The largest World Expo Shanghai 2010

The largest World Expo in history, which will be held in Shanghai, will open May 1st. Builders and organizers rush to complete it in time.

The theme of the exhibition "Better City, Better Life", it should last until 31 October 2010. During the last months, in anticipation of the exhibition in Shanghai is actively completed major construction and renovation projects. Every day at the fair is expected to 800 000 visitors from around the world. Collected here are a few photos of Shanghai.




In this photo taken on February 21 in front of the construction works «Seed Cathedral», made of thousands of flexible acrylic rods. This is the main attraction of the pavilion at the World Expo UK in Shanghai. The exhibition will start on May 1 and will be operational within six months. It is expected that the exhibition will be visited by 70 million people. (AP Photo)



Workers at the construction site of one of the pavilions of Great Britain, known as the «Seed Cathedral». 20-meter high building in the shape of a cube will be covered 60 thousand thin transparent acrylic rods that will shiver in the wind. (REUTERS / China Daily)



China Pavilion (right). The picture was taken from the boulevard World Expo 2010 in Shanghai on January 22. (PHILIPPE LOPEZ / AFP / Getty Images)



Worker resting near China Pavilion during its completion of 8 February. (AP Photo)



Funnel building, created to absorb the sun's rays to illuminate the galleries and accumulation of rainwater jets for watering green areas. (PHILIPPE LOPEZ / AFP / Getty Images)



Worker cleans the outside "Sun Valley" - a building that absorbs solar energy. (REUTERS / Nir Elias)



Working on an old building in the center of Shanghai on March 10. (REUTERS / Aly Song)



A guard sits in front of a closed restaurant looking at customers in the queue, at the cafe fast food «Yang's Fry-Dumpling» next to the old ruined building on a street in Shanghai on 9 February. «Yang's» is located in one area of ​​Shanghai, before undergoing a full restoration of the World Exhibition of 2010. In less than three months before the show the night market in the street Wujiang Road living out its last days. (PHILIPPE LOPEZ / AFP / Getty Images)



Percussion drill demolishing old buildings on the street Wujiang, at the old market in Shanghai on February 8. (PHILIPPE LOPEZ / AFP / Getty Images)



A Chinese worker examines the debris of demolished houses in Shanghai February 3 to make way for modern buildings in one of the areas to be repaired on the eve of the World Expo 2010. (PHILIPPE LOPEZ / AFP / Getty Images)



The cultural center in the building process on January 6. (REUTERS / Nir Elias)



Workers collect rubble from the Polish pavilion. (REUTERS / Nir Elias (CHINABUSINESS CONSTRUCTION EMPLOYMENT)



Sun Valley and the Chinese Pavilion during the test light on January 12. (REUTERS / China Daily)



Read newspapers builder is reflected in the facade of the pavilion Australia January 6. (REUTERS / Nir Elias)



The Australian pavilion at the site of the future World Expo 2010 on March 12th. (AFP / AFP / Getty Images)



Seating is on the roof of thematic pavilions covered with solar panels on February 3. (REUTERS / China Daily)



Working against the backdrop of "Streets of Happiness" - part of the Danish pavilion - March 2 in Shanghai. (REUTERS / Aly Song)



Invited guest looks at the pictures in the pavilion of China during the completion of 8 February. (AP Photo)



Two people walking along the road on the roof of the pavilion of China on 18 January. (REUTERS / China Daily)



Workers at the pavilion of Luxembourg on March 2. (REUTERS / Aly Song)



Builder works in the German Pavilion in Shanghai on March 8. (REUTERS / Aly Song)



The workers are still being built by Spain Pavilion March 11th. (PHILIPPE LOPEZ / AFP / Getty Images)



Work carries the beam past the Pavilion of Spain 8th of March. (AP Photo / Eugene Hoshiko)



Work on the construction site of the pavilion in South Korea on March 2. (REUTERS / Aly Song)



Work determines the scale of the pavilion of the United Arab Emirates, March 2. (REUTERS / Aly Song)



Construction worker stands at the Swiss pavilion 8th of March. (REUTERS / Aly Song)



Workers at the Pavilion France March 11th. (PHILIPPE LOPEZ / AFP / Getty Images)



Builders working on the Israeli pavilion 6 January. (REUTERS / Nir Elias)



Work holding iron bars, while his companions slept in front of pavilion UK March 11th. (PHILIPPE LOPEZ / AFP / Getty Images)



Inside the pavilion almost completed the UK, which was named «Seed Cathedral». The building is made of thousands of acrylic rods. (STR / AFP / Getty Images)



At the ends of acrylic rods in the UK pavilion visible "seeds." (REUTERS / Aly Song)