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More than 900 parades involving 23 floats will be staged at the Expo site through the 184-day event.

Three routes have been designed, covering 2.6 kilometers in total. Two will be in the Pudong New Area, the main venue of the Expo site, and one will be in Puxi, passing by corporate pavilions.

Fireworks light up the sky over the Huangpu River as colored lights play on fountains at last night's grand opening ceremony for the 2010 World Expo, attended by thousands of spectators and some 20 world leaders. The six-month fair, expected to attract more than 70 million visitors from home and abroad, officially opens today.

Pavilion Features

The Vancouver Pavilion is an innovative structure that shows the versatility of wood by combining conventional linear elements with unexpected spherical elements. The Pavilion is designed with green building materials. The exposed wood structure contains exhibits that will encourage visitors to explore the advantages of building with wood.

Pavilion Features

The pavilion promises a dream-like light fantasy on its surface. It will take visitors on an interactive fun journey exploring cutting-edge information and communication technologies, their applications and influence over the next 10 years and how they will help usher in a convenient and better life.

Pavilion Features

The pavilion gets its simple yet unique design idea from our earth. The DNA sculpture, which utilizes the membrane structure, rises high into the sky and glows under sunshine; while the square architectures down to the earth hold up the everlasting pursuit and dream for a steady life. Supported by pillars, the whole pavilion is half a meter off the ground with its reflection inverted in the water below.

Pavilion Features

The Private Enterprises Joint Pavilion is undertaken by a group of well-known private Chinese businesses. Taking insights from the structure of cells, the structure of the pavilion resembles an organic combination of cells, thanks to its curved design that radiates with rich colors and expressive displays, which differs from the linear design normally adopted by buildings made of steel and glass. The pavilion consists of 19.5 cylinders, with varied heights and a fluid line design for the exterior outline. For the first time, external wall adopts intelligent light-reflective aluminum membranes on its facade, which helps create varying visual effects in line with its changing angles and differing positions of sun lighting. In the evening, the whole pavilion will take on an illuminating and splendid look with the help of videos, images, lighting, stereo equipment, and unique performances.

Pavilion Features

The pavilion looks like a "magic cube" suspended in space. Supported by intricate pillars, it will give a feeling of space disorder and arouse the visitors' desire for exploration. The design tries to convey the concepts of "technology", "energy" and "space" with a sense of simplicity. Based on the core concepts of "sky (outer space), land (city) and man (the e

Pavilion Features

The pavilion in silver resembles a huge metal bowl along the Huangpu River in the Puxi section of the Expo site. Its external spiral design conveys a sense of modernity. The metallic design as well as the smooth and fluid lines of the pavilion's exterior is evocative of an automobile body. The pavilion exterior is cloaked in 4,000 recycled aluminum panels of slightly different sizes, tilt angles and surface cambers to give its outer shell a smooth and seamless appearance.

Pavilion Features

Located to the west of the Huanpu River, the Corporate Pavilion of Vanke, a top Chinese property developer, consists of seven gold straw houses that graciously display the health and vigor of life. The pavilion, with its facade made of wheat straw, comprises seven independent tube-shaped buildings with their tops connected through blue light-filtering ETFE plastic films. The seven tube-shaped buildings are surrounded by over 1,000 square meters of water. With the water reflecting the sky, visitors will experience the intimacy with nature.

Pavilion Features

The inspiration for the pavilion comes from Confucius' view of jade. The great ancient scholar of China had summarized 11 virtues of jade, among which five have been well accepted and passed on, including "benevolence, righteousness, manners, wisdom, and credit," all symbolizing virtues which should be carried on. The exhibition will continue those virtues and develop them in line with new city styles, expressing the Expo theme of "Better City, Better Life."