Posts Tagged ‘ Expo 2010 Shanghai ’

On July 19th, the 80th opening day of the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, the U.S. Pavilion ushered its 3 millionth lucky visitor. The couple Cai Zhiping and Wang Xiangjuan from Shaoxing became the stars of the U.S. Pavilion. It is the first time for this 70-year-old couple to visit the Shanghai World Expo. They...

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The campaign of “The New Seven Wonders of the World”, set by New Wonders Foundation in 2007, now entered the final stage of voting. On July 19th, Bangladesh and Palestine were on the canvassing in their pavilion in Shanghai Expo Site, and appealed visitors to vote for their candidate projects. It is learned that...

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The United Nations Under-Secretary General and UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner said yesterday that the Shanghai World Expo is not only to show the Pavilions that every country built, but also to integrate “Green Wisdom” of all mankind together to practice their inventions and innovations. After the Shanghai World Expo, the United Nations Environment...

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Yesterday, the Shanghai Wild Animal Park’s “Expo Giant Panda Museum” was officially opened to the public, and the 10 “Expo Pandas” met with the visitors. The number of pandas in the park reaches 14 now, which forms a mode of three generations including the old, the middle-aged and the young. To welcome the 10...

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This morning, the 2010 Miss America winner Rima Fakih visited the American Pavilion to add to the fun of the U.S. National Pavilion Day (July 2nd) in advance. Rima Fakih who just won the 2010 Miss America title on May 19 was the first Arab-American girl elected in the history of Miss America. Rima...

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Last fall, 20 female students from the Shanghai University of Finance went out of campus and joined the army. After the rigorous test and experience for six months, they have become the indispensable support for the Expo. Since the opening of the Shanghai World Expo, the 20 Expo female soldiers together with other 2000...

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“Expo of the world’s elite young grand” event will be held from July 4 to 18 in the Expo Park. More than 30 worldly well-known universities and over 2000 elite young people will gather in the Expo 2010 to perform a great music and cultural feast and interact with Chinese youth in no distance....

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In the New York World Expo 72 years ago, a container named “time capsule” which contained a letter that Einstein wrote to human being 5,000 years in the future and a number of items with characteristics of age was buried in a granite hole 15 meters under the Flushing Meadows in New York, which...

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Where will the energy resources come from in the future city? This is the common topic considered and discussed in the Expo 2010. In the Urban Best Practice Area Bremen Case, this German city brought three gaining and management modes of advanced energy. On the sea, a huge offshore wind turbine converts wind into...

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To construct the buildings able to rotate to get sunny solar, and to strive to build Europe’s largest solar water system …… Puglia Chief Executive Nichi Vendola introduced the environmental measures of Puglia on the opening ceremony of the Expo Puglia Exhibition Halls of Italian Pavilion. Interestingly, its environmental initiative is inspired by the...

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The inconvenience caused by the rainy day did not reduce the enthusiasm of visitors. In spite of the heavy rain yesterday, there were still nearly 500,000 visitors to visit the Expo. But reporters found that when people visited the Expo Park in the rain, there were still many small civilized details that need to...

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Today is the first anniversary of the death of the international pop star Michael Jackson, so Jackson fans at home and abroad gathered in Shanghai World Expo to hold a grand celebration in the International Development Network Information Center. In the spot of commemoration, Shanghai Madame Tussauds will display the precious collection of Jackson...

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As summer holiday is coming, the Expo visit ushers its climax. Some tour organizations or individuals who have no operation qualification take the opportunity to attract tourists to participate in “day trip”. Yesterday, the Municipal Tourism Bureau and the Culture and Auditing Bureau revealed that many travel agencies not only faked signs of the...

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As I entered the German Pavilion, stepped on the automatic escalator and into the tunnel, a romantic and mysterious trip to the German Pavilion began. The blending of light and shadow with each other formed a wonderful experience. Getting into the Germany production section, what came into my eyes is the fine idea. Every...

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This morning, the intelligent robot “PALRO” which can play Taijiquan (Chinese shadow boxing) and do sumo foot action debut on the JAL stage for the first time in the Shanghai World Expo Japan Industry Pavilion. He conducted an interact show with the popular group Morning Musume’s members Chun-chun, Lin-Lin, Xia Shaoya from Berryz workshops,...

