Beijing Salon offers a day of fun at Fun Capital

By Chen Boyuan
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A foreign girl poses for photo at Fun Capital in Beijing's suburban Changping District on May 20. [Photo by Chen Boyuan / China.org.cn]



More than 100 expats, adults and children from 11 countries had a day of fun at Fun Capital in Beijing's suburban Changping District on May 20 through the latest session of Beijing Salon -- Experience Beijing.

Fun Capital is a large commercial district consisting of an amusement park, Timeless Beijing, an Outlets shopping center and a five-star hotel, the latter expected to be operational later this year. The expats were given a guided tour, including free rides, of the amusement park before being free to shop.

Taking expat groups to the commercial district is an innovation of Beijing Salon, which, apart from offering hands-on experience of traditional Chinese culture, also seeks to promote local tourism resources among the foreign community in the capital.

Last November, Beijing Salon took some 50 expats on a daytrip to experience a suburban hot spring to promote the local bath culture to the international community working in Beijing.

Fun Capital takes pride in its "mingling of an international perspective and Chinese cultural elements," which Liu Pengfei, assistant to the company’s general manager, has stressed on different occasions.

Dr. Eugenia Bellova, wife of the Slovak ambassador to China, praised how the rides in Timeless Beijing managed to incorporate traditional Chinese cultural elements into the latest technologies. "Pleasantly surprised," she said it was a memorable experience and something comparable to Disneyland worldwide.

She has only been in Beijing for some two months, but she expressed hopes to take extensive tours in the Chinese capital while she and her husband are stationed here.

She added that the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative is a solution to the tensions in the world, because China has the power to reunify the world by offering win-win cooperation to countries along the Belt and Road.

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