Key spots form top tourist destinations

1 Natural landscape

Zhangjiajie, with its thousands of towering peaks, is among China's first batch of world natural heritage sites and one of China's first national forest parks.

The scenic area has vertical and horizontal ravines, immense rock summits, green trees and vines, and flocks of animals and birds.

Dongjiang Lake is located in Chenzhou city, Hunan province. It has served as a water reservation reservoir ever since it was built in 1994. Known as "South Dongting Lake", the Dongjiang Lake possesses a surface area of 160 square kilometers and has a water storage capacity of 81.2 cubic meters. As the biggest artificial lake in the middle and southern area of China, it is also a training base for water sports such as kayaking and water-bicycling.