Shanghai Expo 2010 Overview
May 1 – October 31, 2010
At a time when more than half of the world’s population lives in urban environments, China and Shanghai will welcome for six months next year an estimated 70 million visitors and close to 250 participating governments, international organizations, and NGOs to their World Exhibition on the quality of life in cities.
A booming cosmopolitan city in the most populous country in the world, undergoing one of the most dramatic economic expansions of our age, Shanghai’s engagement takes part of a worldwide mobilization to create cities that are better equipped to meet the challenges of our urbanized age.
With its understanding of the needs of developing nations, China, through the Expo, aspires to serve as a bridge between the developed world and the developing world. Lacking the resources to cope with the scale and pressures of urbanization, developing countries are most severely affected by it. China’s goal for the Expo is to provide a global rallying point for innovation in urban best practices to be shared by all.
EXPO Shanghai 2010 – Better City, Better Life will invite the international community to re-evaluate the way we live in cities and to act upon the full potential of urban life in the 21st century as humanity faces a historic turning point: more than half of the global population is concentrated in cities and towns, with the majority living in Asia and Africa.
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