Shanghai Expo 2010
Posted by max on April 29, 2010
Shanghai’s Expo 2010 will officially open this Saturday, 1th o May. The investment is almost 59 billion dollars, more than was spent on the Beijing Olympics. The theme is “Better City, Better Life”. This important evente will attract up to 100 million visitors, 95 percent of them Chinese
A general fiew of Shanghai and the Huangpu River from the top floor of Shanghai World Financial Center (492 meters high) in the Pudong Lujiazui Financial District (Feng Li/Getty Images)
South Korea Pavilion (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
the illuminated Expo Axis of Sunshine Valley (Qilai Shen/Bloomberg)
U.K. Pavilion, “Seed Cathedral” (Kevin Lee/Bloomberg)
U.K. Pavilion (PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP/Getty Images)
U.K. Pavilion (Kevin Lee/Bloomberg)
Serbia Pavilion (REUTERS/Stringer)
Russian Pavilion
French Pavilion (REUTERS/Shanghai Pacific Institute for International Strategy)
Shanghai Corporate Pavilion (AFP/AFP/Getty Images)
An aerial view shows vehicles traveling on newly-lit intersections at night in Shanghai (REUTERS/Shanghai Pacific Institute for International Strategy)
Elevated highways are illuminated by LED lights (Feng Li/Getty Images)
Performers dressed as traditional Chinese Terra Cotta Warriors
Paramilitary policemen take part in a drill in preparation for the security of the 2010 Shanghai World Expo (REUTERS/Stringer)
Riot policemen take part in a swearing-in ceremony at a security meeting for the upcoming Shanghai World Expo 2010 (REUTERS/Stringer)
Pictures taken from >“the big picture”, a nice page of >boston.com
