Big Talk
Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan said Friday the Shanghai World Expo, with the theme "Better City, Better Life," would usher in new ways of life for people and contribute to the promotion of harmony among mankind, cities and nature.
The Shanghai World Expo will be a wonderful opportunity for China, Britain and the world to celebrate common humanity and common achievements, according to China's ambassador to Britain.
The Shanghai World Expo 2010 will be another masterpiece which China presents to the world after successfully hosting the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008, a Singapore business leader has said.
The world economy is slowly recovering from the global economic downturn but the comeback has been shadowed by the debt crisis in Europe.
China will be once again "on the international spotlight" after the opening of the Shanghai World Expo on May 1, a journalist in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) claimed ahead of the event to catch eyes after the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
As the first World Expo ever hosted by a developing country, the Shanghai World Expo will open a new chapter in the history of such events, China's ambassador to the United Nations Office in Geneva said on Monday.
In the country with the world's largest number of netizens, the Shanghai World Expo organizer has high awareness to amplify the Expo's influence through the Internet.
I hope Shanghai will continue to be a leading city in China and an international economic, financial, trade and shipping center.
The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) finalized the preparations to join Shanghai Expo 2010 exhibition in China that begins on early may and ends on late October, a PNA official told Xinhua in a special interview.
The Lord Mayor of Brisbane, Campbell Newman, said the World Expo that Brisbane held in 1988 "has truly changed the city for ever".
