EXPO Shanghai - The beginning or the end of change?

The 2010 Shanghai EXPO garden opened five days for trial and error, 70% of the pavilions were opened to the preview visitors, and some were still closed for the final decorations. The area was closed again, the staff had to stay up all night to deck the pavilions out before the official opening day. On April 29th the opening ceremony has taken place.

Due to the foreseeable huge quantity of visitors during the test run, for some pavilions there were long queues with about one up to three hours waiting time. The Chinese pavilion even handed out visiting time reservation tickets for controlling the number of daily visitors. And the waiting queues develop in front of every open pavilion, so the central question for the organizers is not about what to show, but how to manage the big volume every day.

Some of the pavilions were overstrained by an astonishing visitor flow. They had taken previous Expos as an example, but were surprised because most Chinese people have no Exppo visiting experience yet. How to introduce and guide them, not to make Expo like any other fair is the main issue for the staff and volunteers. This will determine the Expo's reputation.

May 1st will be the kick-off day, and at the same time like a complex ending for the composers. The new streets, tunnels, metros are one by one in use, the noisy constructions are over, at least the Expo bureau promised to keep the city quiet and clean until the end of October. Flowers and grass can easily be transplanted from the gardens; but the citizens want to keep this permanently, not only for the short-term performance, so finally the municipal government should start to think about how to make the beauty more sustainable.

People see the difference between before and at the EXPO 2010. The concern is not only having a park or not during the Expo time, but can we continue improving the environment after this varied and vivid event? Will local business advance or be stuck? Will the trip cost in Shanghai be higher or cheaper because of more public transportation systems? How expensive will transportation entering Shanghai from outside be? Because the flight prices for coming to Shanghai are already much higher than for those going out.

Hopefully the EXPO 2010 will be full of interactive communication between different people from different provinces or countries, the discussion on the folk’s platform can also be very interesting and inspiring. Therefore, the Expo may be the trigger to start the wave of mass discussion.

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• Expo 2010 – Shanghai

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就要完工，是开始还是结局？

世博会试运营了5天，累得够呛！期间开馆70%，还有30%的馆未完工，人山人海倒没有，扎堆现象尤为明显。重新闭馆后，希望做好最后冲刺，虽然也知道29号已经是开幕晚会了。捏把汗先！

这么多人也其实早有预期，很多馆外排队需耗时1~3个小时，中国馆实行预约券发放制度，大概每个人入馆的人都想膜拜一下中国馆，实在不堪重负，不得已啊！几乎每个开放的馆外都要排起长龙，所以眼下各主办方需要解决的首要问题已经不是展示什么，而是怎么搞掂这么汹涌的人潮。

有些馆已经明显被震惊了，劳累过后反省不该拿以往的世博会直接作参照。中国人太TMD多了，更不要说大家都没有观世博的历史经验。怎么去解说，怎么去疏导，是工作人员和志愿者需要不辞辛苦做的事情。否则，很有可能大家看完根本不把世博当回事。毕竟是这么高级别的国际展会！

五月一号正式开球，但又似乎是一个幽怨的完结，当然这是对组织者来说。新马路、新隧道、新地铁一个个启用了，闹腾了几年的建设也算完结了，这是对老百姓的。至于安静这事儿能不能保持长久不衰，咱也没法管，起码官方说法能维持到10月底。花花草草容易移栽，而人的心思呢？几日鲜大概是最大的困惑吧，市政府的叔叔们是否能够让这美丽更可持续一些呢？

老百姓总是不自然地做一些世博前后比较，倒不是说多了这个公园还是咋地，世博期间，那么一大堆的生动环境卫生教育是否能够起效？本地生意会否受到影响？这么多公共交通系统建设完后，旅行费用会变高还是变低呢？外地到上海的交通开支会不会飙涨？目前已经有很多地方到上海的机票大大高于往年同期了。

小小的希望是世博会能够充满互动的沟通交流，不管是本地人与外地人，还是本国人与外国人，这些民间意识下的讨论都会非常有趣。那就期待大众踊跃讨论吧。