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City to build China's "Jurassic Park"

Xinhua, November 18, 2016 Adjust font size:

Southwest China's Zigong City, in Sichuan Province, plans to build a "Jurassic Park."

The city government signed a deal with Shenzhen's Fantawild Group on Thursday, with the two sides to invest 3.1 billion yuan (450 million U.S. dollars) in the tourist attraction.

The theme park, covering 67 hectares, will be next to the existing Zigong Dinosaur Museum. The park will feature virtual reality and augmented reality to "liven up" the dinosaurs and is expected to draw more than three million visitors each year.

In 1902, China dug up its first dinosaur fossil in northeastern Heilongjiang Province. In 1979, a cluster of dinosaur fossils was found in Zigong City.

Fantawild Group has built more than 20 theme parks in China, which attracted about 23 million visitors last year. Endi