Dubai luxury hotelier Jumeirah Group said it had been appointed by Hong Kong's Agile Property Holdings to manage a beach resort in China. The Jumeirah Qing Shui Bay Resort, located on the southern island of Sanya, will be Jumeirah's fourth management agreement in China after Shanghai, Guangshou and Macau, Jumeirah said in a statement. The resort will comprise a 250-room hotel and 50 private villas, and is expected to open in 2013, it said without disclosing the value of the deal. Jumeirah, famous for managing the sail-shaped Burj al-Arab hotel in Dubai, may not open the first of six hotels planned in China until 2010, as the project faces another delay due to the financial crisis, its Executive Chairman, Gerald Lawless, said in May. The group missed its original target to open the 338-room Jumeirah Han Tang Xintandi Hotel in Shanghai, China's financial hub, in late 2008 and in January pushed it back to later this year. The group has 14 hotels under construction from Shanghai to Phuket, Thailand and the Maldives, and looks to hit a target of 60 hotels under management by 2012. Keep up with the latest business news from the region with the Emirates Business 24|7 daily newsletter. To subscribe to the newsletter, please click here .