Expo fever reaches Macau trade fair

the Shanghai World Expo exhibition
A visitor from Greece finds her country from all the Shanghai World Expo participants

Opening ceremony of the 13th Macau International Trade and Investment Fair

Visitors pose in front of a Haibao status.

A Shanghai World Expo exhibition opened at the largest annual trade and investment fair in Macau yesterday
The exhibit was being held in a 500-square-meter area at the 13th Macau International Trade and Investment Fair.
The Shanghai Expo exhibit features a virtual tour of the Expo 2010 site, models of national pavilions as well as progress updates.
The Special Administrative Region government has also arranged an exhibition on Macau’s Urban Best Practice Area exhibit, the Tak Seng On Pawnshop.
Macau will create a "visual presentation" of the restoration of the pawnshop, one of its most important cultural sites, at Expo 2010.
Tak Seng On Pawnshop was built in 1917 and was Macau's largest pawnshop in the first half of the 20th century. Its fortunes gradually declined until it was finally closed in 1993.
The special administrative government restored the old pawnshop in 2001 and turned it into a museum.
The facility has attracted more than 40,000 visitors since its opening in 2003.
Edmund Ho Hau Wah, Chief Executive of the Macau Special Administrative Region, and Francis Tam Pak Yuen, Secretary for Economy and Finance of Macau, visited the Shanghai World Expo exhibition on the fair.
The 13th Macau International Trade and Investment Fair will be held from October 23 to 26.