Expo 2010, Shanghai, China – An Event Of Huge Proportions

Big Expo, Large Exhibits The world’s largest reproduction of the Mona Lisa takes pride of place on the exterior wall of the Shenzhen pavilion christian louboutin shoes. The oil painting measures 300 sq. metres, composed of hundreds of 30cm x 20 cm pieces put together by 999 painters. The skeletons of two Jurassic period dinosaurs will grace the Yunnan Province pavilion. The 6.4m x 2.5m Lufengosaurus huenei and the 10 m x 4 m Lufengosaurus magnus were unearthed in 1997 K-EXPO FRANCE.

They are reported as two of China’s biggest dinosaur fossil finds. For the Public’s Convenience 250 restaurants plus some 150 food stores will operate on the Shanghai expo site, all chosen strictly on the basis of merit according to a China Daily report. Food safety standards are high, and more than 2,000 food outlet staff have received special training in food handling requirements for the event. Electronic identification tags will be used to track food through the entire supply chain, to “guarantee food safety and quality all the way from production to the dinner table,” Xie Minqiang, deputy director of the Shanghai Food and Drug Administration, told China Daily.

Some 170,000 volunteers will be pressed in to action at Expo 2010. 72,000 will be on duty at Shanghai Expo Park itself, while the rest will be deployed throughout Shanghai cheap christian louboutin shoes to work at volunteer service centres and information booths. It is reported that in addition to the formal volunteers selected to serve, authorities will mobilise almost 2 million citizens to help visitors during the Expo. The organisers have installed more than thirty public toilet blocks that can accommodate 8,000 visitors at a time. The ratio of female to male toilet space was set at 2.5 to 1 after Chinese researchers found that it takes women 114 seconds to urinate while men take 48 seconds. 10 -12 am and 1 – 5 pm will be the peak demand times.