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An agreement on the Dalian Jinshi International Tourist Holiday Resort project is signed

An agreement on the Dalian Jinshi International Tourist Holiday Resort project is signed

Write: Santo [2011-05-20]

An agreement on the Dalian Jinshi International Tourist Holiday Resort project with a total investment of 50 billion yuan was signed at the Dalian Bangchui Island Hotel yesterday. This is a cultural tourism project with the largest investment, most substance and highest prestige in China up till now. Wang Gang, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and vice-chairman of the CPPCC National Committee; Wang Min, secretary of the CPC Liaoning Provincial Committee and chairman of the Standing Committee of the Liaoning Provincial People's Congress; Chen Yunlin, chairman of the CPPCC Subcommittee for Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Compatriots and Overseas Chinese; Quan Zhezhu, deputy director of the CPC Central Committee United Front Work Department and secretary of the CPC Leading Party Group of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce; Yue Fuhong, chairman of the CPPCC Liaoning Provincial Committee; Zhang Geng, vice chairman of the CPPCC Subcommittee for Education, Science, Culture, Health and Sports; Huang Qingyi and Li Xueju, vice chairmen of the CPPCC Subcommittee for Social and Legal Affairs; Jiang Zuojun, deputy secretary-general of the National Committee of the CPPCC; Xia Deren, member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Liaoning Committee and secretary of the Dalian Party Committee; Zhou Zhongxuan, member and secretary-general of the Standing Committee of the CPC Liaoning Committee; and the municipal leaders Li Wancai, Liu Junwen, Yao jiakai, Wang Ping, Sun Guangtian and Dong Changhai attended the ceremony.
The Dalian Jinshi International Tourist Holiday Resort is jointly funded by four domestic top-class private-owned enterprises: Dalian Wanda Group, China Oceanwide Holdings Group, Lenovo Group, and Dalian Infinna Group. Located at the Golden Pebble Beach, the tourist holiday resort, with a total investment of 50 billion yuan, of which 30 billion yuan is for cultural tourism, covers around nine square kilometers, including a series of functional zones such as the film and TV industrial zone, the theme park, the show stage, the hotel zone, the business center, the cultural tourism town and the supporting residential zone. The Wanda Commercial Planning Institute will undertake the overall planning together with some first-class design firms from home and abroad.
The film and TV industrial zone, with an area of 330 hectares and an investment of 8 billion yuan, covers all film industry needs--a world first-- indoor and outdoor shooting areas, digital production, the Film & TV Convention & Exhibition Centre, the Film & TV Academy, etc. In the shooting areas, there are 15 outdoor themes for Continental ambiance, the Amazon forest, the future world, etc. and two of the world s largest indoor shooting areas, with 8,000 square meters each and a total construction area of 60, 000 square meters. The Film & TV Convention & Exhibition Centre is a key component of the zone, one of the largest theaters of which can accommodate 2,000 people and will host a world-class Dalian International Film Festival annually, which aims at creating a world-famous festival bearing the eponym for the Oscar in the future. The Theme Park covers an area of 1.3 square kilometers, with an investment of 8 billion yuan, which is equivalent to Tokyo and Hong Kong Disneyland in its scale. In the park, there will be the world's largest indoor amusement area for winter tourism in Dalian. The Show Stage is designed, planned and directed by world-renowned design firms. Five billion yuan of the total investment will be for star-rated hotels and business hotels, and supporting commercial facilities as well. The construction of the resort is scheduled to start in the first half of the year of 2011, and will be finished in 2013.
Director Zhang Shikun of the Jinzhou New Area Administrative Committee said in his speech that the Party Working Committee and the Administrative Committee of the Jinzhou New Area have accelerated the construction of the resort as a major industrial project; they will provide better services throughout the whole process to ensure an early start, early accomplishment, early operation and early achievement of a win-win situation. He expected that all the parties in the project will strive to build--to world standards and with global concepts--the resort into a world-class attraction for cultural tourism.

President Wang Jianlin of the Wanda Group said, on behalf of the investors, that all the investment teams are optimistic about completion of the project in 2013, adding a world-class card for Dalian as well as for Liaoning.

On behalf of the Dalian Party Committee and the Dalian Municipal Government, Mayor Li Wancai extended warm congratulations to the success of the project. The resort is another major industrial project being signed and settled after the establishment of the Jinzhou New Area, said Li, it is also the largest cultural tourism project in China. It is significant for perfecting the service functions of the Jinzhou New Area, filling the gap in the development of Dalian s cultural tourism industry and improving the modern service industry of Dalian as well as the Liaoning Coastal Economic Zone. Li expects strong cooperation between the Jinzhou New Area and the investors; with advanced construction and development concepts, they will plan the resort from high starting point, construct to higher standards and manage at high levels to create a top global cultural tourism project and lay a solid foundation for building Jinzhou New Area into a shipping and logistics cluster, a modern service industry cluster and an international Dalian and Liaoning coastal tourism resort. The Dalian Municipal Government will fully support the development and construction of the project, creating better conditions and services for the development of all the enterprises involved.