Farewell, Shanghai Expo!

Editor's Note:
Shanghai World Expo will lower its curtain on Oct 31, 2010. The 184-day Expo has been full of fun and excitement. There is so much to see, so much to enjoy and so much to remember. As we reluctantly bid farewell to the Expo, our special coverage, with various colorful pictures and stories, is dedicated to helping you recollect your Expo memories from the very beginning...

Green is the new sexy

Here come the models staging a no-carbon fashion show at the Shanghai World Expo Site. More than 40 designers from home and abroad are keen to convince you that low carbon is the new sexy.>>>

How to urbanize in a green way

The Expo forum, "Urban Development and the Green Economy", seeks to explore how to optimize economic structure while creating a green economy, so as to transform the development modes.>>>

Low-carbon is the VIP here

Pavilions are promoting green energy here in Shanghai. Low-carbon card holders will now have a chance to skip the formidable waiting line. How does that operate? Click to find out more.>>>

Let's go on a low-carbon diet

If the thought of living in a bamboo or zero-carbon house or using chairs made from recycled newspaper, or chopsticks made of chocolate biscuits, sounds a bit far-fetched, just take a look around the Shanghai World Expo.>>>

Gore: Expo keen to be green

Al Gore racked his brains to express his excitement during his three-hour visit to the Shanghai Expo. "I am humbled to say that if I need to give tips to Chinese people, my No. 1 tip would be - come and visit Shanghai Expo. They will have all the green life tips they need.">>>

Robots at your beck and call

No one really knows how long the integration of robots into daily life is going to take. Even the robots at the Japan Pavilion have not come that far from their forebears; the key difference being that they now play violins.>>>

3D map for the blind visitors

A 3D map is working wonders by giving people with visual impairments access to something they would otherwise have to do without: a tangible sense of the layout of the Expo.>>>

Hello, your fridge calls

Can you imagine a refrigerator that is smart enough to make phone calls and conduct video conversations? It might sound like something from a science fiction novel but gradually a reality at the 2010 Shanghai Expo.>>>

Space probes new horizons 

For real, here are the astronauts’ gloves. Visitors can put on a virtual space suit to simulate life as an astronaut, and to see how plants and vegetables can be grown much faster outside the earth's atmosphere.>>>

Robots dance up at Expo

France orchestrated one of the Expo’s biggest and boldest national pavilion days by introducing cutting-edge humanoid robots. It also included Music Day, its annual music festival, in the event.>>>

A house on the Moon

Swedish Mikael Genberg plans to put a traditional Swedish cottage on the Moon in 2013, a idea that has been more than 10 years in the making.>>>

The Drunken Beauty

The Drunken Beauty, an embroidery based on the famous Chinese oil painting by Liu Linghua, appeared at the Expo 2010 Shanghai recently as one of the most popular artworks of the Intangible Cultural Heritage exhibition during the Expo's Shanghai Week.>>>

So good you can bottle it

From the morning till the night, seven days a week, Abdallatif Sarhan works tirelessly creating art from colored sand and a glass bottle. The results are beautiful and intriguing sand art bottles, which are one of the most popular souvenir items at the Jordan Pavilion.>>>

'Manhattan of the Orient'

When you walk in Shanghai you can feel all these influences: Nanjing Road is definitely China, with characteristic neon signs all around; then there is Pudong, which is what we could now call the "Manhattan of the Orient"; and of course the fabulously restored Bund.>>>

Volunteers & "Expo bees"

 Heat not enough to stop Expo volunteers

Upholding the image of the nation

Leading queues from the front 

Garbage collectors unnoticed

Lucky visitors 

Crazy Expo enthusiasts 

A 56-year-old man completed a marathon 32-day, 1,200-km Yangtze River swim from Wuhan to Shanghai to draw attention to heavy pollution in the waterway. [Full story] 

An adventure involving sailing the oceans, traversing continents on foot or by bicycle, and climbing the highest peak on each, has brought Swiss adventurer Dario-Andri Schworer and his family to Expo .[Full story]

After a trip of 1,500 kilometers on a raft made of plastic bottles, Xia Yu finally arrived in Shanghai on Oct 4 - but he was not able to fulfill his dream of sailing into the Expo 2010 Shanghai. [Full story]

Tomiyo Yamada, a 61-year-old Japanese housewife, finished her first round of touring Shanghai Expo on June 7 with 38 consecutive days of visits and 373 pavilion visits. [Full story]

The 51-year-old Japanese composer plans to collect 500 pins by the end of Expo 2010 Shanghai to commemorate his best friend, Takakura Toshikazu, who died of lung cancer in 2006. [Full story]

A Qatari man's mission is to collect Expo souvenir pins from all the pavilions...[Full story]

 
 Poland Pavilion

 
 MeteoWorld Pavilion

 
 Expo-themed silver bars hit the market

 
 Teacher gives students a meaningful Expo experience