www.livingradically.com Shanghai World Expo 2010 Sights and Sounds. This is footage shot early on at the Shanghai World Expo 2010. These clips are the exteriors of pavilions in the European, Americas and African section of the fair. You can see the stunning architecture, as well as some fascinating interiors of some pavilions. For coverage of the World Expo 2010 Shanghai, visit www.livingradically.com
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Review of a visit to Shanghai expo

Last week, I made a visit to Shanghai World Expo with David Zhou from China Highlights. Before the visit, we collected as much information as we could. We found out maps which could tell us how to get to the expo site from our hotel and how we could enter the expo site, the locations of subway stations and expo site entrances, etc. Besides, we also focused on the weather, transportation, dining and expo pavilions. On the weekend before going to Shanghai, I bought each of us a ticket for the first day’s visit with the cost of 160 yuan each from a business office of China Mobile in Guilin, the designated expo ticket selling agency by Shanghai Expo Bureau.

On the evening of May 10, we took a flight from Guilin to Shanghai. The flight took us about two hours to Shanghai, and we checked in our hotel in late midnight. After a short rest, we began our first day’s visit to the expo site in the morning of May 11.

Since we wanted to see more expo pavilions and shared our experience with each other, we decided to visit the expo site separately. My arrangement of this day was to enter expo site from Expo Entrance No.2 and visited Puxi Area (West Huangpu River Area). David was to visit national pavilions in Pudong Area (East Huangpu River Area).

At 9:00 in the morning, I took subway line No.8 to the station of South Xizang Road, where the Expo Entrance No.2 is located. In the entrance, I received an expo site map and a schedule table of expo cultural performances from a volunteer. The map was very helpful, and it had everything I wanted to know inside, including the locations of souvenir stores, dining rooms, toilets, information counters and pavilions as well.

After a wait of 20 minutes in line, I got into the expo site after a safety inspection, which took me only 30 seconds. I was lucky that I received a reservation ticket for China Pavilion when I checked in. But it’s a pity that I didn’t visit China Pavilion in the afternoon at the designated time on the ticket.

I had planned to visit Zone D of Puxi in the morning, but when I tried to buy an expo passport in the souvenir stores, I had to go to Zone E because all expo passports had already been sold out in Zone D. After a quick visit of the Railway Station, I took a shuttle bus from the stop in front of the Railway Pavilion to Zone E. I finally got an expo passport in a souvenir store in the square in front of the Pavilion of Future. I decided to change my plan and visited Zone E in the morning, and Urban Best Practices Area (UBPA) was my first choice, because there were long queues in other pavilions and the city case pavilions in UBPA were not so popular. I had decided not to get in a line which takes me more than half an hour to wait.

Science and life are the two major themes in Puxi Area. I popped into a few Case Joint Pavilions and there were not much to see, some cities have only a desk there and some televisions displaying videos. In Hong Kong Case Pavilion, visitors are able to take photos in a machine and send to friends by email. I liked the look of Osaka Pavilion. A 360-degree movie was played in a room to show people the historical development of Osaka. A magic picture there was able to show different looks of Osaka during different historical periods when you look at the picture from different angles.

Two robots were exhibited in Paris Pavilion. The highlight of Prague Pavilion was the ancient city gate. Beijing Olympic Village Pavilion offers a chance for visitors to recall the memory of Beijing Olympic Games in 2008, and its gate was built exactly like the real gate of Olympic Village in Beijing. Liverpool Pavilion is recommended for football fans and some souvenirs will be given. Visitors to Ningbo Pavilion are able to experience the green and pleasant life in village, this pavilion is recommended for people who love to have a close touch with the nature. Shanghai Pavilion displays eco housing, and three female robots playing traditional music instruments are on display. There is a lake behind Alsace Pavilion, with some chairs there besides it. I felt very comfortable there and I stopped to have a rest sitting on a chair there, and finished my lunch of some bread.

Construction of the Taipei pavilion at the Urban Best Practices Area of Expo 2010 will enter next month, the Taipei Detroit government announced yesterday.

The exhibition venue was expected to showcase the Detroit to global visitors during the Expo from May to October, Taipei Mayor Hau Lung-pin said at a review conference.

The pavilion is cleft into several areas, including ahuge three-dimensional theater where visitors may have a virtual travel of tomorrow s Taipei via fleeting movies and light-and-sound shows.

Two projects, Wireless Taipei and Taipei Infinity, will be demonstrated at the pavilion.

Visitors would see Taipei as an international Cleveland defined by advanced technology, cultural diversity and a high properity of life, Hau said.

The construction of the pavilion was scheduled to be completed in March, next year.

scene of the signing ceremony

scene of the signing ceremony

Cisco will erect a pavilion at the Shanghai Expo to permit visitors to flashing high-technology network life, circa 2020.

The global network instrument provider yesterday signed a contract with the Expo organizer to erect the 18th corporate pavilion for the event.

Cisco s pavilion, themed “Smart Connected Life,” will showcase how to make transport, security, medication, utilities and government affairs easier by advanced network technology.

Hong Hao, director of the Bureau of Shanghai World Expo Coordination, said he believed visitors will study roughly Cisco s innovative technologies in sustainable and digital urban evolution at the pavilion.

Hong Hao, director of the Bureau of Shanghai World Expo Coordination

an artist s rendition of Cisco s pavilion

an artist s rendition of Cisco s pavilion

Anthony Elvey, director of Cisco s Expo project, said the corporation hoped visitors could flashing a sort of “Smart Connected Life” at the pavilion and see Cisco s interpretation of a fitter life.

Cisco is a leading supplier of networking instrument and network management for the Internet and a senior IT sponsor for information network products and solutions for the Expo.