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中文2098字 Theme park dreams are built on sand  BYLINE: David Eimer Theme park dreams are built on sand  BYLINE: David Eimer SECTION: NEWS; Observer;  South China Morning Post  January 24, 2009 Saturday  Netizens on the mainland have been up in arms over the plan by Maanshan to rebrand itself as Chinas City of Bathing. Maanshans officials decided in December that they could turn the city, in Anhui province , into a tourist destination by touting the delights of its many bathhouses - as if Maanshan was one of the English spa towns founded by the Romans, instead of the steel manufacturing hub it actually is. Unfortunately for Maanshan, most netizens associate bathhouses with prostitution, not with ancient Rome, and the plan collapsed in the wake of their protests. But its no surprise that Maanshans officials wanted to attract tourists to the city, given that almost every conurbation on the mainland thats bigger than a village now seems to think its economic future can be secured through tourism. At least Maanshan already had its tourist infrastructure - the bathhouses - in place. Many of the towns and cities that are pinning their hopes on becoming the next Lijiang or Pingyao believe that getting people to visit requires them to build a theme park, no matter how bizarre the subject or how expensive it is. If dinosaur fossils have been found nearby, as in Lufeng , in Yunnan province , then a dinosaur theme park is in order. Bruce Lees ancestors were from Shunde , in Guangdong, so of course the city is building a Bruce Lee theme park. There are now well over 2,000 theme parks on the mainland, nearly all built in the last decade and most funded, either wholly or partially, by public money. Now, officials have confirmed the long-standing rumours that Shanghai will be the site of the next Disneyland. Not to be outdone