Just to give you an idea of the size of Shanghai and the regeneration there, here are a couple of images of a scaled down model of the city taken by Liverpool Vision’s Chris Heyes from a recent visit to Shanghai:

 

It`s been all about staffing , 3D Films and sorting out our uniform designs this week.Â
I have been busy preparing for my trip out to Shanghai on Sunday and have a packed schedule to get through over there but am very much looking forward to meeting with the team out in Shanghai who are working [...]

I am part of the admin team so I am involved with a little bit about everything!  I can’t wait to see the final production of the AV material with the design for the pavilion being so spectacular.  Time is racing past and I can’t believe  there is only a couple of months before the [...]

Wow things are really moving along at a fast pace in Expo World!  The team are on site and starting to build, the filming of the 3D footage for the main theatre area is completed and the final finishing touches are being put in place.  As the pavilion technical and operations manager I am currently [...]

I carried out a successful visit to resolve technical and logistical issues surrounding our Expo presence.  Our pavilion is now really taking shape as is the Expo Site itself.  We now have been issued with our construction permit and the works both inside and outside of our pavilion are now completed to allow us to [...]

‘This is the end of the beginning, and now we can really begin’ (Prof Zhou Hanmin, Expo Bureau) were the words that opened the Fourth Participants meeting in Shanghai last week. This signifies that there will be no more preparatory briefings, Expo has truly begun. Two hundred countries, one hundreds international organisations and fifty cities, represented [...]

So, for once, the rumours were true. London has pulled out of next year’s Expo and Liverpool will be the only UK city with a dedicated presence. It’s hardly earth shattering news. With the Olympics just three years away and intense competition for public money and private sector sponsorship, something had to give. It’s understandable [...]

Why visit the United Kingdom using Liverpool as your entry point?
Philip Southward, Director of Operations for the project, explains why Liverpool is uniquely positioned to attract Chinese tourists to use the city as a base for exporing the North West and the United Kingdom.
Since taking over the role of Director of Operations in December 2008, [...]

Peter Smith, Liverpool Vision marketing manager, considers the challenges of promoting Liverpool’s participation at World Expo in Shanghai.
Liverpool has a great story to tell at the World Expo in Shanghai. Its transformation over the past decade has been positive and dramatic. But telling that story in the frenzied atmosphere of the biggest and longest Expo [...]

Oliver Hayakawa of the Liverpool Shanghai Partnership reports from Shanghai on the mood in China.
A year ago the world was months away from witnessing one of the most spectacular Olympic Games ever held. For 17 days all eyes, including many sceptical ones, were fixed on Beijing. However once the curtains were drawn at the closing [...]