Farewell, Expo Shanghai

The recent explosive event finally closed with a recordable visitor entry number, more than 70 million. EXPO has achieved its estimated mission and hopefully will leave aplenty memories to people.

During the past 6 months, Shanghai has welcomed a historical amount of tourists from all over the world, which has tested and questioned Shanghai from almost every street. It was hard, but Shanghai still has to keep on moving to a better city.

The final week of 2010 EXPO was not the common visitors’ day, and the ticket is also much higher than the former common day ticket. But the high price couldn’t stop the enthusiasm for the last order, the long queue last until the last minute. EXPO as a social discourse has immersed in Chinese life, everyone is taking part as a visitor, or a mouth-to-mouth communicator. Especially for Shanghai, EXPO has brought such a complex to the citizens, in the preparation time, Shanghai city has been set up as a window of China to show to the world; but on the other hand, they suffered the pain from the change. Finally it’s formulated as a great contribution, while makes people forget about the healed wound.

Almost all pavilions will be tore down, only few of them can be kept as a permanent museum for memorizing EXPO, what has been put into the agenda of Shanghai Municipal Government and BIE (Bureau of International Exhibitions) . Chinese don’t understand this future, but sooner or later they will figure out the huge estate and other economic benefits have covered these tearing loosing.

So, the last but important task for pavilions is how to deal their commodities in their EXPO shops, some pavilions have been directly sold to Chinese cities who are interested, the UK pavilion sold all their seeds via an auction in China, while people bided online, then it will be soon tore down start on Nov. 1^st.

For this ending, everyone is expressing their farewell via online community, interesting pictures, EXPO Passport experience etc., which has influenced visitors and listeners, but somehow someone is applauding for backing to the non-EXPO life, because of the functional government regulations were carried out for preventing disturbing from normal people. Too much exceptions for operating EXPO but have made hard pressures to a regular life.

In the public television words, EXPO is almost perfect by now, all of the prizes and rewards will go to the organizers who have been seized in stressed work for a half year or even more, which is a Chinese tradition after every important event. What can EXPO contribute to the city after the tourism flood disappears on an expectable date.


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