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January 23, by the Zhejiang Provincial Tourism Bureau, Jiaxing Municipal Government, Shanghai Municipal People’s Government Development Research Center, Shanghai World Expo Coordination Bureau, Shanghai Municipal Tourism Bureau, Shanghai Municipal People’s Government office of cooperation and exchange and co-host Jiaxing Municipal Bureau of Tourism of Zhejiang Province in 2010 China Expo-tourism tour opening ceremony was held in Jiaxing City.

Vice Governor of Zhejiang Province Wang Man, Zhao Jinyong Zhejiang Tourism Bureau, Zhejiang Provincial Government, deputy director of the General Office of Ji-Jian Xie, Jiaxing party secretary Chen Derong, Mayor Li Wei Ning, Xu Shizhen, director of Municipal People’s Congress, Municipal CPPCC Chairman Liu-sheng, Municipal Committee, vice mayor of Yang-Sheng, deputy director of Shanghai Municipal Tourism Bureau Miss Cheng Meihong, cooperation and exchange office of the Shanghai Municipal Government inspectors, the Yangtze River Delta Urban Economic Coordination Office, Mr. Hu Yalong, the Shanghai Municipal Government Development Research Center Deputy Director Mr.

Zhou Guoping, the Shanghai World Expo Bureau of the original Deputy Director, the domestic exhibitors, as well as consultants Huang Yaocheng 12 cities of Zhejiang Province (including Yiwu) tourism bureau, the Yangtze River Delta tour to experience the Expo theme of cooperation projects in thematic working groups responsible person of the Yangtze River Delta Tourism Distribution Center Union, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, etc.

Ticket to the Expo as well as the designated travel agency departments responsible Jiaxing, Jiaxing county, city, district government, Jiaxing City, tour the Expo theme of experience, starting groups, Jiaxing City Tourism Expo volunteers to participate in the launching ceremony of about 500 people.

Recently, the Shanghai World Expo will be a “green travel” carbon calculator and transport cards officially released, played a “Green Travel Expo,” a series of activities at the Expo-year overtures.

The release of “World Expo Green travel” carbon calculator by the project sponsor and the People’s Network through the special analysis and design of the Olympic Games in Beijing, green travel carbon calculator, based on the further escalation of the refined launched. This calculator has seven kinds of language ability, directly to the audience to visit the Expo trip each way to calculate the carbon dioxide emissions, lead the public to choose low-carbon living and transportation.

Carbon accounting is to achieve a “green travel, low-carbon Expo,” an important link, and only to first understand the carbon emissions of each trip in order to be aware of in order to provide a basis for further emission reductions. “Expo Green travel” carbon calculator to help calculate the carbon emissions of carbon emissions while providing advice and assistance to achieve carbon-neutral. Users in the “green travel” official website (http://www.cleanair.net.cn/) on the registration is not only able to calculate the emissions of a single trip to better calculate the accumulated weekly, monthly and annual emissions, to help the user an accurate picture of carbon emissions for each trip, choose low-carbon modes of transportation.

On the same day debut release, “Green Travel Expo” traffic card is a limited edition to commemorate the transport card, utility function is no different from ordinary traffic card letter, the card face design implies a “green travel to see the World Expo”, together with the World Expo and the “Green travel” sign, with collectible value. In addition, the project organizers will work with co-organized by Shanghai Municipal Public Transport Group, “World Expo Green Travel Transportation Card Design Competition”, public-oriented collection of green travel transportation Kaka surface design will be based on peer-reviewed following the award-winning design made into series “World Expo Green Travel “traffic card issued to the society, and guide people to actively adopt a” green “way to travel for the” Low Carbon Expo “and make contributions.

