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Shanghai

 Population: 19,210,000
Time Zone: +8 UTC
currency: Chinese yuan/renminbi (¥) CNY
official language: Standard Mandarin / Wu or Shanghainese

2010 Shanghai World Expo Site: The World Expo 2010 Shanghai ran between 1 May and 31 October 2010. It was a major World Expo in the tradition of international fairs and expositions, the first since 1992. The theme of the exposition was “Better City – Better Life” and signifies Shanghai’s new status in the 21st century as the “next great world city”. The Expo emblem features the Chinese character 世 (‘world’, Chinese “shì”) modified to represent three people together with the 2010 date. It had the largest number of countries participating and was the most expensive Expo in the history of the world’s fairs. The Shanghai World Expo was also the largest World’s Fair site ever at 5.28 square km.
By the end of the expo, over 73 million people had visited – a record attendance – and 250 countries and international organizations had participated.  Following the event, it has been decided that the Expo site will become part of the Museum of Chinese Modern Art and is scheduled to open in October 2012.

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