The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government has submitted a theme statement report to the Bureau of Shanghai World Expo Coordination for its exhibition hall at China Pavilion in 2010.
The exhibition theme, entitled "Hong Kong: A City With Unlimited Potential," will fully demonstrate the distinctive characteristics and status of Hong Kong among Chinese and world cities through highlighting the financial center's high quality of urban life and pioneering spirit in creativity, said Patrick Chan Chi-king, director of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in Shanghai of the HKSAR Government.
The HKSAR government attaches great importance to the Shanghai World Expo and will actively participate in the activities held by the Expo organizers, he said.
Theme statement is a component part of the exhibition contracts signed by participants and organizers of Shanghai World Expo, illustrating the participants' themes for their exhibitions.
Construction on the China Pavilion dubbed the "Oriental Crown" was started on Dec. 18, 2007, which covers 6.52 hectares in the Pudong New District of Shanghai on the eastern bank of the Huangpu River, according to the Expo's official website.
It includes a national pavilion, a joint pavilion for provinces and cities as well as separate pavilions for Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. Each province or city will get a 600-square-meter exhibition area in the pavilion.
The China Pavilion will be completed by the end of 2009, at a cost of about 1.5 billion yuan (205 million U.S. dollars).
The Expo, which runs May 1 to October 31, 2010 under the theme of "Better City, Better Life", is expected to draw 70 million visitors, an average of 400,000 a day.
It will be the first time for the event to be held in a developing country since the inaugural fair in London in 1851. Shanghai won its bid for the Expo in December 2002.
To date, 161 countries and 26 international organizations have committed to attend the Shanghai World Expo, surpassing the previous record held by Hanover, Germany, in 2000.
Source: Xinhua
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