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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, and director Jeff Blyth, were 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"/>. [[Image:Chinapavilionconcept.jpg|400px|thumb|Concept art for the China pavilion.]]
The China pavilion opened with the rest of World Showcase on October 1, 1982. When the pavilion opened it featured the aforementioned CircleVision attraction [[Wonders of China]], as well as two shops, various gardens and House of the Whispering Willows gallery, which would eventually house authentic Chinese artifacts. The center piece of the China pavilion is a replica of the Hall of Prayer and Good Harvests, which is part of the Temple of Heaven complex located southeast of central Beijing. The replica found in the pavilion was built at ½ scale and designed so that guests had to enter the Hall before seeing [[Wonders of China]].
The first major addition to the China pavilion came in 1983 when the Yong Feng Shangdian Shang Dian (Bountiful Harvest) store opened <ref> https://d23.com/a-to-z/yong-feng-shangdian </ref>. The following April, the House of the Whispering Willows gallery got over fifty artifacts from the Republic of China's Palace Museum <ref> http://www.mainstgazette.com/2012/04/treasures-of-forbidden-city.html </ref>. Throughout the pavilion's history, the contents housed within the gallery have changed.
When the China pavilion opened in 1982, the land adjacent to it was initially earmarked for the planned [[Denmark]] pavilion and featured only manicured lawns. When plans for that pavilion fell through however, the China pavilion was expanded <ref name= "martin"> http://www.martinsvids.net/?p=414 </ref>. As part of the mid 1980s expansion, on September 24, 1985, the counter service [[Lotus Blossom Café]] opened. <ref name= "martin"/> This was shortly followed by the opening of the table service restaurant [[Nine Dragons]] on October 23, 1985 <ref name= "martin"/>.
* Inside the Hall of Prayer and Good Harvests there are twelve outer columns supporting the roof. The columns represent the twelve months of the year and the twelve year cycles of the Chinese calendar <ref name= "jack"/>.
* The Street leading from the Wonders of China post-show to the World Showcase Promenade is named the "Street of the Nine Dragons" <ref> https://www.disneydocs.net/epcot-nomenclature </ref>.
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