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Two Chinese-American groups in Los Angeles will jointly sponsor a float to promote Shanghai World Expo 2010 in the upcoming Rose Parade new year celebration.
The public will be able to start buying tickets for the World Expo 2010 on July 1. The benchmark price for a ticket is 160 yuan. Foreigners will be able to buy tickets from overseas outlets authorized by the Bureau of Shanghai World Expo Coordination.
Shanghai might organize local residents to provide homestays during the 2010 World Expo, a tourism official said Tuesday.
Shanghai World Expo 2010, whose theme is "Better City, Better Life", will give visitors a glimpse into the future, a future that includes a healthier, more sustainable urban environment.
Li Changchun, member of the Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China Central Committee Political Bureau, took a five-day tour of, Shanghai, that ended Friday.
The Shanghai World Expo organizer on Monday began to recruit 130 interns among local university graduates to assist the operation of the 2010 event.
Beams of light radiate from the China Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo construction site as workers begin the testing of electrical features in Shanghai, on June 22, 2009.
A senior Chinese official stressed that security would play the most important role in a successful Shanghai World Expo in 2010.
Construction workers walk past the China Pavilion which has been painted red. Thousands of aluminum boards, about 60,000 square meters in seven shades of red, will be on the facade of the Chinese icon by the end of July.
China's vast migration from rural to urban areas over the past 30 years will be the theme for the first section of the China Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo.