Special Report: Shanghai World Expo 2010 |
With a month to go before the World Expo 2010, Shanghai is looking to seize the limelight with promises of glitz and glamour for this year's World Exposition.
As the 2010 World Expo approaches, Shanghai is completing its makeover to jump-start the city's tourism push.
With a month to go before the World Expo 2010, Shanghai is looking to seize the limelight with promises of glitz and glamour for this year's World Exposition. |
During the past weekend, crowds of locals and tourists crowded the city's best known riverside promenade, the historic Bund, to witness its reopening and rebirth in time for the Expo.
Connie Cheng, Vice Director Shanghai Tourism Administration, said, "Barring the effects of last year's financial crisis, we feel that there will be a turnaround for the market in this new year. On the first day of this year, our national and municipal tourism officials announced to the world that 2010 is our World Expo tourism year. With the World Expo tourism year and its subsequent promotional activities, we are actively working on activities to attract 70 million visitors and we remain positive about reaching this target."
In order to impress an expected 70 million visitors, Shanghai's government is already splashing about more than 700 million U.S. dollars on renovating the Bund riverfront, and a whopping 45 billion U.S. dollars to upgrade transport and infrastructure.
A convoy of "Expo caravans" set off from Shanghai this month to tour neighboring regions and promote the World Expo to ordinary Chinese.
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