The Peel Group, an infrastructure and real-estate outfit, hosted a pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo last year.
The revision came days before the opening of the six-month Shanghai World Expo, which organizers expect will draw more than 70 million people.
Since then, two events, the Beijing Olympics later that year and the Shanghai World Expo of 2010, might have served as coming-out parties for a rising China.
Air China told Reuters the total investment and overall size of the joint venture's fleet had yet to be agreed, but it hopes to have a deal finalized before the Shanghai World Expo begins in May 2010.
Like the Beijing 2008 Olympics or the Shanghai 2010 World Expo.
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Does the President expect to stop in Shanghai at the World Expo ground?
From May China will be visited by a series of foreign leaders going to the World Expo in Shanghai.
It has cancelled a Chinese government-sponsored visit by 1, 000 young Japanese people to the World Expo in Shanghai (again citing an inappropriate atmosphere).
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The Shanghai Corporate Pavilion at the World Expo, funded by local state enterprises, commissioned a Pulitzer-prize-winning photographer, Liu Heung Shing, to compile a book of images of Shanghai's history, giving him unprecedented access to the city's archives.
These corrupt officials and police don't want to lose that income, so they let brothels operate freely as long as they don't become hubs for more serious crimes, like drug sales, or violence--and as long as there isn't overwhelming political will to shut things down, as there was around the Beijing Olympics in 2008 and the run up to the World Expo in Shanghai this year.
FORBES: It tells you a lot about how Chinese government works.
Trajectory: Shanghai has breathed life into the World Expo movement because this is the 21st Century, and it belongs to China as did the 19th Century to England and the 20th to America.
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The Shanghai government partnered with the Bureau International des Expositions to build a massive 35, 000sqm World Expo Museum.
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