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Hunan, located in the middle of Southern China. The name of Hunan was derived from its geographic site, to the south of Dongting Lake, meanwhile, because Xiang is the largest river in this region, it is also called "Xiang" for short. The Northern part of Hunan backs on the Yangtze River and opposites Hubei Province, water transportation is convenient. It is within the opening up and developing zone in the middle and lower reaches of Yangtze River; Southern Hunan borders Guangdong and Guangxi province, being adjacent to the coastal opening up zone, Hongkong and Macau, and a through container truck can reach Hongkong at the same day;Hunan connects with Jiangxi in the east, with Chongqing and Guizhou in the west. so basically Hunan is positioned between the coastal opening up zone in Southern China and Yangtze Valley which adds to its geographical advantage.Hunan Province is divided into 13 provincially administered municipalities and 1autonomy, its capital is Changsha City., with 66,977,000 populations at present, among which 23,776,800 in city and town and 43,200,200 in countryside.

 

An Introduction to Zhangjiajie Forest National Park
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It locates in the south of Wulingyuan Scenic Area, with the total area of 481,000 m2. In 1982, the park was approved by the National Planning Board to be China¡?s first forest national park. The management organization of the park was located in the Luogu Tower, which is 32km away from the downtown of Zhangjiajie City, and 28km from Wulingyuan District Government.
It combines with the Suoxi Valley, Tianzi Mountain and Yangjiazhai scenic range to form the Wulingyuan Scenic Area, that was in 1998 granted as a key scenic spot by the State Council. And then in 1992 , it was listed in the World Heritage Directory by UNESCO , became a world-widely protected heritage.In 1994, it was named by the former National Forest Industry Ministry as a ¡§Model National Park¡¨, where the primitive natural scenes highlight Zhangjiajie in the tourists¡? travel notes: the uninterrupted peaks and steep cliffs, the deep valleys and far-below streams, the greenery woods and clean water, and the mist wreathed and the mountain-tops. Zhangjiajie is an amazing integration of being magnificent, fabulous, secluded, wild and elegant, as well as a unbelievable carrier of mountains, valleys, cliffs, forest and water.
Within the park, there are altogether more than 2,000 cliff mountains, towering into the sky like a dancing group, with various physical appearance and grand force of character. Standing on the top of a mountain, tourists may recognize the actors: the towering pillars, the indestructible high city walls; some bring you a chill like two stacked eggs; some allow you relax like a waving boat. Here the water is not only clean but also contribute an attraction. Five streams snakes in the deep valleys. The waterfalls sometimes are hidden in the jungle, sometimes shock you with the boom reflected from the valley.