Qi Jie, executive president of Wanda Commercial Properties Co Ltd, addresses the ceremony.

Xu Zhaojun, Jixi’s party secretary, addresses the ceremony.

Qi Jie, executive president of Wanda Commercial Properties Co Ltd, and Jixi municipal government officials, jointly lay the foundation stone for Wanda Plaza.

Wanda Group held a grand ground breaking ceremony for its new plaza in Jixi City, Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province on May 17, 2013.

Officials from the municipal government and Wanda witness the moment with several hundreds of guests.

Xu Zhaojun, Jixi’s party secretary, and Qi Jie, executive president of Wanda Commercial Properties Co Ltd, addressed the ceremony. They laid the foundation stone for Wanda Plaza with Kang Zhiwen, mayor of Jixi.

"Wanda’s entering into Jixi will power the city’s development and the municipal government will support Wanda’s construction and operation as always,” said Xu, adding that Wanda Plaza will bring the residents first-class environment for shopping, business, inhabitancy and recreation.

"The new plaza will become the new landmark in Jixi City,” said Xu.

The plaza is the city’s largest urban complex project in terms of the investment and scale so far.

Jixi is located in southeastern Heilongjiang Province and is one of the important coal mining bases in China.