Floating thoughts

Netizens at Douban.com, a popular lifestyle portal among young people in China, keep a "floating" Expo journal. As one visitor completes his or her journal on visiting the Expo Garden, be it a diary, a poem, a photo or an illustration, he or she passes it to another visitor. The "floating" Expo journal has attracted hundreds of netizens who have visited the Expo Garden. A school teacher from Singapore wrote her tips for visiting the Expo Garden; a visitor from Malaysia wrote "tenmakasih" (Malay for thank you); a girl from Guangdong province left a postcard which reads: "Love in my heart" .

WHY.COM.CN

Fashionable field

The Expo Garden is a great place for fashionable women. It displays a variety of dresses, accessories and even toys. Exhibitions bring people close to the world's top luxury brands and ethnic costumes worn by performers from the various pavilions inspires the fashion conscious to tailor their own creations. For young girls, dolls and cartoon figures will please them. The Expo Garden exhibits authentic and quality products, which inspires women to follow a quality lifestyle and drags them away from fake brands.

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Eco-learning

Expo 2010 Shanghai helps raise local residents' awareness to protect the environment. By visiting Expo Garden, Shanghai residents are inspired to change their habits to lead a low-carbon lifestyle. Statistics show that an increasing number of residents are renting bicycles to commute to work instead of driving or taking a taxi. School students are learning gardening to green their campuses and homes. More than 10 million milk cartons have been recycled since a green scheme was promoted in the Expo Garden.

EASTDAY.COM

(China Daily 07/30/2010 page38)