefits and win-win results.Vice Governor He Baoxiang also participated in the event.Source from Enghunan

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Things You May Not Know about Start of WinterThe traditional Chinese lunar calendar divides the year into 24 solar terms. Start of Winter, (Chinese: 立冬), the 19th solar term of the year, begins this year on Nov 7 and ends on Nov 21. In ancient times, the Chinese people took the Start of Winter to be the beginning of the winter. However, in fact, the Start of Winter is not the beginning of winter in terms of meteorology. The climate every year is different, so the beginning of winter could be quite different. And with the vast territory of China, winter of every area doesn’t begin at the same time.Here are eight things you should know about Start of Winter.Welcoming the winter in ancient timesThe four beginnings of the seasons were important festivals in ancient times. Before the Start of Winter, the ancient emperor would take a shower and have no more meat. On that day, the emperor would lead his officials to the suburbs and perform the ceremony of "Welcoming the winter."1.Eating dumplingsA legend has it that at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty (AD25-220), "Medical Saint" Zhang Zhongjing saved many people in Henan province from a typhoid epidemic and their ears' from being frostbitten around Start of Winter. He cooked mutton, hot peppers and herbs to dispel the cold and increase body heat. He wrapped these ingredients into a dough skin and made them into an ear shape. Since then, people have learned to make the food which became known as "dumpling". Today there is still a saying that goes "Eat dumplings on Start of Winter Day, or your ears will be frostbitten".2.Yifan Festival of Mulam Ethnic MinorityYifan Festival is one of the most important festivals of the Mulam ethnic minority in Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. It is held around the Start of Winter every three to five years and lasts one to three days. The festival includes inviting the god, offering sacrifices, asking the god to enjoy the sacrifice, singing praise of the god, drinking wine with the blood of chicken, and sending the god off.3.Eating pumpkinsIn Tianjin, on the first day of Start of Winter, people eat dumplings stuffed with Chinese pumpkins (wogua). It is a common vegetable in North China. Generally, the pumpkins are bought in the summer and stored until the Start of Winter when they are taken out.4."Nourishing the winter" On the first day of Start of Winter, there is a custom, "nourishing the winter", in Southeast China in places such as Fujian, Guangdong and Taiwan provinces. To prepare for the oncoming cold winter, people there like to eat high-calorie food such as chicken, duck, beef, mutton, and fish, which are usually stewed with the four Chinese medicines: angelica, ligusticum wallichii, Chinese herbaceous peony and rehmannia glutinosa libosch, to enhance the effectiveness of the nourishment.5.Offering sacrifices to ancestorsThe Start of Winter, when the autumn crops have been placed in storage, was the time of the festival for the people of the Manchu Eight Banners and Han Eight Banners in Benxi of Liaoning province. Incense was burned and sacrifices offered to ancestors. The Eight Banners (baqi) were administrative/military divisions during the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911).

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The 16th CATF opened that day. Enterprises from more than 20 countries and regions participate, including Uganda, Turkey, Egypt, Finland, Russia, Thailand, India, and Malaysia.The photos taken on November 2 show customers choose exotic commodities at the China Agriculture Trade Fair (CATF) at the Changsha International Convention Center.Translator: Pang Yuehui

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The photo taken on November 1 shows the recently opened lakeside road phase Ⅱ in Bailang Town, Zixing. The road, also called lakeside wetland pathway, connects Dongjiang Lake and the wetland. This 4.5-km road passes through three villages. It has two lanes and a cycle track. The total investment is 39.85 million yuan.Translator: Pang Yuehui

News 2018-11-03 14:33 View：1311

The theme of this summit is “A New Era of Openness,A New Platform of Development,A Beautiful New Hunan”On October 16, 2018 Silk Road Business Summit was grandly opened in Zhangjiajie.Former President of Croatia - Stepan Mesic,Former Speaker of Nepal - Subas Nemwang,and Chen Zhimin, Deputy director of the Social and Rule of Law Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference,They attended this opening ceremony or delivered a speech,Mr. He Baoxiang, deputy governor of Hunan Province, announced the opening of the conference.Georgian Minister of Environmental Agriculture - Levin David Tashvili; China and Africa Interior and Public Security Minister - Henry Wangze Linjisala; Wang Shucheng, member of Foreign Affairs Committee of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and chairman of World Chinese Newspaper Association; China Brand Building Promotion Association, Chairman of the Board - Liu average; Former Vice Minister of China - Zhang Zhigang; China International Chamber of Commerce, Executive Director - Zhang Yanling; Vice President of China Civil Society International Exchange Promotion Association - Dou Enyong,and etc,special guests attended this summit.Mr. Guo Zhenggui, Secretary of Zhangjiajie Municipal Party Committee, presided over the opening ceremony of this summit. Mr. Liu Ge'an, deputy secretary of the Zhangjiajie Municipal Party Committee and mayor, made a special speech.Mr. He Baoxiang met with the ambassadors and embassies and consulates attending the summit.Mr. Guo Zhenggui met with guests from various business associations.This summit held six parallel forums.This summit reached a consensus - 《Zhangjiajie consensus》, to build a new platform for international economic and trade cooperation and humanities exchanges.Source from shuire

News 2018-10-27 17:29 View：1932

As a member of the World Geopark, Zhangjiajie has become a sister park with many world geoparks at home and abroad. After verifying with Zhangjiajie City Geopark Management Office, Zhangjiajie has established a sister park with 19 world geoparks at home and abroad. Among them, there are 13 domestic sister geoparks and 6 international sister geoparks.

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On October 22, 2018, Zhangjiajie held a tourism promotion conference at Park Inn Hotel in New Delhi, India.This promotion was led by Zhangjiajie Municipal Government, and jointly sponsored by China Economic Promotion Association of India and Zhangjiajie China Travel Service Co., Ltd.This is the first promotion conference held in India since Zhangjiajie city was founded. This conference was attended by Secretary General of Indian Tourism Association, Mr. P. Vijayasarathy, and the relevant person in charge of Tourism Association, and the head of China Economic Promotion Association of India, relevant media, etc.More than 30 persons.At this promotion conference, Peng Hong, Head of the delegation of Zhangjiajie City and vice chairman of CPPCC National Committee, delivered a warm speech on behalf of the municipal government.Mr. P. Vijiayasarathy, Secretary General of the Indian Tourism Association, first welcomed Zhangjiajie delegation to New Delhi, and promised to organize members of the association to seriously connect with Zhangjiajie government and Zhangjiajie Travel Agency again, making Zhangjiajie a tourist destination for Indian nationals.Source from Zhou Zhiqiang

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From October 20th to 21st, 2018, "German Media Interview Group" visited Zhangjiajie Wulingyuan Scenic Area and Grand Canyon Scenic Area.It is understood that German media reporters of this interview group are a total of 8 persons, from German World News, Frankfurt Report, Germany BZ Communication Company, Rhine Neckar and other media.Source from Deng Daoli

News 2018-10-22 17:24 View：1497