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Expo 2010 - World Exposition Shanghai 2010
Duration: May 1 to Oct 31, 2010
Venue: Riverfronts between Nanpu and Lupu Bridges
Theme: Better City, Better Life
Expected Visitors: 70 million
Expected Exhibitors: 200+
World Expo 2010 Shanghai will be an
occasion for China to bring the world to its people and to present China
to the world. It will introduce the visitor to the latest trends in urban
planning and development as well as visions of leading experts of urban
living. By dedicating a 5.28-square-kilometer prime land in the city core
to the Expo, Shanghai hopes to build a lasting example of sustainable and
harmonious urban living. The 2010 Shanghai Expo will be yet another
significant event after the
Beijing 2008 Olympic
Games for China to showcase its economic achievements of the past
three decades, if nothing else.
According to the organizing committee, the Expo
Shanghai 2010 will be a grand international gathering. That means you
should be there too! Laurus Travel's customers going to Shanghai between
May and October in 2010 will have the opportunity to visit the Expo. If
you sign up for one of our China tours, we will help you obtain Shanghai
Expo ticket at cost. Our hotel is only 5 minutes away from the site by
taxi.
The Expo is still construction. It won't be
completed until early 2010. Please check back with us later for updates.
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World Expositions
World Expositions are galleries
of human inspirations and thoughts. Since 1851 when the Great
Exhibition of Industries of All Nations was held in London, the World
Expositions have attained increasing prominence as grand events for
economic, scientific, technological and cultural exchanges, serving as
an important platform for displaying historical experience, exchanging
innovative ideas, demonstrating esprit de corps and looking to the
future.
World Expositions are
governed and regulated by the Bureau of International Expositions (B.I.E.)
established by an international convention signed in Paris on 22
November 1928, with the following goals. To date, 154 member countries
have adhered to the BIE Convention. The B.I.E. regulates two types of
expositions: Registered Exhibitions (commonly called Universal
Expositions), and Recognized Exhibitions (commonly called
International or Specialized Expositions).
Universal Expositions are
massive in scale, sometimes 300 or 400 hectares in size (Montreal's
Expo 67 was 410 hectares, Osaka's Expo 70 was 330 hectares, Seville's
Expo 92 was 215 hectares. Shanghai's Expo 2010 is 500 hectares), and
Pavilions participating at a Universal Exposition are also large,
sometimes 5,000 to 10,000 square metres in size, mini city blocks in
themselves and sometimes more than several stories in height. (The
Australia Pavilion for Shanghai 2010 is 5,000 square metres, the
British Pavilion sits on a 6,000 square metres lot, as does the
Canadian Pavilion. The flagship Chinese National Pavilion has 20,000
square metres of exhibition space.) Shanghai Expo 2010 will allow
three types of Pavilion structures, (i) designed and constructed by
the participant; (2) individual Pavilions designed and constructed by
the Expo Authority for rent to the participant; (3) joint pavilions
designed and constructed by the Expo Authority for rent to developing
nations.
With excerpts from
Wikipedia, available under the
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