Opened in China The world’s largest Lego park, which thousands of visitors attended this Saturday in Shanghai. The site lives a boom of domestic tourism despite the economic slowdown that hits the country.
Despite strong temperatures, LEGO fans went massively to the parkthe world’s largest Legoland with 318,000 square meters.
“I love playing with the LEGO and we have many at home. So I wanted to come to Legoland as soon as possible,” said Shi, a 35 -year -old man at AFP, attending with his wife and son from the neighboring city of Hangzhou.
Toys and tourism: China opened the world’s largest Legoland park
Despite the slow growth of the Chinese economy in recent years, Its tourism market grew 18.6% in the first quarter with respect to 2024according to official statistics. This context favors the multiplication of the leisure offer in the Asian giant.
In May a new attraction of “Spiderman” was inaugurated in Disneyland Shanghaiwhile Warner Brothers Prepare the opening of a Harry Potter park in the same city by 2027.
Also the American toy giant Hasbro announced this week that the immense park of Peppa Pig which will open in this Chinese metropolis was already “in the creative design phase.”
But profitability remains a problem, especially for local businesses with less known brands. At the end of 2024, about 40% of the parks still did not obtain benefits, according to state media.
For the Chinese commercial war, it records its least participation in US imports since 2001
The participation of China in imports of USA collapsed at its lowest level In more than two decadesreaching only 7.1% in May, according to commercial data published Thursday by the United States Census Office.
This figure represents A 4.3 points drop compared to the same period of the previous year and mark the continuation of A descending trend that began during the first mandate of President Donald Trump.
Anyway, in September 2024 China still represented 14.8% of American importswhich accounts for the speed with which this reconfiguration of commercial relations between the two countries occurred.
Source: Ambito
