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Warm welcome for Expo in Yangzhou

The Shanghai World Expo's promotion in Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province, has been warmly received by residents

Huang Yaocheng, counselor for national participation with the Bureau of Shanghai World Expo Coordination, gives a speech to Yangzhou people on the World Expo.

Organizers are holding exhibitions and giving speeches on the history of the World Expo in the Yangzhou Library.

scene of the speech

Audiences wait outside the speech hall.

They also encouraged Yangzhou people to collect World Expo material and make suggestions for the Shanghai event.

Local media interview the Expo organizers.

Some residents discovered that a brand of cosmetics from Yangzhou won an Expo prize in 1915, said Shen Yamin, director of the Yangzhou Library, who organized the promotion campaign with the Bureau of Shanghai World Expo Coordination and Yangzhou Television Station.