Chinese billionaire Wang Jianlin taking on Disneyland

By Philip Wen
Updated December 22 2014 - 11:08pm, first published 8:00am
Entrepreneur: Wang Jianlin is one of China's richest and most influential billionaires. Photo: Sanghee Liu
Entrepreneur: Wang Jianlin is one of China's richest and most influential billionaires. Photo: Sanghee Liu
Out of this world: At the Wanda Movie Park, visitors can go on rides simulating Chinese space exploration. Photo: Sanghee Liu
Out of this world: At the Wanda Movie Park, visitors can go on rides simulating Chinese space exploration. Photo: Sanghee Liu
Big plans: The Han Show is marketed as a "stage spectacle considered the most ambitious in the world". Photo: Sanghee Liu
Big plans: The Han Show is marketed as a "stage spectacle considered the most ambitious in the world". Photo: Sanghee Liu
Entrepreneur: Wang Jianlin is one of China's richest and most influential billionaires. Photo: Sanghee Liu
Entrepreneur: Wang Jianlin is one of China's richest and most influential billionaires. Photo: Sanghee Liu
Entrepreneur: Wang Jianlin is one of China's richest and most influential billionaires. Photo: Sanghee Liu
Entrepreneur: Wang Jianlin is one of China's richest and most influential billionaires. Photo: Sanghee Liu
Entrepreneur: Wang Jianlin is one of China's richest and most influential billionaires. Photo: Sanghee Liu
Entrepreneur: Wang Jianlin is one of China's richest and most influential billionaires. Photo: Sanghee Liu

Wuhan: Wang Jianlin's childhood was unlikely to have been lit up by the likes of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, as he was brought up in the 1950s by his father, a Red Army veteran, in an industrial region of China's western Sichuan province.

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