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Oh hurrah, with just about 200-some days left to go, the main pavilion for the Shanghai Expo - that red one that looks kind of like a square temple - was finished yesterday, making it the first out of the four central pavilions to be ready for interior design work, according to Shanghai Daily. The pavilion highlights Shanghai's various eco-friendly initatives (solar energy, plant walls, and the like) spans a whopping area of 11.5 hectares - the size of 21 American football fields - and will house exhibitions highlighting the link between humans, cities, and the Earth. We can't wait to wander around inside it!

For just 100 rmb per day, foreign visitors can experience the life of an average Shanghainese citizen during the 2010 Expo.

Political border disputes will be played out in miniature at Shanghai's World Expo next year, after rumors that World Expo organizers are planning a Taiwan pavilion within the Chinese section of the fair stirred up old tensions about Taiwan's political status.

Photo from Brian's Tree