Expo 2010

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Expo 2010 logo
Expo 2010 logo

Expo 2010 will be held in Shanghai, China and is a scheduled World's Fair in the grand tradition of international fairs and expositions. The theme of the exposition will be "Better City – Better Life" and signifies Shanghai's new status in the 21st century as a major economic and cultural center. It is expected to generate the largest number of visitors in the history of the world's fairs in terms of gross numbers, although it will have a tough time matching the per capita visit rate of the 1967 Montreal World's Fair, attended by 50 million people at a time when Canada's total population was a mere 20 million.

The event is tentatively scheduled to be held from May 1, 2010 – October 31, 2010.

For the first time in history, the Shanghai 2010 Expo will feature a highly sophisticated online version called "Online Expo Shanghai"...

[edit] Infrastructure preparations

“Better City, Better Life”, the theme of Expo 2010
“Better City, Better Life”, the theme of Expo 2010

The site of the event is the Nanpu Bridge-Lupu Bridge region in the center of Shanghai along both sides of the Huangpu River. The area of the Expo 2010 covers 5.28 km².

Officials in Beijing announced plans on March 6, 2006, to begin construction of a second commercial maglev train system in Shanghai by the end of 2006. The planned Shanghai-Hangzhou Maglev Train would have connected Hangzhou and was planned for completion in time for Expo 2010.[1] However, after massive public protest and the the fall of the projects champion, Chen Liangyu, to corruption charges, the project was put on indefinite hold by the Chinese government in May 2007 to study "electromagnetic radiation concerns".[2]


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China Eastern Airbus A340 in special livery for Expo 2010, with "Better City, Better Life" text.
China Eastern Airbus A340 in special livery for Expo 2010, with "Better City, Better Life" text.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Xinhua (March 6, 2006), Maglev railway to link Hangzhou, Shanghai. Retrieved March 6, 2006.
  2. ^ Howard W. French, Ire Over Shanghai Rail Line May Signal Turning Point, The New York Times, August 10, 2007.

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Preceded by
Expo 2008		 World Expositions
2010		 Succeeded by
Expo 2012
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