Aerial view of the China Drum, the Exhibition Center of Hefei Wanda Cultural Tourism City, in Hefei city, east China's Anhui province, 17 October 2016. Dalian Wanda Group, the Chinese entertainment giant owned by the country's richest man, opened the first phase of a sprawling 34 billion yuan ($5.1 billion) tourism park in the eastern city of Hefei. Wanda is building similar projects around the country, betting that China's rising incomes will drive more domestic tourism. In an interview with Reuters last month, chairman Wang Jianlin said that Wanda would look to build at least 20 such complexes in China. The 160 hectare (1.6 square km) first phase of Hefei Wanda City includes a theme park, hotels and a shopping mall. The second phase will be an "indoor recreation project, " according to a statement from the company. Wanda intends to extend the park into a third phase, which is still in the planning stages, it said.
