Shanghai Expo - "A worthy symbol of today's China"

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    Shanghai Expo - "A worthy symbol of today's China"

    Post by patpending on Fri Apr 30, 2010 3:53 pm

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/7653619/The-Shanghai-Expo-is-a-worthy-symbol-of-todays-China.html

    Eight years of hard work have transformed the Expo site along the Huangpu River into a dazzling display of what is best in the
    architecture, art, science and technology of the world's nations. Two million young people have come forward to act as volunteers, and many are opening their homes to foreign guests so they can understand the lives and thinking of ordinary Chinese people.

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    Re: Shanghai Expo - "A worthy symbol of today's China"

    Post by ZTsteve on Fri Apr 30, 2010 5:15 pm

    Two million young people have come forward to act as volunteers, ...


    That's a lot of volunteers! Even considering the huge population of China - 1.3 billion or so and rising? - it's still a hell of a lot of people. Comparable to about 90,000 people in the UK.

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    Re: Shanghai Expo - "A worthy symbol of today's China"

    Post by patpending on Sun May 02, 2010 3:20 pm

    They showed the fireworks celebrations for the opening ceremony on the BBC News.

    Here's another impressive photo:


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