Shanghai Happy Valley, China's largest theme park, is expected to open at the city's Mount She on August 8.

The park, the fourth in the wake of others in Shenzhen, Beijing and Chengdu, is a heavily-invested entertainment project launched by China's Overseas Chinese Town (OCT).

Shanghai Happy Valley, which covers an area of more than 900,000 square meters, consists of seven themes including "Sunshine Port", "Happy Times", "Shangri-la", "Ants Kingdom", "Shanghai Beach", "Gold Mine Town" and "Hurricane Bay".

Happy Valley will provide visitors a variety of entertainment programs on water, as well as large funfair equipment and shows, Dong said. Many of the funfair attractions, including the Wooden Coaster-Fireball, Diving Coaster, Mine Train Coaster, Space Shot &Turbo Drop and Mega-Lite, are imported from the Netherlands, Germany and the United States. A two-kilometer-long road and a 2.5-kilometer-long water touring line will connect the attractions.

Its 4,500-seat OCT Theater will present acrobatics, song and dance shows and concerts, while the Arthur Palace will house exhibitions and food for up to 1,400 people.

Liu Pingchun, chairman of OCT Shanghai, said the Shanghai project is part of OCT's nationwide chain development chart which aims to set up more Happy Valleys in different cities. He said negotiation is under way with the Wuhan municipal government about launching a Happy Valley to serve Central China, but the Wuhan project will be smaller than Shanghai's.

Source: China.org.cn