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Expo heralds new urban era
By Chen Yong, Yi Gaochao |
May 7, 2010, Friday
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NEW technology has been appearing at World Expos since 1851, but the steam engines and steam boats have gradually given way to energy-efficient and cleaner vehicles powered by rechargeable batteries and, better still, fuel cells.
With the theme "Better City, Better Life," the Shanghai World Expo will incorporate visitors into environmentally friendly and environmentally sensitive urban systems that are not only equipped with the latest life-facilitating gadgets, but are also prepared for sustainable urbanization.
While the Eiffel Tower of Paris, Atomium of Brussels and Space Needle of Seattle have more than outlived the expositions they were built for to herald the advent and advancement of industrialization and the atomic era, the Shanghai World Expo zone along the Huangpu River will augur well for the collective conscience and consciousness about the surroundings human beings rely on for survival, let alone prosperity.
A commentary in Japan's Yukan Fuji newspaper has called the Shanghai Expo a can't-miss event; Germany's Frankfurter Rundschau newspaper has ranked the Shanghai Expo as unprecedented; and French President Nicolas Sarkozy described it as a World Expo firmly facing the future.
(The authors are writers at Xinhua news agency.)
With the theme "Better City, Better Life," the Shanghai World Expo will incorporate visitors into environmentally friendly and environmentally sensitive urban systems that are not only equipped with the latest life-facilitating gadgets, but are also prepared for sustainable urbanization.
While the Eiffel Tower of Paris, Atomium of Brussels and Space Needle of Seattle have more than outlived the expositions they were built for to herald the advent and advancement of industrialization and the atomic era, the Shanghai World Expo zone along the Huangpu River will augur well for the collective conscience and consciousness about the surroundings human beings rely on for survival, let alone prosperity.
A commentary in Japan's Yukan Fuji newspaper has called the Shanghai Expo a can't-miss event; Germany's Frankfurter Rundschau newspaper has ranked the Shanghai Expo as unprecedented; and French President Nicolas Sarkozy described it as a World Expo firmly facing the future.
(The authors are writers at Xinhua news agency.)
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