Reported by Expo website in 21st April, this morning, the press conference, publicity week for Shanghai Expo and get closer to Expo, is released in Tinajin. Xu Wei, spokesman from Shanghai Expo Bureau introduced the progress of the preparation of the Shanghai Expo and the schedule for publicity week in Tianji to about 40 medias home and abroad. Li Peisheng, deputy director of Tianjin Commerce Council and organizing committee office of 2010 Shanghai World Expo introduces how Tianjin is making its joint effort to the preparation for Expo. Li Bin, deputy director of foreign office of Tianjin Municipal government.

Li Peisheng says, Tianjin municipal committee and municipal government pay great attention to the participation of the organization of Shanghai World Expo.  The organizing committee office of 2010 Shanghai World Expo has been built up in Tianjin participated by 15 municipal departments and led by Huang Xingguo, mayor of Tianjin. The general assembly for mobilization is followed with the papers of advice on how to participate in the organization work for Shanghai World Expo has been given out by government offices, an overall start of Tianjin’s participation.  Tianjin will help to prepare the work for China exhibition area in the Expos, internet exhibition for the Expo, best practice city and maintenance of forums and other entertainment activities.

News says that the preparation work for Tianjin Pavilion exhibition of Shanghai World Expo is going well. Program will be planned on the  asis of characteristic of TianJin resources and urban development. Its unique charm and great promotion of the revolution and opening of the Binhai new city will be presented in the 600-square – meter exhibition hall. Currently, the 3 expert committees made of Tianjin well-known folk experts, writers, economists and construction experts are drafting thematic presentations of which the content will be finalized after a comprehensive review. In addition to that, the project of Tianjin Dongli model residential area is selected among the total 106 candidate projects, becoming one of the best case of urban living area. Now the project is under research and will be in display.

The exhibition of Tianjin publicity week of Shanghai World Expo & Introduction of Expo is held from 22nd April to 28th April. The exhibition is held with the theme of “better city, better life” and the introduction is made based on two main threads of the 150-year history of Expo and the relationship of China and World Expo. With 200 historical photos and some precious products in display, it makes a comprehensive introduction of the various exhibitions held world widely during the years of 1851 to 2005, of the original of Expo, its development history and the relationships between Expo, modern civilization and culture development. The special design of the Tianjin and Expo traced back on the products manufactured in Tinajin won awards on Expo. The renowned folk art of Willow youth painting, colorful clay figurines and Wei Kate received golden award in the 1915 US San Francisco and Panama Expo. In 1926, of the "Red Triangle card" Soda produced by Tianjin Soda Plant Wynn won the Gold Award in Philadelphia Expo, which is a breakthrough of the achievement of China chemical products in the world. The exhibition also looked back the world garden expo held in Kunming in 1999 and Tianjin pavilion exhibition in Aichi World Expo in 2005.

The publicity week involves a series of activities, including the exhibition of Getting closer to the Expo held in Tianjin Museum with an exhibiting area of 2,200 square meters. Forum on tendency of digital exhibiting techniques and lecture with the theme of Expos, world festivals and the challenges & opportunities China is meeting will be separately held on 23rd April and 26th April in the multi-functional meeting room in the Museum. In the meanwhile, some activities like concerts and disclosure on the slogan designed for Expo are carried out at Nankai University. The Shanghai World Expo is greatly promoted among the university students.

At the press conference, media puts forwards a lot of questions on the Mascot of Haibao of the Shanghai Expo, how Tianjin will participate the organization work, and how Tianjin will seize the opportunity to make its local development.

The series activity of publicity week of Shanghai World Expo is launched national-widely from 5th August. The press conference is held in the city of Shanghai, Jiangsu, Beijing, Zhejiang, Chongqing, Guangdong, Yunnan, Guizhou and Heibei. The exhibition tour of “Getting closer to World Expo, an introduction to the history of World Expo ” attracts 800 thousand visitors from all over the country