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Wanda seeks to beat Disneyland in China

It plans to be the country's biggest theme-park operator by building 15 multibillion-dollar theme parks by 2020

Published Mon, Sep 26, 2016 · 09:50 PM
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Shanghai

IN the year of 383 in the Jin Dynasty, 80,000 soldiers in the town of Feishui successfully warded off attackers who outnumbered them ten-fold. It has been lauded as one of the most famed underdog victories in Chinese history.

Billionaire Wang Jianlin is betting on strength in numbers prevailing as he battles modern-day invader Walt Disney Co to become China's biggest theme-park operator.

The chairman of Wanda Group was in the audience on Saturday as dozens of actors in Feishui, now part of the eastern Chinese city of Hefei, attempted to mark the openin…

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