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[quote=MARRIE,361142]Shanghai promises "active role" in bringing U.S. to World Expo  
 
 
www.chinaview.cn  2009-03-04 10:14:38     
 
 NPC,  CPPCC Annual Sessions 2009

BEIJING, March 4 (Xinhua) -- Shanghai is to actively help bring the United States to the Shanghai World Expo 2010 as the deadline for inking exhibit contract is just about a month away, said Hong Hao, director of the Expo coordination bureau, on Tuesday.

"The U.S. government has authorized an institution to raise fund for attendance to the Expo," Hong said, giving no details on the institution.

"We'll make joint efforts with the U.S. government to enable the country to come," said Hong, a deputy to the National People's Congress (NPC), which is to start its annual session Thursday.

Unlike most other countries, the United States must privately fund the exhibit. A 1991 U.S. law prohibits government financing of such events.

There was no U.S. exhibit at the 2000 Expo in Hanover, Germany, nor at the one in Zaragoza, Spain last year. In 2005, the U.S. pavilion at the Aichi, Japan Expo was built only with help from a big company.

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