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Investment for the 2010 Shanghai World Expo will be fully audited and open to public supervision, Shanghai mayor Han Zheng said at a government press conference, Xinhua reported Monday.
Man's best friend is likely to be terrorists' worst enemy this summer courtesy of a police dog detachment dealing with emergencies and other Expo-related threats, similar to the team employed two years ago for the Olympics in Beijing.
Visitors will get the chance to zip around the Expo site on some environmentally minded wheels starting in May.
Local government bodies and service industries are organizing services in both Chinese and English to make life easier for Expo tourists this spring.
Mayor Han Zheng yesterday called on the city's residents to wait and visit the exhibition pavilions at the Expo site after the event ends, so as to make room for more visitors from outside the city.
Enterprises within 300 km of Shanghai in the Yangtze River Delta will be subject to production control during the six-month World Expo if the city's air quality falls below standards.'Let foreigners go to Expo first'
Shanghai should make sure the 2010 World Expo is a success and transform the city's economy, while improving people's living standards, social harmony and stability, Mayor Han Zheng said yesterday.
New Zealand's team finally unveiled the country's Expo 2010 pavilion's exhibition design - a dream-like journey about the Maori story of creation.
Construction of projects at Expo park in Shanghai is progressing smoothly and rapidly, with the park's landscape "ever changing", organizers of the cultural gala said Wednesday.
Haiti has reconfirmed to attend the Shanghai 2010 World Expo after the massive earthquake half a month ago, the Bureau of Shanghai World Expo Coordination said Wednesday.
