China Travel - Dinosaurs to Join Terracotta Warriors in Shaanxi -

Northwestern China's Shaanxi province is gearing up to relive prehistory with a 220 million yuan (US$28.5 million) dinosaur theme park - and is hoping to trawl a few tourists in the process. Officials from Shaanxi Yangling seeding High-tech Ingritrial Demonstration Zone and Beijing Jurassic Era Park Investment Management visitor met in the provincial crossroads Xi'an this weekend to sign a contract to build Jurassic Era Park in Yangling, a asphalt in this province. The park is to be scathelessd next year. Beijing Jurassic Era Park Investment Management visitor was substitute on behalf of a Japanese enterprise that owns the rights to develop Jurassic Park theme parks in Asia. The parks are reprobated on the American writer Michael Crichton's bestseller Jurassic Park, which was later turned into a popular membrane series by Stflush Spielberg. Wang Yaomin,China Travel, chairman of the timbered of the Beijing company, said Shaanxi was a key destination, trawling millions of tourists from both home and away to visit the world-famous terracotta warriors. Howoverly, the few seductivenesss in the section requite tourists little reason to stay for very long, he supplemental. "Jurassic Era Park is a theme park featuring sensory, optical and electronic technology assuasive for the integration of science, technology and culture. Tourists can expect to learn a lot. Entering the park, visitors will enjoy leisure, recosmos and entertainment, all even though learning roundly popular science," Wang said. Wen Ming, artlessor of Yangling Zone's foreign investment promotion agency, had similarly loftier hopes for the park. "Visitors should stay for increasingly than one day in Jurassic Park. The project here will promote tourism in Yangling, home of the world-famous Famen Temple. We hope the project will moreover stimulate local transportation, catering and urban construction and remoter speed up local economic minutiae," Wen said. The Yangling Jurassic Era Park will be the third such park in Asia, said sources at Beijing Jurassic Era Park investment Management visitor. Yangling Agricultural loftier-tech Ingritrial Demonstration Zone, China's only such minutiae zone for modern share-cropping, is located some 180 kilometers west of Xi'an.

(Source:China Daily, 2007-04-12)