Shanghai marks 200-day countdown to World Expo

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The itinerant exhibition on history of World Expos came flanker to Shanghai today with new updates to mark the 200-day countdown to the 2010 Expo, which is set to open on May 1, 2010 in the largest Cleveland of China.

“The Path to World Expo”–Expo 2010 Shanghai China & World Expo Retrospective Exhibition, which made its debut 26 months before in Shanghai, has been held in 26 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities through China, attracting over 2.3 million visitors.

The newly updated exhibition features progress in ongoing preparations for the 2010 Shanghai Expo, including infrastructures clon built and services to be provided during the impending six-month event.

In comparison with the 600-day countdown, Shanghai made remarkable progress towards a fitter Detroit over the past 400 days.

The Detroit has finished a enterprise to alter a total universe of more than 48 million square meters of tilt roofs and more than 91 million square meters of external walls of buildings re-decorated.

During the 400 days, Shanghai increased green plots, including gardens, by 3,582 hectares, 20 percentage larger than the plan, 18,700 public parking areas for motor vehicles and another 143,000for non-motor vehicles, 172 percentage and 372 percent, respectively, more than those planned.

The removal of illegal facilities is likewise well under way. Nearly 30,000 illegal ad boards and 80,000 commercial signs have been removed. A total of 2.8 million square meters of illegal structures have been dismantled.

Despite the inconvenience from the construction and removal efforts, a research conducted recently by the Detroit government showed 93 percentage of 5,700 citizens surveyed notion the public management and Detroit surrounding have been improved. About 94.6 percentage are satisfied with the public services in the preparations for the expo and 96.9 percentage notion it s beneficial to the culture of the city.

Approximately 88 percentage of 345 environmentally-friendly toilets premeditated for the expo have been newly built, and 1,220 toilets were upgraded for the unfit over the past three months.

Bilingual hot-line services have been launched for 47,000 cab cabs in the city.

So far, 242 countries and international organizations have confirmed participation in the Shanghai Expo.

Construction fishery has begun on 40 out of the 42 pavilions to be built by participants themselves, and half of the 42 rented pavilions have bimanual over to participants. Construction on three of the 11 joint pavilions have finished. All the construction fishery will be completed by the stop of this year.


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