China's Application for Shanghai 2010 World Expo, an Inspiring Plan

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China's Application for Shanghai 2010 World Expo, an Inspiring Plan

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Mar.11 sees the miniatured location model for the Shanghai 2010 World Expo interpreted and displayed in the sophisticated Shanghai City Planning Exhibition Hall. The model gives a strong sense of three dimensions and transparency. The elliptic canal, green arcades and flowery bridge give an inspiring description of a bright morrow in the city development on both sides of the Huangpu River.

The model of the application plan is an epitomization of designs from eight famous companies of eight countries which is unique in designing conception and creation, says Yu Sijia, Expert of the Shanghai City Planning Bureau. The selected location and planning conception will give full display to the thematic topic - "city of a better life" to show off the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai.

The selection of location for the application of the World Expo in Shanghai has, as learned, been changed time and again with its finalized plan to be located at an old city district of Shanghai where the Huangpu River flows through. The planed area covers 5.4 square kilometers (not including the water surface of the Huangpu River). The main exhibition area is located on the east of the Huangpu River and the land-use is to occupy 240 hectares, in which will be built with the China Hall, States Exhibition Hall, Hall for Enterprises, and Comprehensive Hall as well as conference building and other buildings.

Should you give an overall view of the plan you'll find an ingenious conception of an elliptic canal and the construction of the halls for the World Expo to merge harmoniously into the development paces along with both sides of the Huangpu River. This has offered the river a new chance to return again into the embraces of the city. In addition, to the direct perpendicular of the Huangpu River are straps of arcades decorated with green plants, extending the green belts from along the river to the interior of the city. In exception of the greenness a giant span of a flowery bridge, extending some 400 - 500 meters long is going to stride over the Huangpu River for visitors to sightsee and loiter along, a symbolic built-up to link up the time-space of the past, the present and the future.

As the location for the application of the 2010 World Expo was chosen to be at the rim areas of the central city district it offers a convenient traffic in which the hotels, restaurants and other built-ups can be fully used, thus reducing the repetition in construction.

The International Exhibition Bureau has always been advocating that the holding of the World Expo will help promote the development of the city, especially the transformation of the old city district, said Wang Yijun, director in charge of the leading group of the application for the 2010 World Expo. The 2010 World Expo, if to be held in Shanghai, is right in the center of an actual city life. It is good for the transformation of an old city district as to its peripheral environment and construction of halls and areas, a full explanation to the thematic connotation in application for the holding of the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai. It is also a merger of multiple cultures, prosperity of a new city economy, a sci-tech creation in the city and a reflection of a harmonious life in the construction of an urban community.

Whoever has been to Shanghai knows well that the Huangpu River is the maternal river of Shanghai. Running from south to north it divides the city of Shanghai into two parts - the west and the east of the Huangpu River. The old city district permeating with the past rhythms south of the Yangtze River features a convergence of an exposition of buildings of various architectural styles at the Bund and the newly-booming financial and trade area at Lujiazui in the east of the Huangpu River. It is a condensed form of the vicissitudes of Shanghai in the past hundred years, a true depiction in the development of city economy and social life.

The two sides of the Huangpu River will be the emphasized areas for the transformation and reconstruction of an old city in the coming ten years or so, said Tang Zhiping, Deputy Director in charge of the City Planning Bureau. Should the 2010 World Expo be held in Shanghai it is sure to be a landmark of importance in the development history of Shanghai metropolis as the World Expo will push greatly forward the adjustment of industrial structure on both sides of the river. It will also help raise the quality in the transformation of the old city district and promote the improvement of biological environment and the forming of a public riverside, thereby bringing prosperity to the peripheral areas. In this aspect, the location of the 2010 World Expo will become a new city image of Shanghai following the emergence of the Bund and the Lujiazui new development area.

According to the plan, the 2010 World Expo will give full play to the advantage and superiority of the waterside areas by putting up groups of large-sized facilities in the service of culture, convention, exhibition, residence, and facilities for business, leisure-making and amusement, etc. All these facilities together with the green arcades and the canal will be kept on after the World Expo and further to be developed into a center for cultural exposition of importance and a featured residential area along the Huangpu River in Shanghai.

Backgrounder: World Expo and BIE

International Expositions are defined by the Bureau international des expositions / International bureau of expositions ( B.I.E ) as a forum for the exchange of information which fosters better understanding amongst people. Each nation is invited to share its ideas and to demonstrate the progress it has achieved on a theme determined by the exposition organizer.

The B.I.E., a Paris-based organization of 88 member nations, regulates the frequency and quality of international expositions. (More)

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