Universal Beijing Resort

The Universal Beijing Resort (Chinese: 北京环球度假区), commonly known as Universal Beijing, is an upcoming Chinese theme park and entertainment resort complex based in Beijing. The resort is operated by Universal Parks & Resorts. It is owned by NBCUniversal, a division of Comcast, and Beijing Shouhuan Cultural Tourism Investment.

Once completed, Universal Beijing Resort will consist of two theme parks (Universal Studios Beijing and a second planned theme park), a water park, a shopping, dining and entertainment complex (Universal CityWalk Beijing), and six hotels.

History
In February 2009, Shanghai Securities News reported that Universal Studios was close to winning approval from China's government to build a theme park in Beijing. Construction of Universal Beijing Resort began in October 2016.

Universal Studios Beijing
Universal Studios Beijing will be the resort's flagship park and will open as part of phase one.

According to the official website of the resort, there will be nine themed areas:


 * Hollywood
 * Jurassic World Isla Nublar
 * Paradoria
 * Water World
 * Kung Fu Panda Land of Awesomeness
 * The Wizarding World of Harry Potter
 * Transformers: Metrobase
 * Minion Land
 * Computeropolis

Second theme park
A later phase of Universal Beijing Resort includes plans for a second theme park which has not started to be built yet. The theme park will be located adjacent to Universal Studios Beijing.

Universal CityWalk Beijing
Universal CityWalk will act as the gateway to Universal Beijing's theme parks. The entertainment, dining and retail complex will include stores and restaurants and will be located between the parking and transit station and the theme park and waterpark entrances. CityWalk will open as part of the resort's first phase. These are expected to include:
 * Universal CityWalk Cinema: Beijing's largest IMAX venue, with 11 theaters and over 2,000 seats
 * Cutie Cone's Ice Cream
 * Neon Street Hawkers
 * Wubei Craft Food And Beer
 * Red Oven Pizza Bakery
 * The Cowfish Sushi, Burger, & Bar
 * Kakao Friends
 * POP Marts
 * Starbucks
 * Toothsome Chocolate Emporium & Savory Feast Kitchen
 * Peet’s Coffee
 * Grandma’s Travel Home
 * Universal Studios Store

Water park
A later phase of Universal Beijing Resort includes plans for a waterpark.

Resorts
The first phase of Universal Beijing Resort will feature two official on-site hotels which will be located in close proximity to the Universal Beijing theme parks.

Transportation
Currently a new station for the Beijing Subway is being construction at the entrance to Universal Beijing Resort near CityWalk. The subway station will be a part of the Batong line's south extension and Line 7's east extension.