From the press

Young talent time

Young musicians from all over the world will take part in the Shanghai Expo until July 18 as part of the Young Expo series of events. More than 2,000 students from schools and colleges, including Sydney University, Harvard University and Yale University, will perform at Expo Square. The musical styles will include percussion, jazz, rock and folk. There will also be classical, dance and choral performances. Music from Japan and Peking opera will also be performed. The festival has been co-organized by Shanghai Fudan University. Other student performers are from the Royal Danish Academy of Music, Australia's Canon Hill College, Tsinghua University, Beijing University, London's Imperial College, Hong Kong University, Taiwan University, Macau University, and China's Taibei and Ritan middle schools. The musicians will also give concerts at the Shanghai Concert Hall, Xintiandi, in Gubei and at the KIC Plaza.

Eastday.com

Evening cool

The Expo Garden has witnessed increasing numbers of visitors in the evening who wish to avoid the heat and long queues of the day. Organizers said the Expo Garden has a different face at night because landscape lighting is turned on. Visitors find night tours very comfortable and enjoyable.

Jfdaily.com

Mini Expo

Netizens are passionately involved in creating hand-made miniature pavilions from the Expo Garden and uploading pictures to online forums. To make the China Pavilion, a visitor put four cans as the pillars to hold up a plastic bowl. To make the United Kingdom Pavilion, another stuck hundreds of toothpicks into a potato. Materials applied to crafts vary from vegetable to clay, fruits to cartons, and tableware to cloth. The display of hand-made pavilions online has attracted thousands of comments and reviews.

163.com

The heat is on

The heat index in the Expo Garden will soon be publicized on the website www.soweather.com. The forecast is a combination of heat indexes used in China, Canada, the US and Germany. Experts said visitors from different parts of the world have various perceptions about heat. In China, when temperature exceeds 35 C, the day is considered hot. While in India, 40 C constitutes a hot day. Shanghai is facing high temperatures during summer, which may be unpleasant for some visitors from cooler areas around the world.

Ifeng.com

(China Daily 07/09/2010 page38)