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China Pavilion to get secret treasure
By Yang Jian |
January 1, 2009, Thursday
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CHINA is preparing a surprise for visitors to its pavilion at World Expo 2010.
The concrete and steel frame of the 160,000-square-meter China Pavilion was completed yesterday and the organizers are considering putting a "national treasure" in the pavilion as a centerpiece to attract visitors.
The organizers have not yet decided what it will be, said He Jingtang, an academic with the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the pavilion's chief designer.
But he said the treasure would reflect the country's culture and fit the Expo 2010 theme of Better City, Better Life.
At the 2005 Expo in Aichi, Japan exhibited a fossil of a mammoth unearthed in Siberia. It became one of the Expo's most popular exhibits.
In the China Pavilion, the country's achievements in urban development from ancient to modern times will be the main focus, He said.
A fleshed-out exhibition plan for the pavilion has yet to be released although some details are already known, said Mao Xiaohan, who is in charge of the pavilion's blueprint. Mao declined to reveal any information about the plan, describing it as "secret."
The plan, and the "treasure," will be announced in September, Mao said.
In a promotional film released by the Expo 2010 organizers, the main exhibition area of the China Pavilion was a Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) era street with red lamps hung along it and the famous ancient painting "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" on one wall.
This was one of the plans for the pavilion, said Xu Bo, secretary of China's commissioner general for the Expo.
Cafes and two open-air observation decks will be set up on the roof of the pavilion.
Construction of the pavilion began on December 18, 2007 and is due to be completed in May, said Yao Jianping, the project manager.
Workers will begin to paint the pavilion in March. Interior decoration and exhibition arrangement will begin on September 30 and be finished before the end of the year.
The concrete and steel frame of the 160,000-square-meter China Pavilion was completed yesterday and the organizers are considering putting a "national treasure" in the pavilion as a centerpiece to attract visitors.
The organizers have not yet decided what it will be, said He Jingtang, an academic with the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the pavilion's chief designer.
But he said the treasure would reflect the country's culture and fit the Expo 2010 theme of Better City, Better Life.
At the 2005 Expo in Aichi, Japan exhibited a fossil of a mammoth unearthed in Siberia. It became one of the Expo's most popular exhibits.
In the China Pavilion, the country's achievements in urban development from ancient to modern times will be the main focus, He said.
A fleshed-out exhibition plan for the pavilion has yet to be released although some details are already known, said Mao Xiaohan, who is in charge of the pavilion's blueprint. Mao declined to reveal any information about the plan, describing it as "secret."
The plan, and the "treasure," will be announced in September, Mao said.
In a promotional film released by the Expo 2010 organizers, the main exhibition area of the China Pavilion was a Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) era street with red lamps hung along it and the famous ancient painting "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" on one wall.
This was one of the plans for the pavilion, said Xu Bo, secretary of China's commissioner general for the Expo.
Cafes and two open-air observation decks will be set up on the roof of the pavilion.
Construction of the pavilion began on December 18, 2007 and is due to be completed in May, said Yao Jianping, the project manager.
Workers will begin to paint the pavilion in March. Interior decoration and exhibition arrangement will begin on September 30 and be finished before the end of the year.
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