Expo Faces
Qian, 57, has worked as the executive deputy director of the China Pavilion since early last year, when he said goodbye to a less pressured life as a Party leader at the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum.
Tour guide spent one year crafting aerial view of the Expo Garden, Wu Yiyao reports.
Huaqiao International Business Service Park is the only provincial development area in China characterized by a dominant modern service industry. It will provide services for businesses in Shanghai and establish an outsourcing service base and a national financial outsourcing demonstration zone.
Wang Yujia, the 23-year-old pianist who local media have dubbed China's "Piano Princess", gave a concert at the Expo Center with Milan's Scala Philharmonic Orchestra earlier this month.
The Shanghai Expo's City Square Art Festival features over 20 pieces of street theater and gives visitors a way of "releasing the pressure caused by all the long queues," said Lee Liheng, the festival's director.
The 53-year-old senior supervisor at the Bureau of Shanghai World Expo Coordination and his 50 colleagues are stationed in the Expo Garden to maintain order in front of 23 pavilions in Zone A and B, including Japan and Saudi Arabia pavilions.
Remember the fun you had with soap bubbles when you were a kid? Well, it seems like Pep Bou just can't seem to let it go. So much so that the Spanish artist has created the world's only Soap Bubble Theater.
Controversial Taiwan writer Li Ao found time to pray for cross-Straits peace at the Taiwan Pavilion recently as he returned to the mainland for only the second time in his life to visit the Expo 2010 Shanghai.
Thanks to the Spanish Pavilion, two of the country's top female chefs have been invited to town. With a total of five Michelin stars between them, Elena Arzak and Fina Puigdevall will be cooking up a treat in Shanghai.
Even more than the weight of some 475 pins that Tatsuo Kamon has collected is the weight of recollected friendship.
