China is building a theme park in order to attract Muslim tourists from around the world
Government leaders also want the negative view of Muslims in China
change. The country also wants its international relations with the Arab
World improve.
The theme park will consist of a mosque-like-looking Golden Palace, hotels,
a Conference Centre and with Arab street names and road signs.
Visitors can get acquainted with the ethnic culture of the Hui minority.
The Hui Chinese, unlike most other Chinese, the Islamic faith. The more than ten million Hui are ethnic related
to Han Chinese, but are descended from Chinese from the East that
Arabs are converted to islam.
Park visitors are invited to take off their shoes and women can
If desired, a head scarf. The Hui Culture park is part of the
extensive project World Muslim city, whose construction started in 2012
and that in 2020 should be ready.
The amusement park is to ordinary Chinese with to introduce Islam in a way
as the Chinese Government that like to see: as a peace-loving and orderly
religion in the people's Republic of which is loyal to the State and the party.