2010 Shanghai World Expo

The 2010 Shanghai World Expo Overview
Name: China 2010 Shanghai World Expo, referred to as: the 2010 Shanghai World Expo
English full name: The World Exposition Shanghai China 2010
short: Expo 2010 Shanghai China
Hold time: May 1, 2010 - 10 31 (184 days)Theme: City, Better Life (Better City, Better Life)

Expo Overview
World Exposition referred to as the World Expo, is an international World's Fair. It is international Expo activities that has a great influence and a long history. It is organized by the government or the department commissioned by the government of the host country. It has gone through over a hundred years of history, initially display of artwork and traditional crafts-based, then gradually turned into science technology and industrial technology exhibition, as a rare place for elementary education of industry professionals and the general public. The world exhibition not only to show technologies and products, but also accompanied by the colorful performances, full of charm spectacular scenery, set into a space full of festive atmosphere that daily life can not experience, becoming an ideal entertainment and consumption place for the general public.

Origin of World Expo 
In ancient agricultural society, people often commence trading activities when they are celebrating the harvest, religious ceremonies, auspicious festival, and later evolved to become regular, have a fixed place in order to exchange goods for the purpose of large-scale trade and display assembly. This is the earliest form of the World Expo.
The 5th century AD, Persia held an exhibition beyond the function of a market. The 18th century, as new technologies and new products emerging, people gradually thought to organize similar fairs, the purpose of the exhibition is only show not to sell, to publicize and display new products and achievements.
1791 in the capital, Prague, the Czech Republic hosted the first such exhibition. With the progress of science and technology, the development of social productive forces, the scale of the exhibition also gradually expanded, the geographical scope of exhibitors from a region to the whole country, extending from the domestic to foreign countries, until developed into a world-wide Exposition participate by many countries.