An exhibition EXPO 2010 in Shanghai Bashny.Net

Yesterday evening the sky over Shanghai illuminated lights many fireworks - a solemn ceremony of the highly anticipated exhibition EXPO-2010. Shanghai Expo will be a record for the cost of it (according to various sources, from 4, 2 billion to 95 billion US dollars), the number of visitors (100 million people) and duration (6 months).

27 ph via Bigpicture

1) The acrobats perform at the opening ceremony of an international exhibition in Shanghai





2) After the Beijing Olympic Games, Shanghai World Expo China - another opportunity to show the world its growing political and economic power, as well as the fact that the country has emerged from the financial crisis without serious consequences.



3) Dancers perform during the opening ceremony of the Shanghai Expo 2010.



4) The opening ceremony lasted about two hours.



5) The official part of the festival began with a welcome song for EXPO-2010 in Chinese, by popular overseas actor Jackie Chan (center photo), raising the national flag of China and the parade of flags of the participating countries.



6) After the official declaration of the exhibition began an open view, the contents of which until the last moment remained a secret. It was known only that the Chinese makers of the show worked in collaboration with foreign directors.



7) completed the opening ceremony of fireworks, the scale of which claimed more than a salute during the opening of the Beijing Olympics in 2008



8) During the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai attended by 246 countries and international organizations.



9) For more than 150-year history of the World Expo was first held in a developing country. The motto of the Expo 2010 in Shanghai - "Better City, Better Life."



10) The show of fireworks and fountains of light on the banks of the Huangpu River.



11) The artist from South Korea, one of the participants speaking during a break in the pavilion of his country, on Friday April 30th.



12) A Buddhist monk looking at the lights of fireworks during the opening ceremony of the Shanghai Expo-2010.



13)



14) Show the fireworks in the city's business center, which is Shanghai World Financial Center, whose construction took more than a decade.



15) Employees of the exhibition watching the fireworks at the opening ceremony of the World Expo in Shanghai.



16)



17) Dancers perform during the opening ceremony.



18) It is expected that during the six months of Expo 2010 will visit more than 70 million. Tourists.



19) Visitors to Expo Park will be offered more than 800 programs, more than 20 thousand performances of artistic groups from all continents.



20) Boats with flags float by a huge LED screen that displays national flags at the opening ceremony of the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai on 30 April.



21) Choir.



22) French President Nicolas Sarkozy (sixth from left) and his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, standing next to the president of the International Exhibitions Bureau Jean-Pierre Lafon, President Hu Jintao (ninth from left) and his wife Liu Yongqing, together with other heads of state at the time the opening ceremony of the Shanghai World Fair on 30 April. The opening ceremony came to Shanghai, among others, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, and the representative of Russia - Industry and Trade Minister Viktor Khristenko.



23) For the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai can be followed online.



24) One of the many participants speaking at the opening ceremony in the costume of the Chinese empress.



25) Girls participating performances from the pavilion in South Korea during a rehearsal.



26) A large crowd: Shanghaians and tourists are standing next to the flags of participating countries in anticipation of the holiday fireworks show.



27) In Shanghai, the opening of "Square urban dweller." During the World Expo, it will be one of the main scenes for numerous creative teams of the city.



Source: