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By Yang Jian |
January 20, 2009, Tuesday
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EXPO visitors will have the chance to see what vehicles may look like in 2030 in a pavilion being built by the Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp and General Motors.
The two car firms yesterday unveiled the design of their 10,000-square-meter pavilion, which resembles a huge metal bowl standing along the Huangpu River in the Puxi section of the Expo site.
The vision of a safe, convenient and highly intelligent future traffic system will be a highlight of the pavilion, said Kevin Wale, president and managing director of GM China Group. The theme of the exhibition will be "sustainable personal mobility."
In the future, vehicles will be able to communicate with each other, so there will be fewer accidents, said Xiao Guopu, vice president of SAIC.
The two company officials said the pavilion will be a "great surprise" to Expo visitors and show the development of the world's automobile industry, as did the World Expo 1933. At the 1933 World Expo in Chicago, the GM Pavilion proposed the idea of freeways for the first time.
Sixteen years after the Expo, the world's first freeway system was finished in the United States.
The car makers have invited children across China to draw a picture of what they think cities will look like in 2030. The children's ideas may be used in the exhibition.
Wale said he did not want to talk about the impact of the financial crisis on the company's Expo participation.
The cost of the pavilion will be "sky-high," Rong Wujie, chief designer of the pavilion, told Shanghai Daily.
The two car firms yesterday unveiled the design of their 10,000-square-meter pavilion, which resembles a huge metal bowl standing along the Huangpu River in the Puxi section of the Expo site.
The vision of a safe, convenient and highly intelligent future traffic system will be a highlight of the pavilion, said Kevin Wale, president and managing director of GM China Group. The theme of the exhibition will be "sustainable personal mobility."
In the future, vehicles will be able to communicate with each other, so there will be fewer accidents, said Xiao Guopu, vice president of SAIC.
The two company officials said the pavilion will be a "great surprise" to Expo visitors and show the development of the world's automobile industry, as did the World Expo 1933. At the 1933 World Expo in Chicago, the GM Pavilion proposed the idea of freeways for the first time.
Sixteen years after the Expo, the world's first freeway system was finished in the United States.
The car makers have invited children across China to draw a picture of what they think cities will look like in 2030. The children's ideas may be used in the exhibition.
Wale said he did not want to talk about the impact of the financial crisis on the company's Expo participation.
The cost of the pavilion will be "sky-high," Rong Wujie, chief designer of the pavilion, told Shanghai Daily.
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