Friday, December 19, 2008

500 days to Shanghai World EXPO

More on the Shanghai World Expo in this piece from CCTV via YouTube. Following our piece on the missing US presence, you can get a sense of the scale of what the Chinese are building in Shanghai.

2 comments:

Ryan Petersen said...

I rode my bike through the WorldExpo site back in 2005 when it was still a quaint old neighborhood. They had just started to knock a few of them down, but there were still people living there. I'm curious where they all ended up...

Paul Woodward said...

Most likely in very ugly new apartment buildings in the suburbs which have sprung up like a very bad rash around the outskirts of the city.