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Shanghai Party Secretary Yu Zhengsheng and other city government officials yesterday held talks with their Beijing counterparts to share the capital's experience in hosting grand events.
Shaolin and Wudang, two leading schools of Chinese martial arts, will both stage performances at the next year's Shanghai World Expo, offering a Kungfu gala for fans from around the globe.
A senior organizer of the 2010 World Expo today expressed appreciation for Hong Kong media's intensive coverage about the event.Hu said hosting the World Expo is a pride shared by all the Chinese. The HK-based television broadcaster will make special programs presenting a preview of the event, he said.
Organizers of the U.S. Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo said here Monday that fund-raising for the pavilion was going smoothly despite a one-third gap.
Ken Jarrett, chairman of the USA National Pavilion Board of Directors, and Jim McIlvenny, Dow senior vice president, sign the contract.Huang Jianzhi, deputy director general of the Bureau of Shanghai World Expo Coordination, said the pavilion has witnessed very rapid progress. He appreciated all corporations' contributions in the project.
"Expo City Star" Lu Zhi's love of the Giant Panda has seen her compared to English primatologist Jane Goodall, who gained fame by studying chimpanzee communities in Tanzania and other parts of Africa in the 1970s.
The hidden utopia described by famous poet Tao Yuanming from the Jin Dynasty (317-420) will surface in the form of a 600-sq-m pavilion to represent central China's Hunan province at next year's expo.
The Israel Pavilion will take the shape of a seashell with two parts hugging each other to illustrate the country's development "from creation to creativity" at the upcoming Shanghai Expo.
Ten giant pandas from southwest China's Ya'an breeding center will be brought to Shanghai and put on display during the 2010 Shanghai World Expo
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Little Mermaid moving to Shanghai for 2010 World Expo