American entertainment company Disney is set to open its first theme park on Chinese soil on Thursday.
This theme park, opened in the Chinese city of Shanghai, is spread over about four square kilometers and has cost 5.5 billion dollars.
Disney says it’s its biggest move ever.
In this park, some places have been built keeping in mind the local culture.
According to the news agency AFP, hours before the opening of the park, queues of people have formed in front of the entrance and people are sitting on the ground waiting.
Security personnel wearing white gloves stand around the Mickey Mouse-themed ‘Steamboat Valley’ fountain, with the help of sniffer dogs monitoring security. The opening of the theme park in Shanghai comes as a two-year-old child was killed by an alligator at one of Disney’s own restaurants in Florida.
Shanghai Resort is the American entertainment company’s sixth park in the world and its first on Chinese soil. The park is one of the largest foreign investments in China at a time when output in the world’s second-largest economy has slowed.
Disney chairman and chief executive Bob Iger told reporters that ‘because this is the biggest market in the world, we wanted to send a strong message.’ It is the most creatively and technologically advanced among them.’
Guan Sang, the owner of a restaurant, has arrived with his six-year-old daughter and wife and is waiting for the door to open.
This family has booked to spend two days here. Meanwhile, he will also watch the movie ‘Lion King’ made in Chinese language. He says that we have always wanted to go to Disney Park. But it was not in China. Its ticket price is the same as in other places.
