12 million tourists may visit Beijing resort each year starting in 2020

A theme park being built by Universal Parks & Resorts and a Chinese State-owned enterprise will start recruiting employees in the second half of 2019, as it seeks to hire about 10,000 employees for the first phase of the project.

The theme park, which is expected to cost $8 billion and the first phase of which will be opened in 2020, will exceed its peer in Orlando, Florida, in scale, Duan Qiang, chairman of Beijing Tourism Group, told Beijing Daily. The company is one of the shareholders in Beijing Shouhuan Cultural Tourism Investment Co Ltd, which partners with Universal for the project.