• PLANS by China’s richest man to build a multi billion-dollar Gold Coast theme park have advanced, with the Wanda Group talking up the city at a major investment forum.

Wang Jianlin, 61, worth an estimated $39 billion, gave a glowing endorsement of the Coast, citing it as his only example of a city which had prospered from tourism outside of China.

“Its value was discovered more than 50 years ago, and investment began,” he told the forum in Xiamen this month.

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Chairman of China’s Wanda Group Wang Jianlin.