China Travel 2.0

Interview with Nick Winslow, the spokesperson for the 上海世博会： Shanghai World expo 2010’s U.S. Pavilion:
After watching Beijing bask in the glory of the 2008 Summer Olympics, Shanghai has jumped into the fray by hosting the 2010 World Expo, which opened on May 1 and runs for six months. Nick Winslow, president of the company that designed, [...]

Shanghai expo 2010 Turns Spotlight on Nations
HONG KONG — Two years ago, athletes from more than 190 countries came together in Beijing, vying for international acclaim on basketball courts and balance beams at the Summer Olympics. Now, a rematch of sorts is occurring in Shanghai — but this time, the competitors carrying their national flags [...]

U.S. sends former top diplomat to Shanghai expo
WASHINGTON, June 29 (Xinhua) — The White House said Tuesday U.S. President Barack Obama has announced the designation of a Presidential Delegation led by former secretary of state Madeleine Albright to Shanghai, china, to attend U.S.A. National Day at Expo 2010 Shanghai.
The U.S. Pavilion in the Shanghai Expo [...]

Shanghai World’s Fair whets Chinese desire to see U.S. the World
SHANGHAI – The Chinese are coming.
That’s the take-away message from Shanghai expo 2010, the latest world’s fair. Today, they’re at the fair. In coming years, they might be shopping in Dallas.
These expositions are typically a place to glimpse life in other countries and peer into [...]

Shanghai expo Attendance Tops 20 Million in First Two Months
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
July 1, 2010 (Bloomberg) — Attendance at Shanghai’s $44 billion World Expo was more than 20 million in the fair’s first two months, and organizers expect an increase in visitors during the summer holiday.
There were a record 553,500 visitors on June 26, according [...]

上海世博会 Shanghai expo Gets 560,000 Visitors in Three Days
Shanghai’s $44 billion World Expo, visited by more than half a million people in its first three days, added doctors and sprayed mist on walkways as long queues and high temperatures left dozens suffering from heat stroke.
More than 131,000 visitors streamed into the Expo park on the [...]

上海世界博览会: Shanghai marks comeback with World expo extravaganza
SHANGHAI (AP) – A proud Shanghai threw open the gates of the 2010 World Expo on Saturday, kicking off an event that underscores the Chinese financial hub’s comeback as a major world city after decades of spartan industrialism following the 1949 communist revolution.
Like the 2008 Olympics, the World Expo [...]

上海世界博览会:Enjoy Shanghai World expo Experience on the Internet
SHANGHAI — Expo Shanghai Online, an innovative feature of Expo 2010 Shanghai, will officially go live on May 1, the Bureau of Shanghai World Expo Coordination announced on Thursday.
The bilingual website, http://www.expo.cn, which appears in both English and Chinese, offers a 3D virtual tour of the Expo Garden [...]

上海世界博览会: World expo Offers Shanghai a Turn in the Spotlight
SHANGHAI — The World’s Fair may have lost the luster it brought decades ago to world capitals like Paris. But china has dusted off the concept in an attempt to give its second city, Shanghai, the same coming-out party that the 2008 Summer Olympic Games were for [...]