Shanghai World Expo 2010 passed its first test on April 20 (Tuesday) as 200,000 enthusiastic visitors flocked to the site for a glance at the cultural gala. About 70 percent of Expo pavilions and facilities participated in Tuesday's trial opening. To test Expo's capability of handling ticketing, security, parking, traffic, dining and sanitary facilities, the event opened to around 200,000 tourists on Tuesday, half the amount expected to visit the site on a typical day once it is formally up and running.
Yet without any previous guidance or advice, Tuesday's soft opening started with a large number of visitors - most of them ordinary people - cramming into the Expo site on Tuesday morning via the main entrances on Yaohua Road in Pudong.
Security checks at the entrances had to be canceled to disperse the long lines of visitors, who might otherwise have had to wait hours to pass through X-ray scans of their hand luggage.
Overcrowding also affected pavilions in the Pudong section of Expo garden. Pavilions for the UK, Australia and Germany were forced to close around noon due to the congestion.
China pavilion, the host
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Humanity strives for perfection in everything it does. "Perfection" referring to efficiency, the best way of doing something- the idea that, things can be done without waste or over-emphatic use of resources. Take garden watering, for example, which has traditionally been one of the least efficient gardening practices of all. With drip irrigation systems, even the daily and weekly water has entered the sci-fi realms of the 21st century.
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Large number of visitors were deeply attracted by the epitome of this southern city with 2500-year history.
Walked into the Expo site in Puxi Area E, approached Suzhou Pavilion, the immediate presentation was a exquisite southern ancient city. Stone bridge, garden, ancient well, bamboo ...... fully showed the charm of Suzhou Watertown. The most impressive thing of Suzhou Pavilion was the Chinese ink painting on the huge two-story facade. The mural was based on the painting created by the well-known landscape painter in Suzhou - Liu Maoshan. Those views with appropriate distance were respectively drawn by means of three processes - jet-drawing, painting, hand-painting. It's said that in order to one-time success, each action was very careful. It took two weeks to complete the whole mural, and it became the unique huge Chinese ink painting. Visitors followed the slope of the old bridge, slowly walked towards the entrance of Suzhou Pavilion. On the slope, many tourists enjoyed the ink painting on the side, or were busy taking photos.
Entered Suzhou Pavilion along the slope, reached the core area of the hall. Here using upper and lower thermocline of the wall inside