SHANGHAI UNIVERSAL EXPO: May 1 to October 31, 2010.
December 3, 2002, in the evening, Shanghai, the economic capital of China, was appointed to organize the 2010 World Expo. The other candidates were Yeosu (South Korea), Moscow (Russia), Queretaro (Mexico) and Wroclaw (Poland).
That evening, the great dream of the Chinese city, Oriental Pearl, has become reality. The Chinese, especially Shanghainese, are the happiest people in the world. They promised to organize an exhibition successful, splendid and unforgettable in 2010.
The Expo is an opportunity for participants to share their achievements in the social, economic, cultural and scientific. This is the first time that this exhibition will be held in a developing country, which has opened a new chapter in the history of the event which dates back over 150 years.
This is still good news for China, after qualifying the previous summer for the 2008 Olympics. The World Expo, "Economic Olympics", will give new impetus to the development of China.
It now appears that all foreign countries certainly have a reason to turn to it for future giant exclaim after the WTO and the 2008 Olympics, the year China-France and obtained high profile in global forums such as UN, ASEM, APEC, ASEAN: the twenty-first century, the world is that of China!
The Shanghai World Expo will run from May 1 to October 31, 2010. the theme will be that of Better City, Better Life (Better City, Better Life).
Here is the list of participating countries at the next World Expo in Shanghai in 2010 (list established in November 2007):
180 countries will attend the World Expo in Shanghai in 2010:
(In parentheses the capital of the country)
AMERICAS (21 countries):
| Argentina (Buenos Aires) | Guyana (Georgetown) |
| Bolivia (La Paz) | Haiti (Port-au-Prince) |
| Canada (Ottawa) | Jamaica (Kingston) |
| Chile (Santiago) | Mexico (Mexico City) |
| Costa Rica (San Jose) | Nicaragua (Managua) |
| Cuba (Havana) | Peru (Lima) |
| Dominica (Roseau) | Suriname (Paramaribo) |
| USA (Washington) | Trinidad and Tobago (Port of Spain) |
| Ecuador (Quito) | Uruguay (Montevideo) |
| Grenada (St. Georges) | Venezuela (Caracas) |
| Guatemala (Guatemala City) |
EUROPE (38 participants):
| Albania (Tirana) | Macedonia (Skopje) |
| Germany (Berlin) | Moldova (Chisinau) |
| Austria (Vienna) | Monaco (Monaco) |
| Belgium (Brussels) | Montenegro (Podgorica) |
| Belarus (Minsk) | Norway (Oslo) |
| Bulgaria (Sofia) | Netherlands (Amsterdam) |
| Cyprus (Nicosia) | Poland (Warsaw) |
| Croatia (Zagreb) | Portugal (Lisbon) |
| Denmark (Copenhagen) | Czech Republic (Prague) |
| Spain (Madrid) | Romania (Bucharest) |
| Estonia (Tallinn) | Russia (Moscow) |
| Finland (Helsinki) | San Marino (San Marino) |
| France (Paris) | Serbia (Belgrade) |
| Great Britain and Northern Ireland (London) | Slovakia (Bratislava) |
| Greece (Athens) | Sweden (Stocklom) |
| Hungary (Budapest) | Switzerland (Bern) |
| Ireland (Dublin) | Turkey (Ankara) |
| Italy (Rome) | Ukraine (Kiev) |
| Lithuania (Vilnius) | |
| Luxembourg (Luxembourg) |
AFRICA (48 participants):
| South Africa (Pretoria) | Madagascar (Antananarivo) |
| Algeria (Algiers) | Mali (Bamako) |
| Angola (Luanda) | Morocco (Rabat) |
| Benin (Cotonou) | Mauritania (Nouakchott) |
| Botswana (Gaborone) | Mozambique (Maputo) |
| Burundi (Bujumbura) | Namibia (Windhoek) |
| Cameroon (Yaoundé) | Niger (Abuja) |
| Cape Verde (Praia) | Nigeria (Abuja) |
| Comoros (Moroni) | Uganda (Kampala) |
| Congo (Brazzaville) | Central African Republic (Bangui) |
| Ivory Coast (Yamoussoukro) | Rwanda (Kigali) |
| Djibouti (Djibouti) | Senegal (Dakar) |
| Egypt (Cairo) | Seychelles (Victoria) |
| Eritrea (Asmara) | Sierra Leone (Freetown) |
| Ethiopia (Addis Ababa) | Somalia (Mogadishu) |
| Gabon (Libreville) | Sudan (Khartoum) |
| Ghana (Accra) | Tanzania (Dar es Salaam) |
| Guinea Bissau (Bissau) | Chad (N'Djamena) |
| Guinea (Conakry) | Togo (Iome) |
| Equatorial Guinea (Malabo) | Tunisia (Tunis) |
| Mauritius (Port Louis) | Uganda (Kapala) |
| Kenya (Nairobi) | Zambia (Lusaka) |
| Lesotho (Maseru) | Zimbabwe (Harare) |
| Liberia (Monrovia) | |
| Libyan (Tripoli) |
ASIA (42 participants):
| Afghanistan (Kabul) | Maldives (Male) |
| Saudi Arabia (Riyadh) | Mongolia (Ulan Bator) |
| Armenia (Yerevan) | Nepal (Kathmandu) |
| Azerbaijan (Baku) | Oman (Muscat) |
| Bahrain (Manama) | Uzbekistan (Tashkent) |
| Bangladesh (Dhaka) | Pakistan (Islamabad) |
| Bhutan (Thimphu) | Palestine (Gaza) |
| Burma-Myanmar (Yangon) | Philippines (Manila) |
| Brunei (Bandar Seri Begawan) | Singapore (Singapore) |
| Cambodia (Phnom Penh) | Sri Lanka (Colombo) |
| North Korea (Pyongyang) | Syria (Damascus) |
| South Korea (Seoul) | Tajikistan (Dushanbe) |
| United Arab Emirates (Abu Dhabi) | Thailand (Bangkok) |
| Georgia (Tbilisi) | Turkmenistan (Ashgabat) |
| India (New Delhi) | Turkey (Ankara) |
| Indonesia (Jakarta) | Vietnam (Hanoi) |
| Iran (Tehran) | Yemen (Sanaa) |
| Iraq (Baghdad) | |
| Japan (Tokyo) | |
| Jordan (Amman) | |
| Kazakhstan (Astana) | |
| Kyrgyzstan (Bishkek) | |
| Laos (Vientiane) | |
| Lebanon (Beirut) | |
| Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur) |
OCEANIA (10 participants):
| Australia (Canberra) | Palau (Koror) |
| Cook Islands (Avarua) | Papua New Guinea (Port Moresby) |
| Fiji (Suva) | Samoa (Apia) |
| Micronesia (Palikir) | T onga (Nuku'alofa) |
| New Zealand (Wellington) | Vanuatu (Port Vila) |
There is also a list of 20 international organizations including:
(In parentheses, the names in English)
- The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity
- The Commonwealth of Independent States
- World Tourism Organisation (WTO) (The World Tourism Organization)
- United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
(United Nations Industrial Development Organization b
- The World Bank (The World Bank)
- The UN (United Nations)
- World Water Council
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Sponsors of the World Expo Shanghai 2010
The Office for the Coordination of the event has signed an agreement with five partners:
- The Society of Automotive Industry and Shanghai General Motors China
- China Eastern Airlines
- China Mobile
- China Telecom
- The Bank of Communications Shanghai
GM China is the first multinational company to sponsor the Expo 2010 Shanghai.