Expo News Network January 25

Belgian exhibitors to this year’s World Expo in Shanghai believe that the Expo will give a substantive boost to the development of the world, Belgium’s commissioner for the Expo said Monday.
The influence of the World Expo in Shanghai would not only be in terms of technology but also of concepts, Leo Delcroix said in an interview with Xinhua.
Delcroix will head more than 100 exhibitors from Belgium which hosted the 1958 Brussels World Expo, the first after World War II.
Delcroix, who has enthusiastically promoted the participation of Belgian companies in the Expo, said China’s market is 100 times the size of Spain’s. He also noted the “formidable” changes that have taken place in China in all these years.
An atmosphere of prosperity and hope, key to a successful world exposition, will also be helpful to the development of the world economy, Delcroix said.
This year’s world exposition in Shanghai is expected to draw between 70 million and 80 million visitors from around the world, while the 1958 Expo in Brussels attracted some 40 million visitors.
Delcroix, a former defense minister of Belgium, said humanity would progress better if people have beliefs and enthusiasm in things.
The delegation chief briefed Xinhua about the highlights of the Belgian exhibitors.
In the Belgian pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo, there will be a “Diamond Corner” and a “Chocolate Corner” to showcase the country’s prowess in these spheres.
Delcroix said that during the six-month exposition Belgians would also host 150 seminars and conferences in the host city.
He added that Belgian king Albert II or the crown prince, and several government ministers would visit the World Expo in Shanghai in a bid to draw potential investors to Belgium.
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Leading media in Shanghai including Shanghai Daily will start airing 100 celebrities’ visions of the 2010 World Expo from tomorrow, the 100-day countdown to the grand event.
The project, called “100 celebrities worldwide talking about Expo 2010” is being organized by the Information Office of the Shanghai Municipal Government, the Bureau of Shanghai World Expo Coordination, the Shanghai Institute for International Studies, Jiefang Daily and Wenhui Daily.
One hundred international and domestic figures from various walks of life are invited to share their visions about “Better City, Better Life” and convey their expectations and wishes for the Expo.
Jiefang Daily, Wenhui Daily, Shanghai Daily, the International Shanghai Channel, the Website for the Information Office of Shanghai Municipality, the official Website for Expo 2010 and Eastday.com all participated in the drive.
Books collecting all celebrities’ words will also be issued in Chinese and English.
The list includes Singapore’s veteran politician and Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew, former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, World Health Organization Director-General Margaret Chan Fung Fu-chun, Hong Kong film star Jackie Chan, NBA star Yao Ming and Olympic hurdle champion Liu Xiang.
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Construction has been finished on the joint pavilion of Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation and General Motors, with an exterior cloaked in 4,000 recycled aluminum panels giving a smooth and seamless appearance.

The panels are of slightly different sizes, tilted at angles and cambers. Advanced technologies used in car manufacturing were applied to position them.

The applications included modeling, metallic painting and emendation, which are similar to the technologies applied in making car panels.

The pavilion recently received the Most Excellent Public Building Prize from the Architectural Society of Shanghai for its unique design concept, elaborate construction process, and human and environmentally friendly facilities. It was the only corporate pavilion of Expo 2010 to receive the award.

Interior decoration and exhibition testing have started. The first batch of the pavilion’s souvenirs will go on sale at www.our2030.com late this month.

Online application to visit the pavilion will start in March.
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Former French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin learns about the master plan of the 2010 Expo.

Former French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin said today he hoped the France Pavilion would remain after the 2010 Expo to promote Sino-French long-term cultural exchanges.

Raffarin represented France to confirm the country’s participation in the 2010 Expo in 2005, the first country to do so.

He invited Chinese people to visit his Blog at www.carnetjpr.com, which has a Chinese version, at a press conference in Shanghai today, and said he would write stories about the Expo.

Sino-French ties are not only limited to political and economic fields, but culture as well, he said.

The former prime minister will visit the Expo site during the event. He told reporters that Le Figaro, a French daily newspaper, would organize a readers’ group to the Expo site in June.

Some French schools are also preparing a similar visit to promote Chinese study for their students, he revealed.

France will celebrate its pavilion’s national day by hosting a music festival.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy is set to visit the 2010 World Expo site in the first half of this year, Raffarin said.

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