[2010年上海世博会简介英文版.docVIP

In 2010, Shanghai will embrace the World Expo, a wonderful opportunity for China and a grand gathering for the world. The World Expo is a large-scale long-lasting highly-influential international exhibition in which a large number of countries and international organizations participate. The intergovernmental organization located in Paris, the Bureau International des Exposition, is responsible for regulating and managing the frequency and quality of world expositions. BIE currently has 152 member nations. Since London held the first world EXPO in 1851, these events have achieved a history of 157 years, from the initial stage of commodity display and exchange to the current promotion of new technologies and living ideas, World EXPOS have been actively responding to major issues in human development and serving as important platforms to promote world exchanging cooperation.  Many of society’s prevailing ideas and behaviors started with the World Expo. For example, the Eiffel Tower was a landmark built for France for its 1889 World Expo. And inventions like the light bulb, telephone, sewing machine, steam engine and escalator were all made public through the World Expos. Today World Expos have been increasingly becoming important stages for the world people to review history, exchange wisdom, cooperate and look forward. They are regarded as the Olympic events in the field of economy, culture, science and technology. Such events have long lasting and deep influences for the host nation’s economic and social development. Exhibition forms have been evolving for many years. In today’s World Expos, contents on display will set on the current EXPO theme, and venues will include theme pavilion, national pavilions, international organization pavilions, and corporate pavilions. EXPO participants can plan, design and build their pavilions according to their own cultural background and understanding of the EXPO theme. Theme pavilions are normally built by the host nat