{"id":779,"date":"2021-08-30T11:45:44","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T15:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/?p=779"},"modified":"2021-08-30T11:46:01","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T15:46:01","slug":"universal-studios-sets-opening-for-first-theme-park-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/?p=779","title":{"rendered":"Universal Studios sets opening for first theme park in China"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BEIJING (AP) \u2014 Universal Studios announced Monday that its first theme park in China will open in the country\u2019s capital in September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company set the opening date for Sept. 20, according to a statement and video posted on the Chinese social media site WeChat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under construction since 2016, the theme park has received strong backing from Beijing authorities, including the extension of one of the city\u2019s main subway lines to the site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Along with rides, shows, restaurants and exhibits, the resort features a pair of hotels. The project will complement Universal\u2019s other two Asian parks in Japan and Singapore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Harry Potter, Jurassic Park and Kung Fu Panda film franchises feature heavily, along with the Minions from the \u201cDespicable Me\u201d movies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beijing\u2019s historic sites have long drawn tourists. The coronavirus pandemic curtailed a rapidly growing demand for domestic travel and tourism, but new cases of local transmission have been falling, feeding optimism in the tourism sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING (AP) \u2014 Universal Studios announced Monday that  [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":781,"href":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions\/781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}