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Hefei Wanda City is now open.

The chairman of Dalian Wanda Group opened the doors Saturday on his company's $3.6 billion theme park in the city of Hefei, the capital of China's eastern Anhui Provence. The development is the second of a planned 15 mega-resorts the tycoon has vowed to build by 2020, as his conglomerate vies with Disney for dominance of China's rapidly emerging theme parks business.

The new Hefei Wanda City spans some 365 acres and includes an outdoor theme park, indoor water park, shopping mall, cinema attraction, dozens of restaurants and bars and a cluster of luxury hotels. At the opening ceremony Saturday, Wang announced that Wanda would invest another $1.5 billion to build more indoor entertainment facilities at the park within two to three years.

In addition to the world's tallest rollercoaster loop, highlights at Hefei Wanda City include themed lands based on Anhui's ancient architecture, Chinese acrobats, a streetside display of traditional crafts and a pyrotechnic stage show recreating the historic Battle of Feishui, a legendary episode well known to Chinese school kids.

Source: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/wanda-battles-disney-china-theme-932386

Update on construction progress for Wanda City Hefei.

With only little more than a month until opening day Wanda City in Hefei, China has been testing its rides and applying the finishing touches to the park.

Source: http://www.vhcoasters.com/?p=5388

Wanda Theme Park Hefei, Duel Tilt Coaster test ride:

New images from the Wanda Hefei Park.




Source: http://www.themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1666857

Second one from VHCoasters is Wanda City Hefei.
Again the quality of pictures on the main page is pretty low but it covers a lot of ground and gives a good idea of what to expect from the park.

If you click through to each photo and click through again you get much higher resolution images.

These images came from the following news site http://365jia.cn/ however I cannot find the source article, mainly due to Google's (and mine) limited translation skills. If anyone can find the original article it would be good to see if there were any more images.

This park is due to open around September/October this year.

Source: http://www.vhcoasters.com/?p=5076

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http://biz.ianjia.com/house/22921.html

The design of Hefei Theme Park gives center stage to elements from the local Hui Culture. Ideal for family outings, this park will house the world’s highest looping rollercoaster as well as a zone just for kids.

Source: http://www.wanda-group.com/businesses/culture/outdoor_theme_parks/

Theme Park renderings from the Wanda booth at the Asian Attractions Expo:

Source: Announced