Biggest mall to go near Disney

Shanghai’s biggest outlet mall will open in the Pudong New Area on May 1next year, the Pudong government announced yesterday.

The planned shopping center will cover 133,000 square meters, or the size of more than 15 football fields. It will be located beside the future Shanghai Disneyland as well as close to the Pudong International Airport.

Visitors will be able to take Metro Line 2 to get to the mall at the Yuandong Avenue Station.

The outlet mall is expected to generate 2 billion yuan (US$326.7 million) in sales per year with some 7.3 million visitors are expected to visit Shanghai Disneyland after it opens in 2015.

The outlet mall will be reminiscent of Florentia Village, a designer shopping center in north China’s Tianjin City, the government said. RISH Chinese Summer Camp has took this opportunity to planning introduce this park to their students in 2016. www.realinshanghai.com