Chimelong Qingyuan Forest Resort
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There's a new train line slated for opening alongside the resort.

According to the plan, the green line from the Guangqing Industrial Park in the northeast, followed by the Merrill Lynch Lake, Silver Light characteristics of the town, Changlong Forest Resort theme park, to Changlong South China tiger provenance base.

The project will be built in two phases, the initial realization of Guangqing inter-city silver station and Changlong theme park connectivity, later through the east and west to extend the two directions. The initial project line is 8.55 kilometers long, with 3 stops. Respectively, silver lamp, long Avenue, long theme park.

Source: http://www.gdqy.gov.cn/gdqy/wlyzx/201704/b414b3905ecf4085be3d26cb25e94f56.shtml

Construction progress from May 2017:





Phase 1 will be completed by the end of 2019

Source: http://www.0763f.com/news/folder148/2017-05-19/235805.html

In early May construction of the foundation on the first of many themed hotels that'll be a part of Chimelong Qingyuan Forest Resort began



Source: http://www.ysdjzazgs.com/?p=3067

I was able to finally find a somewhat high resolution layout of not the entire resort area but of the main theme park that's currently under construction. This layout is from 2015 so the actual layout could be different than what is shown above.

Source: http://www.hengqin.gov.cn/webapp/otherproject/info/getinfo.jsp?info_id=http://zwgk.hengqin.gov.cn/commission/zwdt/201512/fa65b5db56fb42e0bf3ab623edcb4e25.shtml

The main theme park itself which had its groundbreaking ceremony back in December 2016 will cost about $1.5 billion USD

Source: http://www.gdqy.gov.cn/gdqy/tpxw/201701/ebbd01ac79ee45f9939c31a13d808778.shtml

A look at the facility and just some of the animals already in temporary holding in Qingyuan for Chimelong Qingyuan Forest Resort:

- Elephants
- Giraffes
- Birds
- Red pandas
- Primates





















Sources: http://m.weibo.cn/status/4032327325249449 and http://m.weibo.cn/status/3962825066325836 and http://m.weibo.cn/status/3945721365915665 and http://m.weibo.cn/status/3934579867892441

A few random concept images that weren't previously posted in this thread. They're from around June 2016:







Source: http://www.chimelong.com/activity/qy/overview.shtml

The Goddard Group are out in China working on the Forest Resort.

Exciting things are underway at Chimelong where an A-team of Goddard Group designers are hard at work on the upcoming FOREST KINGDOM theme park!

Our Founder & Chairman, Gary Goddard, is on-site in Qingyuan, China for the groundbreaking ceremony of one of our new theme park projects with our partners from ??????? Chimelong!

Sources: https://www.facebook.com/legacyentertainment/photos/10154720628749333 and https://www.facebook.com/legacyentertainment/photos/10154764728104333

Tons of details and new renderings have been released for the theme park part of Chimelong Qingyuan Forest Resort:

- Ground breaking took place on December 28, 2016
- The first phase is opening in 2019

The entrance plaza will be the largest in the world, covering 100 hectares




The theme park will feature a landmark 88 meter tall giraffe-themed castle that'll be the tallest building at a theme park in the world




The theme park will have the largest free-flight bird aviary in the world at 5 hectares



The theme park will have four resorts for a total of 3500 rooms with each being themed to a particular animal - giraffe, elephant, rhino, and zebra. Guests of the resorts will have views of the animals in the African Savanna at the theme park



Source: http://gz.chimelong.com/group/news/news-detail.aspx?id=5333

We've got the location of the resort as a whole now thanks to these government documents: http://www.qyup.gov.cn/qysghj/fags/201611/e6e7e08d09d045d1a9d9c471d8be4d61.shtml



^The star indicates the animal holding facility that is already actively holding animals (such as elephants) that will eventually be at the theme park



^All areas within the grey dashed lines are considered part of the resort, not necessarily the theme park itself

I'm still researching where the theme park area of the resort is specifically…