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Yesterday afternoon, the 2nd France Romance – Tours Wedding in Expo” organized by the French city Tours took place at the spectacular music hall in Expo Cultural Centre. With Tours City Orchestra’s graceful music, the Brides and the Bridegrooms first presented spectacular performance such as romantic rumba, waltz and a beautiful song “Rosy Life”...

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Yesterday, the Shanghai World Expo held the donation ceremony of medical first aid kit to the exhibitor sections. The Shanghai Red Cross would provide exhibitors provided exhibitors with medical first aid kit as well as all the supplies free of charge through Shanghai World Expo Bureau. The number of the first batch of first...

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There were 40 different vacant masks exhibited in the “Public Space and Residents” of Mexico Pavilion, which represented 40 cities in Mexico. By watching the shape of the mask and watching the video through the eyes of the mask, visitors could observe from a different perspective and experience Mexico’s diverse lifestyles in public spaces....

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Japanese Animation played a key role in the J stage of Japanese Industry Pavilion yesterday, which also brought the most popularity of the Japanese Industry Pavilion since the Expo Park opened. Yesterday afternoon, the winners of the last world COSPLAY contest got on the J stage, and the China’s pre-selection contest was also held...

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Milan has always been known as the capital of leading fashion and design in the world. Influential Italian fashion designer Elio Fiorucci and interior designer Fabio Novembre took part in the “Testimonials in Creativity” Forum held on 17th June, who shared with the attendants their leadership and global influence in the field of fashion...

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Former French Minister of Culture, the French Music Festival founder Jacques Long announced on 17th June in the press conference held in Paris, that he would soon come to Shanghai to witness France’s “Summer Solstice Music Day” landing in China and into the Expo Park for the first time. He said that many music...

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If the Shanghai World Expo will select the “best exhibit,” I will vote for the ‘sheep square’ under the Netherlands Pavilion. Today is hot and it rains in the afternoon. As usual, the ‘sheep square’ becomes the best place that visitor to take a cover from the sunshine or rain. The staff of Netherlands...

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Food, magic, music, flamenco, queue-free visit…… All these are the considerate arrangements that the Spanish Pavilion specially makes for visitors who rushed to visit pavilions in the Expo Park. From 17:00 to 19:00 every day, the Spanish Pavilion’s Concert Hall regularly launches “passion of Spain” dinner and show which cost 298 Yuan. Visitors can...

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Municipal Health Bureau issued a Health Tip yesterday: recently, the temperature is increasing greatly, so the Expo visitors should beware of heat stroke. According to park medical station’s introduction, heat stroke mostly occurs between 12:00 to 18:00, which mainly occurs in the popular venues’ queuing area in Pudong Area A and Area C. Furthermore,...

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The printer can not only print on paper, but also print on the surface of any materials like glass, mirror, wood, stone and cloth, etc. Yesterday, the Russian Federation Novosibirsk Promotion Meeting was held in the Russian Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo, on which a new innovation – Nano printer exhibits attracted much...

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After the wax figure of “football genius” Wayne Rooney unveiled in the Expo, the British Pavilion of Shanghai World Expo ushered the wax figure of England football star David Beckham. At the same time, the wax figure of Buckingham Palace guard was also erected in the city park in the British Pavilion. These two...

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Yesterday afternoon, Italy Pavilion and Milan City government invited the Scala Chamber Orchestra and the little theater of Milan to perform in the Italian Pavilion. From today on, these two Italy’s top performance team will put on Italian culture shows for a week respectively in the little theater of Italy Pavilion, the Oriental Art...

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Yesterday, Shajiabang the famous town of the Jiangsu Province welcomed a group of special guests from the Shanghai World Expo from over 20 foreign countries. More than 50 museum curators and staff were invited to participate in the celebration of “Happy Chinese Festival — Expo in Dragon Boat Festival”, to experience the charm of...

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The archaeological and cultural exhibition sponsored by Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Greece on the theme of “Athens: the lively history”, opened at Shanghai Library last night, which aimed to further interpretation of the theme of Shanghai World Expo “Better City, Better Life” and interpretation of Greece Pavilion’s theme “POLIS: the Living City”....

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Today, the South African World Cup is opened at the other side of the earth. From today on, Expo Park starts to carry out the World Cup licensed merchandise sales which are based on the theme of “Experience the World Cup Charm as Visit Shanghai World Expo”. The temporary sales points of South Africa...

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