Review
You really need a vivid imagination to picture a Disneyland near Chuansha town. At present the area is a stretch of countryside halfway between Shanghai’s Pudong International Airport and Shanghai city consisting of wetlands, woods, meadows and streams.
We talked to locals in the quaint bicycle-filled streets of Qigan village and Zhaohang village and they are all very familiar with the Disneyland brand. They have been eagerly anticipating the construction of a Disney park here for nearly 10 years now and some were beginning to doubt it would ever come. However, in January 2009 it was announced that the Shanghai government and The Walt Disney Company had agreed to build a Disney park in this area, a plan which is being ‘reviewed by China's Central government’ now.
The opening is scheduled for 2014 and there are talks about 48 hours visa free access to Mainland China for overseas tourists in order to visit the park. Can that be true? There is a small chance that I was picturing the wrong spot, but the future site is definitely somewhere very very close to it. I am extremely curious as to what is going to happen here. The moment Disney puts a fence in the wood, I’ll be back!
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