‘Titanic’ replica to open for tours

Cruise to the glorious past: The ‘Titanic’ replica under construction in Daying County, southwest Sichuan province. — AFP

Suining: The Titanic is being brought back from the deep, more than a century after its ill-fated maiden voyage, at a landlocked Chinese theme park where tourists can soon splash out for a night on a fullscale replica.

The project’s main backer was inspired to recreate the world’s most infamous cruise liner by the 1997 box-office hit of the same name – once the world’s top-grossing film and wildly popular in China.