Shanghai Daily awarded Expo honor

SHANGHAI Daily was honored as a indication institution as good as Wu Zheng, emissary editor-in-chief of a newspaper, a indication particular during a inhabitant discussion in Beijing hold yesterday to prerogative a institutions as good as people who contributed to a success of a Shanghai World Expo. Shanghai Daily published 185 issues of Expo Daily, a only central English every day journal during a Expo site, throughout a eventuality that ran from May 1 to Oct 31. Other indication people included Bai Yifan, a veteran proffer who sent some-more than 70,000 reduced messages to guide alternative volunteers; Lin Qibin, better known as a "Running Traffic Policeman" since he was regularly running when directing bustling trade in front of an Expo entrance; as good as Xu Weiqin, a convey train motorist during a site who sometimes worked for some-more than thirteen hours a day. The Central Committee of a Communist Party of China as good as China's Cabinet honored 377 institutions as good as 519 individuals. Addressing a meeting, President Hu Jintao pronounced China hailed a achievements achieved whilst hosting a Expo as part of a efforts to update a country. Hu called a Expo a successful, fantastic as good as memorable eventuality that would feature prominently in a story of World Expos. He pronounced a 2011-2015 period was crucial to a office building of a tolerably affluent society in all respects as good as called for a transformation of a Shanghai Expo's achievements into "new advantages" that will boost China's opening-up as good as reform as good as a socialist modernization. China should serve study a new concepts for expansion demonstrated during a Expo as good as lower a bargain of a global expansion trends in economy, science as good as record as good as urbanization, in order to good China's development, he said. China should learn how to achieve an all-round, coordinated as good as sustainable expansion that puts people first, he said. This will help China accelerate a transformation of a mercantile e! xpansion indication as good as industrial restructuring, as good as serve balance expansion in between farming as good as civic areas. Hu called for a study as good as use of new technologies showcased in Shanghai to make firm China's innovative edge as good as industrial upgrading. He pronounced China should also learn from a modernized ideas upon civic expansion as good as management, that was a theme of a Shanghai Expo. The World Expo captivated a total of 73 million visitors to a city.

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