Today is the 2nd China Tourism Day. To celebrate the special day, Seven Star Park, Elephant Trunk Hill, Fupo Hill, Diecai Hill, Princess City, Wolf Totem, Watermoon Cave, Jianshan Temple, Xiangshang Temple and etc all together 15 tourist attractions are all free for Guilin citizens.

Elephant Trunk Hill in Guilin downtown

Guilin Yanshan Region government is hosting the Dynamic East Bank of Li River Photograpy Competition.

The photos have to be shot in the east part of Li River from Haiyan Town to Xitang Town from now on to December 10, 2012.

The No.1 winner will have 10,000CNY bonus and the certificate. There will be another 77 winners who will won different bonus from 300CNY to 5,000CNY.

If you are interested in the competition you can mail your work to Guilin Yanshan Region Government.

Time: March 25-Oct 25, 2012

Place: Shangri La Theme Park

How to attend: take photos of Shangri La Theme Park and email us or mail to Guilin Photography Association.

Awards:

No.1 winner 1 person: certificate and 3000CNY bonus;

No.2 winner 3 persons: certificate and 1000CNY/person bonus;

No. 3 winner 5 persons: certificate and 600CNY/person bonus;

Award of Excellence 110 persons: certificate and 100CNY/person bonus.

From March 25 to Oct 27, 2012 Guilin Liangjiang International Airport stars the autumn schedule. 5 new route will launch. There will be 556 flights every week.

This summer 5 flight route will be added. They are Guilin-Ningbo-Qingdao, Guilin-Shijiazhuang-Shenyang, Guilin-Chongqing-Xi'an, Guilin-Wenzhou and Kunming-Guilin-Xiamen.

Guilin-Wuxi flight and Hong Kong- Guilin flight will return to operate from April 10th and May 1st.

Zhengzhou-Guilin-Sanya air route has been launched. The route is operated on every Monday, Wednesday and Friday by China South Airlines. The flight number is CZ3641/2. It departs from Zhenzhou at 13:40, arrive in Guilin at 15:40, departs from Guilin at 16:30, arrives in Sanya at 18:00 then departs from Sanya at 19:00, arrives in Guilin at 20:30, departs from Guilin at 21:15 and arrives in Zhengzhou at 23:15. Plus the current flights of Zhengzhou, Guilin and Sanya there are 10 flights now for this route.

Zhengzhou is the capital city of Henan Province in central China. The famous Shaolin Temple is in Zhengzhou. Sanya is the most important tourist city in Hainan Island.

Guilin Liangjiang International Airport

Guanyang County of Guilin City will host the Thousands-Dong-Family Culture Festival from today(Feb 27) to March 15, 2012.

In Chinese Lunar Calendar Feb 8th is Guanyang's Farming Toll Festival. The festival has more than one thousand year history. Every year the festival attracts thousands of tourists. In this year during the festival there will be some grand performance. Famous Chinese singers are invited to attend.

On the Chinese new year eve in Yangshuo County tourists from all over the world and locals attended long table fest. There were about 2000 people. Locals bring traditional dishes for tourists.  All of the people there enjoyed a very tradtional Chinese New Year and Chinese culture.

Since 8:30AM 4th November 2011 Qinshitan Reservoir have stated to add water to Li River to make sure of the water level of the river in dry season.

Suffering from bad weather Li River had no strong raining this year. Qinshitan Reservoir water is more than 35% less than recent years.

From 21st October Li River water level started to go down. If the flow is less than 30square meter/s the quality of Li River cruise tour will not be very good.

On 2nd November Guilin Vice Major Chen Lihua met Jet Star CEO Chloe in Lijiang Water Hotel.

Jet Star has launched Singapore-Guilin flight since 3rd November 2010. The number of Singaporean tourists to Guilin increased. From Jan to Sept this year 40,000 Singaporeans visited Guilin and increased 82% compared to last year.

Mrs. Chen and Chloe agreed to develop more cooperation.

From 00:00 of 1th November Guilin Railway Station will start the new schedule of trains. Passengers are advised to check the notice board when buying tickets.

There are the new schedule for some important trains. Train T6 Nanning-Beijing West departs from Guilin at 13:05 instead of 13:28. Train T8721 Guilin-Nanning  departs from Guilin at 13:47 instead of 13:21. Train K394 Kunming-Guilin North departs from Guilin at 14:22 instead of 12:42.