Shanghai will open 42 special bus routes during the upcoming 2010 Shanghai World Expo to help get visitors to the World Expo sites. Also, the newly-opened routeswill connect with bus hubs and subway stations, as well as entrances and exits to the World Expo site. They will also extend operating hours.
They hope about 50 percent of passengers could come to World Expo site by the subway system while the bus system transports another 40 percent.
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A Shanghai Expo giant panda basks after enjoying fresh bamboo shoots in Shanghai
Shanghai Expo giant pandas enjoy fresh bamboo shoots in Shanghai, east China, on March 10, 2010. Fresh bamboo shoots are offered for Shanghai World Expo giant pandas from Wednesday.
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The food can be excellent, but ever-persent waiting staff and the blinding lights of many Chinese restaurants can kill of a romantic soiree before the first drink arrives. M on the Bund concojures up just the right balance of choice setting and intimacy, while an escargot’s throw away, Jean Georges casts just the right sort of romantic magic over dinner. East of the river, Danieli’s delivers delicious nocturnal window-side views over to twinking Lujiazhui.
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Over recent years, the Bund has attracted a host of elegrant and smart international and Chinese restaurants aiming to capitalise on the waterfront’s architectural exclusivity and classic panoramas. Restaurants further spill on down Nanjing Rd and parallel roads west to Renmin Square.
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The United Kingdom pavilion for the 2010 Shanghai World Expo from May 1 to October 31 will be completed at the end of March 2010.
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband pushed in the final acrylic pole for the facade of the Seed Cathedral, the centerpiece of the pavilion at the Wrold Expo site. The move signaled the end of the construction of the exterior structure of the pavilion.
The UK would take the advantage of the World Expo Shanghai to display its most positive aspects, involving sustainable development, innovation and concepts of opening and tolerance, and the World Expo would be a good platform for Britain and China to discuss economic issues and to promote cooperation and understanding in trade, education, science and culture.
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A Beautiful Encounter With Shanghai Hongqiao Handicraft Market
In Shanghai Hongqiao area where tens of thousands of merchants gather and Chinese and Foreign elements mix up, there is a place famous far and near for its handicraft market-Shanghai Hongqiao Handicraft Market, which looks like a resplendent pearl inlaid in Hongqiao area.
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African Pavilion of World Expo
A worker works on a facial sculpture in the African Pavilion of the 2010 Shanghai World Expo. The facial sculptures are the centerpiece of the African Pavilion.
The Worl Expo is to open on May 1 this year.
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Lingshan Great Buddha in Wuxi
The Great Buddha at Lingshan stands 88 meters tall. The grand Buddha looks at all flesh with an affable smile. His right hand has a fearless seal with hand lifted and the center of the palm outside, which symbolizes removal of sufferings. And his left hand has a wishes seal with hand lifted, the center of the palm outside, and the thumb and the forefinger in the ring type like “OK”, which signifies giving of happiness. They are all feathres of benediction. Sedate, dignified and delicate, the Buddhist statue has a solemn and satisfactory shape, showing the Buddha’s feature of mercy.
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Tianmu Lake in Changzhou
The Tianmu Lake is located 8 kilometers south of Liyang City in Jiangsu Province, where Jiangsu Province, Zhejiang Province and Anhui Province meet. Reputed as the pearlon the area south of the Yangtze River, the lake was listed as a provincial tourist resort in 1993. The scenic spot has very convenient transportation both inside and outside the area. It also has rich tourist resources, with beautiful scenery, wild life and three unique products as its three distinctive attractions.
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This year’s 2010 Shanghai World Expo will boost room rates by as much as 20 percent, and it’s adding up to 200 hotels nationwide.
Nasdaq-listed Home Inns has 61 hotels in the eastern Chinese city, which plays host to the 2010 Shanghai World Expo May 1 to Oct 31. A total of 192 countries, including the UK, France and Japan, and 50 international organizations will participate, and organizers are expecting 70 million visitors, according to the Expo’s website.
The company expects to add between 180 and 200 hotels this year. That’s up from 145 new hotels last year, when the slowing economy forced the company to miss its forecast of more than 200 hotels.
Home Inns’ shares have declined 8.7 percent this year in US trading, compared with a 1.6 percent gain in the USX China Index, which tracks US companies that derive a majority of their sales from China.
The company had 616 hotels in operation in 120 cities in China at the end of last year. The price for a standard room ranged between 169 yuan and 299 yuan in different cities.
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