Beijing had its day with the Olympic Games – now it's Shanghai's turn.
The gigantic World Expo is an innovation extravaganza taking place in China's business capital, with countries and corporations from all over the world exhibiting their most cutting-edge products.
Set to run for 6 months, the Expo's budget eclipses that even of the Olympics.
Its official cost is $28 billion but some estimate the total investment may be as much as $95 billion, taking into account huge infrastructure projects including new highways and subway lines.
Qianmen Street is one of the most important commercial streets in beijing. It was built in 1550. Government rebuilt the Qianmen street in the year 2008. New Qianmen Street is not open for public traffic, it is a pedestrian street, the only vehicle on this street is railroad car. there are over 800 shops on this street, and 80 of them are hundreds of years old. Jewellery market is also a very marked characteristic of Qianmen street. Beside the traditional jewellery shops, some jewellery firms from hongkong or other area of the world are going to open business here.
Recently, China announced its lifting of its entry ban on foreign carriers of the virus. BON interviews Chinese people on the street to find out what they think about this announcement.
With corruption cropping up in many areas of society as we've just heard, we asked ordinary Chinese citizens for their views on the topic. Here's what they had to say in today's edition of Straight from the Street.