China Gives Last Shot for World Expo 2010 Bid

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China Gives Last Shot for World Expo 2010 Bid

Chinese representatives said in Monaco Tuesday that Shanghai is confident of holding a successful world exposition in the year 2010 if the city wins the bid to host the event.

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Chinese representatives said Tuesday that Shanghai is confident of holding a successful world exposition in the year 2010 if the city wins the bid to host the event.

Presenting bidding ideas and plans at the ongoing 132nd general assembly of the Bureau of International Expositions (BIE) in Monte Carlo, Chinese Vice Premier Li Lanqing said Shanghai embodies China's desire to integrate with the international community.

"With its robust economy, sound infrastructure, clean environment and social stability, Shanghai is a thriving metropolis where the past meets the future and East meets West," he said.

By any standard, Li told 89 member countries of the BIE, Shanghai stands out as an ideal site for World Expo 2010.

BIE stands for understanding, exchange, cooperation and friendship, Li said. "These qualities can be fully realized by holding the World Expo in China, a nation that believes in harmonyand mutual benefit. If approved, we will make further contributionto the world development, by promoting cultural exchanges and providing participants with greater business opportunities," he said.

On behalf of the Chinese bidding city, Shanghai Mayor Chen Liangyu said his city will earmark 100 million US dollars to attract the widest participation. "The fund will be used to offer full financial assistance to the least developed countries and provide subsidies to the developing countries," he said.

As head of China's national commission on bidding to host the world event, Wu Yi said more and more investors turn to China for its vast market, more and more tourists come to China for its time-honored, splendid culture, and more and more foreigners become friends of China for its honest, warm-hearted people. "If we are chosen, we will prove with our hard work and wisdom that you have made the right choice," she told the meeting.

At the meeting on Tuesday, representatives from BIE's 89 member states are expected to vote on a host city to be chosen from amongShanghai, Moscow, Queretaro of Mexico, Poland's Wroclow and Yeosu of the Republic of Korea after China's presentation in the afternoon.

Before the decisive voting, the other four candidate countries also made presentations in a last-ditch effort to win the bid to host the World Expo 2010. Final voting results will be announced at around 1400 GMT.

Source: Xinhua News Agency

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