2010 World Exposition is being held on the both shore of Huangpu River in Shanghai, China during May 1st to October 31st. The theme of this expo is called "Better City, Better Life" which shows the Shanghai's status in the next generation of "World City". The logo of Shanghai Expo features the Chinese Character "世" (Means the world) which modified to represent three people as a family with 2010 in the bottom. It is the most expensive World Expo as well as it contains the world largest expo site at 5.28 square km. Haibao is the mascot of Shanghai Expo, it means the treasure of the ocean and it's also based on a Chinese character "人" (People).
After Shanghai won the bid to host the 2010 Expo in 2002. The city started to reshape it's river shoreline. The Expo site was set in between the Nanpu Bridge and Lupu Bridge along the the Huangpu River and this involved moving of 270 factories, including the Jiang Nan Shipyard (Restore to China Ship Pavilion). The Expo Park in Puxi (West of Huangpu River) consist of cooperate, organization and city pavilions. The area in Pudong mainly consist of national/regional pavilions and it's divided into Asia, Africa, American (North and South), Europe and Oceania (Pacific) sections.
192 countries and 50 organizations registered in the Shanghai World Expo and below is a list of all pavilions
Theme Pavilions:
Urban Footprints, Urban Planet, Urbanian, City Being, and Urban Future.
International Organizations/National/Regional Pavilions:
Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium-EU, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Brunei, Canada, Cambodia, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Czech, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Libya, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macao, Macedonia, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Monaco, Mongolia, Morocco, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, North Korea, Norway, Oman, Pacific Pavilion, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam and Yemen. (International Organization: United Nation, World Trade Organization, World Meteorological Organization, Red Cross and European Union)
Corporate Pavilions:
Aurora Pavilion, Broad Pavilion, China Aviation, China Railway, China State Shipbuilding Corporation Pavilion, Coca-Cola Pavilion, Cisco Pavilion, Information and Communication Pavilion, Oil Pavilion, Japanese Industry, PICC, Private Enterprises Joint Pavilion, Republic of Korea Business, SAIC-GM Pavilion, Shanghai Corporate Joint Pavilion, Space Pavilion, Space Home Pavilion, State Grid, and Vanke Pavilion.
Shanghai 2010 World Exposition Website: http://en.expo2010.cn/
Shanghai Expo Mascot (Haibao)
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