24/10/10 - EXPO 2010 surpassed today its target number of 70 million visitors, one week before its closing day.

On October 16th, Expo Shanghai received a record number of one million visitors in a single day, breaking the record of the highest single-day visitor number as well as highest total number of visitors at an Expo up until now.  Both records were previously set by Expo '70 in Osaka, Japan,  which received a total of over 64 million visitors.