Expo 2010 (上海世界博览会) will be held in Shanghai, China and is a scheduled World Expo in the grand tradition of international fairs and expositions. The theme of the exposition will be "Better City – Better Life" and signifies Shanghai's new status in the 21st century as a major economic and cultural center. It is expected to generate the largest number of visitors in the history of the world's fairs in terms of gross numbers.
The Expo will take place from May 1, 2010 – October 31, 2010.
For the first time in history, the Shanghai 2010 Expo will feature a highly sophisticated online version called "Online Expo Shanghai".
The site of the event is the Nanpu Bridge-Lupu Bridge region in the center of Shanghai along both sides of the Huangpu River. The area of the Expo 2010 covers 5.28 km².
"Better City, Better Life”, the theme of Expo 2010
A massive construction of metro lines are undertaken for years to serve the traffic demand brought by the event.
Shanghai Metro Line 7, Shanghai Metro Line 8 South Extension, Shanghai Metro Line 13 are all under construction which will connect the expo site directly with the other parts of the city.
Shanghai Metro Line 9 Phase II, Shanghai Metro Line 11 Phase I, Shanghai Metro Line 2 East Extension, Shanghai Metro Line 10 will be opened before the event too.
As for intercity traffic, officials in Beijing announced plans on March 6, 2006, to begin construction of a second commercial maglev train system in Shanghai by the end of 2006. The planned Shanghai-Hangzhou Maglev Train would have connected Hangzhou as a west extension of the existing line and was planned for completion in time for Expo 2010.
However, after massive public protest and the the fall of the projects champion, Chen Liangyu, to corruption charges, the project was put on indefinite hold by the Chinese government in May 2007 to study "electromagnetic radiation
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