KINSHASA - 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.

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Gilbert Mangenda Tshibangu, a journalist working with the daily newspaper Le Potentiel told Xinhua in an interview on Sunday. He has been invited by the Chinese government for the news coverage of the Shanghai World Expo.

"The Expo2010 will be an occasion for this economic giant to showcase her organizational capacity and also to show the world the journey that has been used by her people to get to a point of being considered an economic, scientific, technological and military giant today" he said.

"I first want to thank the Chinese government for the honor it has bestowed on me and the opportunity that it has given me by inviting me to this great festival where more than 50 countries of the world will showcase their cultural, scientific, industrial, agricultural and technological diversity with their latest technological inventions," he added.

Magenda said he is "very interested in the Chinese culture that dates back more than 5,000 years in history," and convinced that "it is because of this cultural force that China has managed to become one of the greatest economic power-houses."

He said he was "eager to learn the secrets of the Chinese boom through the Expo2010 because it takes only 30 years in China to achieve what other countries have not achieved in 200 years."

"China has already revolutionized the world more than 3,000 years ago with her four great inventions, some of which are still celebrated in the country like the gunpowder and others."

"But when we look back about 50 years ago, I would like to say that after the second world war, China did not have either an economy or a viable industry, and for her to be found among the great economic powers today, that shows dynamism which calls for her not only to be admired but also to be emulated," he stressed.

"I can imagine that for a period of one month from May 1, the city of Shanghai, the most populated in China, will be transformed into a city of exhibition, a world capital, where the latest inventions in the information technology which fascinates me very much will be exhibited," he added.

"I have no doubt about the success of Expo2010. The organization by this country of the latest edition of the Olympic Games in 2008, which was ranked higher than the previous five editions, was a statement that China has a working and organizational model to be emulated. Whoever is not with China today is missing a great evolution of the world," Mangenda said.

The Congolese journalist also expects to see during the Expo2010 "the Chinese experience in the protection of environment" in the common fight against global warming.

"That is very important to me because my own country, the Democratic Republic of Congo, is currently being affected by the climate change effects with floods being experienced from north to south and east to west," he said.