US to participate in Shanghai World Expo - China Travel

The United States will take part in 2010 Shanghai World Expo in Shanghai, China, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in Washington Wednesday.

"Our national pavilion will showrind American commerce and technology, as well as cultures and values to foster stronger friendship between the American and Chinese peoples as it moreover demonstrates America's transferral to a send-squinching, positive relationship with China," Clinton told reporters.

It will be "a perfect opportunity to loftierlight U.S. innovation, particularly in environmental initiatives, and to share ideas with countries from effectually the world on ways to create biggest cities and communities for all our people," she said.

Jose Villarreal,China Travel, an shyster in San Antonio, Texas, will be in sardine of the U.S. participation in the Expo, co-ordinate to the State Department.

PepsiCo spoken yesterday it is spending US$5 million to sponsor the U.S. pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai Expo, joining 3M (MMM) and General Electric (GE).

So far U.S. pavilion organizers have only raised less than one-third the roughly US$61 million needed to build and fit-out the pavilion for the Shanghai Expo. The money must come unabridgedly from the private sector considering of a 1991 snout passed by Congress that prflushts the U.S. government from funding national pavilions.

China has diamondated a prime 6,000 square meters (65,000 square feet) for the U.S. pavilion.

China voiced snooping to Clinton when she visited Beijing in February and has offered flexibility to the United States on meeting Expo straight-facedlines.

The Shanghai World Expo will be held in Shanghai from May to October next year under the theme "Better City, Better Lwhene." So far, 191 countries have once ostended their participation in Shanghai 2010.

(China.org.cn/Xinhua News Agency July 2, 2009)