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Some pretty cool concept art for the new Intamin Impulse heading to Wanda City in Wuxi, China for 2018.

Source: https://twitter.com/VHCoasters/status/893618246972317698

The massive new B&M wing coaster at Wanda City in the Chinese city of Wuxi has gone vertical.

Source: https://twitter.com/VHCoasters/status/892411507883077632

Wanda Group has announced that it will sell 91% of its cultural tourism city and 100% of its hotel operations to Sunac China Holdings for US$9.3 billion. The deal includes thirteen cultural tourism cities in Wenshang, Nanchang, Hefei (above photo), Harbin, Wuxi, Qingdao, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Chongqing, Guilin, Jinan, Kunming, and Haikou.

Under the sales agreement, the cultural tourism cities will retain the Wanda name, with design, construction, and management to be continued by Wanda.

Source: http://www.inparkmagazine.com/wanda-group-susan/

A first image of the junior suspended coaster now installed at the new indoor Wanda Theme Park in Qingdao, China.

Source: https://twitter.com/VHCoasters/status/882649083378315265

Wanda Harbin Cultural Tourism City is now open!



Sources: https://twitter.com/dalianwanda/status/880591766436622336 and http://www.gaoloumi.com/forum.php?mod=forumdisplay&fid=107

Another Wanda City is in the works. This one is in Kunming, a city in China’s southern Yunnan province.

Wanda Group paid a little over $1 Billion for the land and the cost of the development itself is about $4.5 Billion.

Kunming Wanda City will be completed in 2019.

Location is the light blue area:





Kunming Wanda City will include: "a new entertainment paradise, Ocean Paradise, a six-star hotel"



Sources: http://www.asiaattractions.net/news/show-3041.html and http://yn.leju.com/news/2017-06-08/15596278490556528382634.shtml and http://m.leju.com/news-yn-6253479851928637571.html and http://www.weidu8.net/wx/1013149793194434 and http://m.v4.cc/News-4728404.html

Additional information on Wanda Jinan Culture, Sports and Tourism City:

The cost of the 5.3 million square meter project is 31 billion yuan (about $4.5 billion) and construction is beginning this year and is on track for its 2021 completion



Location:



Source: http://chuansong.me/n/1429320252694?jdfwkey=flj8i1

New satellite imagery from May 16, 2017 just came out for Qingdao showing the significant progress being made on Wanda Oriental Movie Metropolis which includes an indoor theme park. Concept rendering is included below for reference:





Sources: http://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/film-tv/article/1896765/why-chinas-richest-man-building-hollywood-east and https://goo.gl/maps/PZvSbBfTtDm

This update is a few months late but as of at least February 2017 construction has begun on the outdoor theme park at Wanda Guangzhou Cultural Tourism City. Here's the layout and most recent (February 2017) satellite imagery for it which shows that at the time the only progress on the theme park itself appears to be the entrance area:






Sources: https://gz.fang.anjuke.com/loupan/272830.html and https://goo.gl/maps/1vkFBAXuxX22 and http://www.mcc.com.cn/mccen/focus/_325423/451654/index.html

Wanda Nanning's indoor theme park had its grand opening on June 17, 2017!







More photos at the source: http://m.xbxys.com/zhongyi/5338265.html#pc