Ensuring it is all smooth and safe
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WITH the second China International Import Expo expected to draw a huge attendance, the Shanghai government is ready to ensure everything goes smoothly for domestic and foreign visitors alike.
Last year, visitors taking the Metro could only enter the venue, the National Exhibition and Convention Center, from outside, but this year they will be able to use Line 2 exits 4 and 5, which are inside the venue.
This will reduce the time for visitors to walk from the Metro station to the exhibition halls to 10 to 30 minutes, half the time it took last year, police said.
Other measures have been taken to relieve the burden of the crowd of visitors entering through the west side of the venue. Yang Xiaoxi, vice director of the transportation commission, said about 80 percent of all visitors entered from that side last year.
This year, shuttle buses, taxis and parking lots near the eastern entrance are expected to take over 27 percent of the visitors, and a new underground path linking the Zhuguang Road station on Metro Line 17 and the northern square of the venue is expected to take over 12 percent, Yang said.
A total of 5,881 volunteers will serve the second CIIE, with about 4,100 working inside the venue, of whom about 3,600 will direct visitors and answer their questions.
About 5,100 of the volunteers are Chinese students from 38 universities and colleges in Shanghai, and about one in five had volunteered at last year’s expo, according to Wu Bin, vice secretary of the Shanghai Youth League which is in charge of volunteer recruitment for the event.
Working alongside the students from Shanghai will be those recruited from other provinces and foreign students and students from Hong Kong who are studying in Shanghai, Wu said.
“We have laid a stronger emphasis on recruiting student volunteers studying English this year, and about 80 volunteers speak over 10 other foreign languages than English,” he said.
A total of 250 volunteers from the local Red Cross association will also serve at the expo, while the number of hospitals commissioned to provide medical services for expo visitors has risen from 18 last year to 33.
Qin Jing, vice director of the health commission, said the nearest top-range hospital, the western branch of Huashan Hospital, is less than 3 kilometers away, and anyone needing hospital treatment could be transported to the hospital in three minutes. The number of ambulances at the venue has been increased from five to seven and the number of portable automated external defibrillators has been increased from 50 to 58.
“We have improved the distribution of the AED devices within the venue so that the volunteers can use them as soon as possible,” Qin said.
The city’s three main mobile carriers have promised high level service. Li Jin, general manager of Internet operations at China Telecom’s Shanghai branch, said his company alone can provide wireless Internet for 370,000 CDMA and 4G users at the same time and also 120,000 5G users.
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