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With his home recently refurbished, Cheng Shuchu, head of the household at Expo Homestay No 1, is greeting guests from around the world arriving for Expo 2010 Shanghai. He has even designed postcards to hand out to his guests as souvenirs.
After its eye-catching debut at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the famous artwork, The Drunken Beauty, has made another stunning appearance, this time at the Expo 2010 Shanghai in the form of a 2.85-meter by 2.8-meter Chinese silk tapestry.
As copies of the Mona Lisa go, you don't get them much bigger than this. Nor does it usually take so many painters to recreate the masterpiece. And just to make the project even more bizarre, this version of the Mona Lisa sits horizontally on the side of a building.
The Belgium-EU Pavilion exhibits all that is great about the country, including chocolates and diamonds.
An online Expo passport is now available for free by logging onto www.expo.cn. At the website, go into the online pavilions page and click on the "acquire stamp" button, a stamp will go automatically into your online Expo passport.
In addition to millions of visitors and billions of yuan in revenue earned from Expo 2010 Shanghai, organizers are hoping the Expo site will serve as a driving force behind Shanghai's determination to become a global city.
Tickets to the China Pavilion, which are usually handed out to visitors free of charge at the entrance of the Expo Garden, are being sold inside the venue for up to 100 yuan each by people claiming to work for tourism agencies, according to a news report.
The cutting-edge technology used to make drinkable tap water in the Expo Garden is expected to be put into wider use in China after the Expo.
Japan, the world's leading robot innovator, demonstrates in its pavilion at the Expo how humans and robots can coexist safely and harmoniously, with its series of "human support robots".
The number of Expo 2010 visitors hit 3.19 million by 8pm on May 17 since the fair's opening on May 1, the organizers announced Monday, the Expo's 17th day.
