World Expo brings incredible progress to Shanghai

I toured all 83 pavilions of the World Expo 2010 from July 5 to July 9 along with other members of the expert appraisal section for the Shanghai Expo, and these five intensive days left me with a deep impression.

People's ethical conduct has improved significantly ever since the Expo 2010 Shanghai, China was launched on 1 May, according to the leadership of the The Bureau of shanghai World Expo Coordination, and there is a marked decline in such improper practices of not lining-up, littering and spitting. Although the number of visitors has reached over half a million daily at times, line-waiting at the Expo is a bit like taking the Beijing subway – an orderly flow. At the 83 pavilions that have been inspected, the public performance is amazing without any hubbub of voices among visitors, and some of them look around quietly as if tuning to learn all the things of real interest to them.

Shanghai municipal authority proposed for upgrading the quality of local residents by taking the Expo as a rare opportunity. And I personally agreed to such a noble objective and regarded it as reasonable and appropriate.

Whenever asked about what my Shanghai expo worries were on my tour of numerous cities to promote the Expo 2010, my candid reply was that I really worried about the quality of my fellow citizens. The first World Expo Forum was held in Shanghai in October 2003, and we put up in the old Jinjiang International Hotel. When the chairman of the Bureau of International Exposition (BIE) then and his predecessor Chairman Ole Philipson were going to attend a function at the nearby 33-story New Garden Hotel Shanghai, they became very worried and held my hands firmly while crossing the street. They were scared by speeding cars as traffic there did not respect much pedestrians or the traffic lights.

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