The opening ceremony of the survey.

A survey on visitor’s conduct kicked off in Expo Site?on Sunday's?morning in Shanghai, August 1, 2010.

Up to 4,000 questionnaires will be distributed at 50 survey stations.

To operate the World Expo in a civilized manner will certainly help promote visitors' good conduct in the site, said Yang Zhenwu, minister of the Publicity Department of the CPC Shanghai Committee.

Yang also thanked organizers and staff for organizing this survey. He wished the survey a complete success.

During the ceremony, leaders distributed the name plaques to survey staff members.

Ma Chunlei, director of city's Social Ethics Office and deputy minister of the Publicity Department of the CPC Shanghai Committee, Chen Anjie, deputy Party secretary of the Bureau of Shanghai World Expo Coordination, and Miao Guoqin, Party secretary of Wenhui-Xinmin United Press Group, unsealed the questionnaires during the ceremony.

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The bureau joined hands with city's Social Ethics Office and Xinmin Evening News to organize the survey and evaluation in an attempt to further improve the Expo operation.

Hong Hao, director of the Bureau of Shanghai World Expo Coordination, Wu Zhilin, Party secretary of Xinmin Evening News and the newspaper's Editor-in-chief Chen Baoping also attended the ceremony.