scene of the ground-breaking ceremony
Zhong Yanqun, fulltime deputy director of the World Expo 2010 Shanghai Executive Committee, delivers a speech.
Chih Kang Wang, chairman of the Taipei World Trade Center, gives a speech.
a model of the Taiwan Pavilion
an artist's rendition of the Taiwan Pavilion
Construction began on the Taiwan Pavilion for the 2010 World Expo yesterday despite its deadliest typhoon in half a century that has also brought great economic loss.
Taiwan will keep its 200 million yuan (US$29.26 million) budget to build its pavilion at the 2010 World Expo site, a top official involved in the island's Expo participation made the assurance in Shanghai yesterday.
But the Taiwan organizer had halted private fund raising for the pavilion across the island and would not restart until after rescue and relief work were finished, said Chih Kang Wang, chairman of the Taipei World Trade Center, the organization that will be responsible for Taiwan Pavilion at the 2010 World Expo.
The 1,000-square-meter Taiwan Pavilion will be a transparent cube housing a giant ball in its center.
The pavilion will be mainly made of steel and glass, with the outlines of the island's Mount Morrison and Mount Ali painted on the facade.
The main part of the pavilion will be built with stone from Jade Mountain and soil from Yin-Ko Town.
Its exhibition theme is "Mountain, Water, Heart and Lantern."
The pavilion would showcase the island's scenery, its kind-hearted people and culture, said C. Y. Lee, chief designer of the pavilion as well as Taipei 101, one of the world's tallest skyscrapers.
Editor: Yang Jian
