CHINA'S largest private property developer has opened an entertainment complex to rival Disney's US$5.5 billion Shanghai theme park, which opens next month.

Wanda Group executives unveiled their US$3 billion Wanda City in the eastern city of Nanchang to thundering music reminiscent of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" theme and hailed the center as a representative of Chinese entertainment culture in the face of encroaching foreign influences.

The site includes an US$800 million China-themed park filled with twirling "porcelain teacup" rides and bamboo forests, an indoor shopping mall with cinemas, restaurants, hotels and the world's largest ocean park.