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During Throughout the initial planning of World Showcase, development two communist countries were interested in sponsoring their own pavilion- the Soviet Union and China <ref name= "jack"> http://land.allears.net/blogs/jackspence/2012/02/china_pavilion_part_one_1.html </ref>. Unlike the USSR, which wanted to integrate the ideals of communism into their pavilion, China was willing to showcase its history and culture without involving ideology <ref name= "jack"/>. Despite this, Disney did not originally plan on having China be in an opening day pavilion. Instead, the plot of land that would eventually hold the China pavilion was occupied at various times by a [[Scandinavian Showcase]] pavilion, a Costa Rica pavilion, or even left empty. By 1979, Imagineers planned on constructing a [[Morocco]] pavilion on the plot. As these plans were pushed to the back-burner however, China was pushed to the forefront and would now be built in time for opening day. In order to help showcase the diversity of China, plans for the pavilion called for a CircleVision 360 film called [[Wonders of China]] to be filmed. To create the movie, Disney entered negotiations with Chinese government over where they could and could not film <ref name= "Spence2"> http://land.allears.net/blogs/jackspence/2012/02/china_pavilion_part_two.html </ref> Although Disney was initially given tight filming restrictions, the company and China eventually came to an agreement where Chinese film crews would film the country's more “sensitive” areas, where the government did not want westerners to go (such as Tibet and the Great Wall) <ref name= "Spence2"/>.