Expo organizers remain busy in holidays
Members of the Bureau of the Shanghai World Expo Coordination yesterday started their new year's busy schedule, giving up the rest of their seven-day holiday which should conclude on Saturday.
A series of meetings are on the bureau's agenda for the five trial operations at the Expo site in April. Topics are traffic, security, performance schedules as well as services for participants and media.
Wang Liping, project director of Expo Shanghai Online, said his team is busy collecting participants' materials as a new version of Online Expo (www.expo.cn) is set for mid March.
Meanwhile, thousands of construction workers are keeping toiling around the clock at the Expo site as constructions are in the final sprint.
Chen Lipu, a Beijing official in charge of Hong Kong's pavilion at the Urban Best Practices Area, said he and other workers involved in the project spent the holiday at the site.
"Time is pressing and the pavilion's steel structure is complicated. If we can maintain the momentum, we can finish it by the end of March," he said.
Editor: Echo Hu
Security guards patrol the site.
Construction workers keep toiling around the clock at the Expo site.
