Global search for Chengdu \’Pambassador\’

The global Pambassador initiative is released in the Chengdu Pavilion.


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Beijing beckons Expo visitors with free tickets

Visitors on the Beijing Pavilion are certain to get free tickets and a visit instruct for some belonging to the capital\\’s imperial gardens and parks through a week-long promotion from Wednesday.



The pavilion will hand out 1,000 to 1,500 types of tickets and guidebooks every day. The promotion coincides with the Beijing Imperial Gardens & Parks Festival which could run from Wednesday to October 30.



Beijing is home to some historical and imperial gardens and parks, this sort of thinking of the summer months Palace, Beihai Park and Yuanmingyuan Garden.


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Expo fever beats heat wave





Shanghai\\’s document high temps wave in 137 many years failed to deter expo visitors whose quantity reached 328,000 yesterday.



A glaring sun drove the temps to 39.8 degrees Celsius through the operating day before a thunderstorm in the past due afternoon cooled lower the temperature.



It was the fourth consecutive operating day while using mercury reaching above 39 degrees, creating it the hottest summer period in Shanghai because the city commenced to have a climate record, the Shanghai Meteorological Bureau said.



Among yesterday\\’s visitors, 98,200 proved up in tour groups and 41,738 were regional citizens who used complimentary ticket provided by the Municipal Government. A complete of 55,195 ticket were marketed to the gates, 25,224 of these for evening visit.



As of 6pm, 62,000 visitors experienced passed through Houtan entrance, compared with 48,000 at Shangnan Road entrance, 58,000 at Changqing Road entrance and 41,000 at Gaoke Road W. entrance.



Some 7,485 volunteers worked to the site and the five on-site clinics treated 431 visitors by 4pm yesterday. Eighteen of these suffered minor injuries and 71 suffered sunstroke.



The expo Organizer expects some 113,500 group visitors today.



All enjoyment activities to the expo site were cancelled yesterday to observe a nationwide mourning for your sufferers who died in landslides in Zhouqu County, Gansu Province. All flags to the expo venues were flying at half-staff and all history music was turned off. The Gansu Pavilion held a mourning ceremony.


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HK pavilions record 2 million visits





Visitors on the Hong Kong Pavilion and Hong Kong exhibition at the Urban very best methods location (UBPA) totalled 2 million dollars yesterday.



\\”Since the two internet websites are operating smoothly, our top concern now could possibly be to retain in the team\\’s spiritr and maintain a greater level of support to our visitors as a way that they’ve a pleasant, memorable experience,\\” said Patrick Chan, Hong Kong\\’s commissioner for expo 2010.



A five-day Hong Kong 1 week will launch on October 18 at the Baosteel Stage from the expo site. A variety of performances by renowned artists and troupes will delight the audiences, Chan said.



The Hong Kong Pavilion focuses on the distinctive administrative region\\’s advanced transport network, technological facilities, economic and trade systems, multicultural society, and sustainable high-quality urban life.



Hong Kong\\’s UBPA showcase highlights the creative use of wise card technology. Visitors can uncover how creative wise cards have designed life convenient in Hong Kong.


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Magnificent Marshalls

Senator Michael M. Kabua of Marshall Islands handles the ceremony.


Senator Michael M. Kabua of Marshall Islands handles the ceremony. ... read more

Online winners enjoy VIP tours at Expo


Ten those who visited the net us Pavilion at www.expo.com are given a VIP visit pass.


Ten those who visited the net us Pavilion at www.expo.com are given a VIP visit pass.




The gift bundle consists of a Teddy bear and souvenirs belonging to the us Pavilion.


The gift bundle consists of a Teddy bear and souvenirs belonging to the us Pavilion.




VIP visit pass


VIP visit pass






Ten those who visited the net us Pavilion at www.expo.com have been given a VIP visit belonging to the actual a single yesterday after winning the pavilion\\’s VIP access in an online fortunate draw.



Each of them received a gift bundle containing a Teddy bear and souvenirs belonging to the us Pavilion. They have been also dealt with to hamburgers and fries.



Zhang Huizhu, a Shanghai resident, was amongst the luckiest belonging to the group as her spouse and daughter also won the fortunate draw to visit the us Pavilion out of tens of thousands of participants. \\”Our first reaction was the truth that system had a glitch until we received a confirmation call from the staff,\\” she said.



Zhu Xiaoqing, a Netizen of Shanghai, won a VIP vacation for the Norway Pavilion on Friday via a comparable fortunate draw. His gifts included enterance ticket for technique Garden\\’s concert in Shanghai in September.


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Expo grieves for Gansu

In the Pavilion of Public Participation, customers gather to fold cardstock cranes, a common symbol of good wishes, to shell out tribute for your lives lost in the disaster.


In the Pavilion of Public Participation, customers gather to fold cardstock cranes, a common symbol of good wishes, to shell out tribute for your lives lost in the disaster. ... read more

Essays wanted





Shanghai expo organizers will start an essay writing contest this Sunday. The public is encouraged to submit essays reflecting their views and ideas regarding the event in inclusion to their impression regarding the host city.



Submission deadline is October 15. Essays should be emailed to zhengwen2010@expo2010.gov.cn. much more details are provided at www.expo2010.cn.


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Bravos for Bolivia

Bolivia celebrates its National Pavilion morning hours today.



The type of the Bolivia Pavilion is \\”Urban Communities residing Well.\\” Films, interactive media, exhibits, and photos describe history, culture, the economy, urban development, the natural environment and tourism.


performance at the ceremony


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Shaanxi Pavilion celebrates Qixi Festival


Actors cosplaying Emporer Xuanzong (center) and his consort Yang Yuhuan stamp a visitor’s document.


Actors cosplaying Emporer Xuanzong (center) and his consort Yang Yuhuan stamp a visitor’s document.




Actors of the Shaanxi Pavilion invite visitors to join their Qixi activities.


Actors of the Shaanxi Pavilion invite visitors to join their Qixi activities.









Emporer Xuanzong (685-762) and his consort Yang Yuhuan (719-756) of the Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD), historical figures cosplayed by pavilion staff, invite visitors to celebrate the Qixi festival in the Shaanxi Pavilion from nowadays to August 16.



This shall be the biggest cultural function of the pavilion because its opening. throughout the three days, visitors can experience various programmes such because the conventional wedding of the Tang era along while using Qixi Festival vows of Xuanzong and Yang Yuhuan, apart from that as a Shannxi art troupe performance.



The event, co-organised by the Shaanxi government along while using Shannxi Tourism business Group, is based regarding the beauty of Huangqing Pool, a popular hotspring where the queen consort once bathed, and aims to hold on and revive Chinese conventional culture.



The Qixi Festival, which falls regarding the seventh day of the seventh lunar 30 days regarding the Chinese calendar, may be also known as \\”the evening of sevens\\” or Chinese Valentine’s Day. star says that the separated couple, Niu Lang and Zhi Nv, who lived on different sides of the galaxy, will complement again every twelve months on this day while using help of millions of magpies. The couple\\’s love tale moved a huge number of people, such as Xuanzong and Yang Yuhuan.



A popular Tang Dynasty poet, Bai Juyi (772-846), published a poem regarding the Qixi Festival as a witness to the love of the emperor and his consort.



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