Beijing plans for a Disney Park by 2010

[HKDisneyland]

According to SCMP (South China Morning Post) in Hong Kong:


Beijing has unveiled an ambitious plan to build a Disney theme park by 2010, in a move that could see the capital leapfrog Shanghai in the race to become the first mainland city to compete with Hong Kong Disneyland.

 

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A day later after that news report was released. Disney denies considering Beijing. However, negoiations are going on with Shanghai but no concrete deal according to the SCMP.

Read it here below:

Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Disney denies theme park plan for Beijing

The Walt Disney Company denied a news report on Tuesday that said Beijing hopes to build a Disney theme park by 2010.

“Media reports that claim Disney is building a park in Beijing are inaccurate and not based on fact. Disney has no plans to build a park in Beijing at this time,” Disney said in a statement.

This follows a SCMP report on Tuesday that the Beijing city government unveiled a plan to create the second Disney theme park in China in its development road map — a move that could pose competition to the recently opened Hong Kong Disneyland.

The report said the city’s development and reform commission proposed the theme park be built in Beijing’s National New Media Base in the city’s southern Daxing district.

Disney spokeswoman Alannah Goss said the company is still talking to Shanghai authorities about building a Disney theme park in the financial hub, but no agreement has been reached.

Hong Kong opened its Disney theme park in September and has counted on mainland tourists as a major source of visitors for the park.

Hong Kong Disneyland is a joint venture between Walt Disney and the local government, which shouldered the bulk of the park’s construction fees.

 

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I hope that no new park gets built at all. As its been said before, HKDL really needs work before they even start to think about a new one.