These are pictures I took of visitors to the Expo 2010 during a random walk in central Shanghai. The texts are from China in Diagrams 1978-2008, China Intercontinental Press.

2. The World Expo 2010 in Shanghai
was intended to show
the future urban world
to the people of China.

12. By 2006,
illiteracy among the young in China
had dropped to 3.58 percent.

20. In 2006
134 000 Chinese students
were studying outside China.

27. In 2008
Chinese researchers total 1.36 million,
ranking second in the word

36. By the end of 2007,
the basic old-age insurance scheme
had 201.37 million members.

48. China would not develop without the world
and the global prosperity will not be possible
without the prosperity of China.

68. These images are dedicated to
the unknown persons
I met in the streets of Shanghai.
They shared with me
their happiness and pride
for the progress of China.
© Jan-Henrik Johansson
Shanghai, October 20, 2010