On April 8, a ceremony will break ground on a Disneyland theme park in Shanghai, China, after 10 years of negotiations(谈判) between Disney and the government.
Disneyland Shanghai is set to open in 2016 in the Pudong district. It is the sixth Disneyland theme park around the world, in addition to Tokyo ,Hong Kong ,France as well as the Orlando in the US,
Also, Disney is involved in Mandarin language co-productions on films such as Trail of the Panda. China's box office was up 64 percent in 2010, an sample of the growing economy. And there are discussions about building a cable television company.
"The park has ambitions (夙愿)to be both really Chinese and really Disney," explained Greg Brown.The park will be 57 percent owned by Shanghai Shendi Group and 43 percent by Disney.