Shanghai began clearing 2.6 square kilometres along the Huangpu River that involved moving 18,000 families and 270 factories, including the Jiang Nan Shipyard, which employs 10,000 workers. More than $48 billion was spent for the preparation, more than the cost of cleaning up Beijing in the preparations for the Olympics in 2008. Īfter winning the bid to host the Expo in 2002, Shanghai began a monumental task to reshape the city. The area of the Expo 2010 covers 5.28 km 2. The site of the event was the Nanpu Bridge– Lupu Bridge region in the center of Shanghai along both sides of the Huangpu River. Besides, the Shanghai World Expo Coordination is founded for the daily affairs of the Executive Committee. The Organising Committee set up an Executive Committee which is responsible for the execution and management of expo affairs. In 2004, the Chinese central government established the Shanghai World Expo Organising Committee as the organization dedicated to host the event. Yeosu later won the bid to host Expo 2012, a three-month specialized world expo.ġ32nd Meeting of the Bureau of International Expositions ģ December 2002, in Prince's Palace of Monaco, Monte Carlo, Monaco Shanghai scored the highest in each of the four rounds of voting at the 132nd Meeting of the Bureau of International Expositions in Prince's Palace of Monaco, Monte Carlo, Monaco, with Yeosu, South Korea maintaining second place. In 1910, the Qing dynasty decided to host China's first fair with the Nanyang industrial exposition. Unofficial participation in fairs outside China have happened since 1851. Many scholars have written about the possibility and made suggestions in books. Shanghai has been one of the main cities envisioned to host the expos for some time. On 16 October 2010, the expo set a single-day record of over 1.03 million visitors. īy the end of the expo, over 73 million people had visited – a record attendance – and 246 countries and international organizations had participated. The Shanghai World Expo was also the largest World's Fair site ever at 5.28 square km. It had the largest number of countries participating and was the most expensive Expo in the history of the world's fairs. The Expo emblem features the Chinese character 世 ('world', Chinese 'shì') modified to represent three people together with the 2010 date. The theme of the exposition was 'Better City – Better Life' and signifies Shanghai's new status in the 21st century as the 'next great world city'. It was a major World Expo registered by the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE), in the tradition of international fairs and expositions, the first since 2005. Tiong-kok 2010-Nî Siōng-hái Sè-kài Phok-lám-hoēĮxpo 2010, officially the Expo 2010 Shanghai China, was held on both banks of the Huangpu River in Shanghai, China, from 1 May to 31 October 2010. Zung 1gwok 3 2010-Nin 4 Soeng 6hoi 2 Sai 3gaai 3 Bok 3laam 5wui 6*2 Tson 平koh 入 2010-Nyie 平 Zaon 去he 上 Sy 去ka 去 Poh 入lae 上we 去Ĭhûng-koet 2010-ngièn Sông-hói Sṳ-kie Pok-lám-fi

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