The world's No.1 hypermarket is the New South China MALL Life City in Dongguan, Guangdong Province.

South China MALL (once known as "New South China MALL Life City") is a mega new urbanism international life block integrating shopping, entertainment, catering, business, office, home, leisure, sports, tourism and other nine functions. The project started construction in 2002, opened for investment in July 2003, and started trial operation on May 1, 2005.

So far, the brands that have been put into operation include the famous restaurant chain brands KFC, McDonald's, Pizza Hut, Zenkungfu, Germany's largest retail group Metro, Guangdong's famous home appliance supermarket chain fashion appliances, Jiarong supermarket, Nile International Hotel, the national famous hotel chain Jinjiang Star Hotel.

With Asia's largest IMAX3D giant-screen movie hall Wanda International Movie City, Asia's largest dynamic entertainment theme block Singapore Laughing World, as well as the BBC Teletubbies Theme Children's Park, Magic Cube KTV and so on.

Reputation

As a typical representative and forerunner of Mall in China, South China Mall has won the appreciation of the industry and praise from all walks of life for its innovative concepts, advanced planning, and exotic architecture, and has successively been awarded the "2003 Outstanding Contribution to the Most Influential Commercial Properties Award", "2003 China's Top Ten Commercial Properties (MALL)", "2004 China's Top Ten Commercial Real Estate Brands" and other awards.

In October 2005, New South China MALL Life City was hailed as one of the world's top two shopping centers by The New York Times, in April 2006, it was named one of the world's new seven wonders (along with the Sydney Opera House and the International Space Station) by the U.S. Newsweek, and in March 2007, it was ranked as one of the world's top ten shopping centers by Forbes.com.

Reference for the above:

Baidu Encyclopedia-New South China MALL-Life City