The Peel Group, an infrastructure and real-estate outfit, hosted a pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo last year.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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The revision came days before the opening of the six-month Shanghai World Expo, which organizers expect will draw more than 70 million people.

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From May China will be visited by a series of foreign leaders going to the World Expo in Shanghai.

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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.

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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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