China Just Opened A Communist Party Theme Park
Theme parks are booming in China right now, thanks to the rise of the country’s middle class. Disney Resort is gearing up to open its doors in Shanghai in early 2016 and Universal Studios, which Steven Spielberg will help design, is slated to arrive in Beijing in 2019.
Not to be outdone, the Chinese government opened its very own Communist theme park on Monday in the city of Wuhan. The opening of the three million-square-foot “educational park” conveniently comes just days before the “Golden Week,” a seven-day public holiday from Oct. 1 to 7 commemorating China National Day.
The park focuses on highlighting important facets of Communist Party history and “outstanding Communist deeds,” according to a statement in Chinese by the Wuhan municipal government’s propaganda department.
And instead of roller coasters, waterslides and people dressed up as movie characters, the park features 29 statues of “great Communist figures” with 100-character-long biographies.
The park is carefully divided into sections, and is organized to show the Communist Party’s greatest glories. It features sculptures, interactive experience areas, and galleries themed on the Chinese flag, the lives and work of major Communist Party figures and the party’s history.
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