Dalian Wanda, the conglomerate controlled by China’s richest man, Wang Jianlin, has made outlandish headlines a routine occurrence in recent months, however, the company’s recent announcement of plans to add 24 new shopping malls within the next year, as well as 18 new five-star hotels, seems a bit crazy.
Even for a company that recently decided to take on Mickey Mouse, with plans for an amusement park in Wuxi that Wang challenged observers to compare “head to head with Shanghai Disney in terms of park visitors, and amount of revenue and see who is better.”