Virtual fantasy planned on a grand scale at Guizhou theme park

Plans have been unveiled for a groundbreaking virtual-reality theme park where visitors can find themselves immersed in a world living with aliens, riding UFOs and fighting dragons.

The theme park site in Guiyang, the capital city of Guizhou province, is part of a larger 1.3-square-kilometer, 10-billion-yuan ($1.52 billion) project being masterminded by the Shenzhen-listed Oriental Times Media Corp's animation unit.

Construction of the East Valley of Science and Fantasy has already started and it is scheduled to open in October.