The story of four people and the World Expo

What is the World Expo? A thousand people in China may have a thousand interpretations. About the World Expo, the earliest memory of Chinese people may involve the legend of a broken wine bottle 90 years ago: 19 15 At the Panama World Expo, Maotai became famous and won the gold medal. In fact, the China delegation won as many as 12 18 medals that year. Then there is the World Expo in Kunming, Yunnan. Many people think that the Expo has something to do with planting flowers and grass.

Expo 20 10 will probably revise China people's understanding of the Expo, and the Expo will appear in the image closest to its true colors, that is, an international large-scale exhibition showing human achievements in social, economic, cultural and scientific fields. It is estimated that 200 countries and international organizations will participate in the exhibition, and the number of visitors from all over the world will exceed 70 million.

Now, around this grand event, Shanghai is accumulating unprecedented strength. The planning model in the Expo Bureau Building on Pudong South Road shows that the most developed city in China can't wait to become an international city: Shanghai will complete the construction of the Expo Park covering an area of about 5.28 square kilometers along the Huangpu River in the next three years. The project is expected to relocate 65,438+08,000 households and 272 enterprises.

It is no exaggeration to say that Shanghai, which gave birth to China's modern industry, will be given a third life.

Some people hope, some people marvel, and more people are quietly changing their destiny. These people and stories have happened and continue. It reminds us that the World Expo is no stranger.

Li Yu: I raised the red flag in the Expo site.

Li Yu, 52, was one of the first people to bid for the Shanghai World Expo. She joined the Shanghai World Expo Office on 200 1. Before that, he also participated in the curatorial work of the Yunnan World Expo, and he may be one of the people who participated in the Expo for the longest time in China.

In Li Yu's eyes, it is a natural thing to hold the World Expo in Shanghai.

Shanghai began planning to bid for the World Expo as early as the mid-1980s. Wang Daohan, the mayor of Shanghai at that time, first put forward his intention to bid for the World Expo, but there was not even a bridge on the Huangpu River in Shanghai at that time. After the delegation of the Bureau of International Exhibitions visited, they shook their heads. What should we do if so many tourists cross the river? Later, the construction of Shanghai Yangpu Bridge and nanpu bridge can be traced back to the stimulus of the failure of the Expo.

1999, Kunming, Yunnan successfully held the World Horticultural Exposition. Although it was only a professional World Expo, the success of Kunming rekindled Shanghai's desire to bid for the World Expo. In the same year, Shanghai resumed the feasibility study of bidding for the World Expo, and formally put forward the bid for the World Expo in 2000.

Li Yu, his main task is how to show the style and concept of the Expo when China people generally lack understanding of the Expo.

Unfortunately, China's library not only lacks similar materials, but even has no precedent for systematically displaying the history of the World Expo around the world. It is completely "self-made".

He went to the headquarters of the Paris International Exhibition Bureau seven times. He drafted corruption, took photos and copied materials in the database of the International Exhibition Bureau, and worked hard for dozens of days. "Of the thousands of books, only two are about China."

When the illustrated information exhibition was completed and the history of "China was the first person to participate in the World Expo" was rediscovered, even the delegation of the Bureau of International Expositions who visited Shanghai again in 2002 could not help but be greatly surprised. "Only Shanghai has done this." They said.

However, Li Yu's most memorable moment was the moment when the Bureau of International Exhibitions announced that Shanghai had successfully bid for the 20 10 World Expo in February 2002. At that time, the news of Shanghai's successful Olympic bid was transmitted from the venue to the off-site by SMS. Li Yu, who was waiting outside the venue, jumped on the escalator and raised the first bright red five-star red flag at the exhibition bureau. Afterwards, my colleague asked him in surprise, how did you run such a long escalator in only five or six seconds?

Wu Zhiqiang: I beat the table to leave a legacy.

Twenty years ago, when Wu Zhiqiang was a graduate student at Tongji University, his topic was about the development of Pudong and the improvement and improvement of Shanghai's urban functions. He was impressed. 1986 He copied the first English information about the World Expo from the school library, and saw that the World Expo in the information was "brand-new architecture and brand-new planning". In short, "everything is new".

No one expected that 20 years later, when he finally became the master planner of the Shanghai World Expo, in order to preserve the old buildings, he took a table in front of the experts of the International Exhibition Bureau.

Jiangnan Shipyard is located in the planned Expo Park. After many field visits to the former site of Jiangnan Shipyard, Wu Zhiqiang was moved by the tears of the old workers facing the old factory buildings and warehouses. He was surrounded by them again and again, and was pointed out again and again, where is the birthplace of the first periodic table of chemical elements in China, and where is the dock where the earliest ship broke down and set sail in China ... Finally, Wu Zhiqiang, the whole design team and the Shanghai World Expo Bureau are determined to preserve the historical heritage symbolizing the birthplace of modern industry in China.

Unexpectedly, this move was resolutely opposed by the representatives of the Bureau of International Exhibitions, on the grounds that the World Expo will always be a stage for new technologies and new buildings, and the only attempt in history to preserve the old-an old office building was preserved at the Hanover World Expo in 2000-was also accused by tourists of destroying the tourist route and failed.

Experts jumped up and questioned, but Wu Zhiqiang insisted that it was true. He even patted the table: "These heritages are not only the heritage of Shanghai's modern industry, but also the heritage of mankind."

After breaking up in discord, "we spent half a year making renderings, making models and making plans." When the overall plan was submitted again, the effect was surprisingly good. They were dumbfounded and finally accepted. "

According to the plan, the whole Expo Park will retain 250,000 square meters of old buildings, equivalent to one third of the total buildings. They will be transformed into exhibition halls, office centers, service places and leisure facilities. For example, a special steel workshop with an area of tens of thousands of square meters in Pugang Steel Plant will be transformed into the opening place of the grand event.

Chen Xiangting: Rebirth of Steel Works

Chen Xiangting took the camera in her hand and chose to bid farewell to Pugang. He entered the factory at 198 1, and has worked here for 26 years, only a quarter of the history of the old factory.

The final site of the 20 10 Shanghai World Expo is Huangpu River, which is an old industrial area in the city center with many factories, which means that more than ten large and small enterprises, including Pugang and Jiangnan Shipyard, have to move.

Pugang, founded in 19 13, has experienced the Japanese occupation period, the war of liberation, the public-private partnership after the founding of New China, and then the reform and opening up, and is one of the birthplaces of China's iron and steel industry.

When she proposed her intention to move in 2003, Chen Xiangting, like many workers, was in a panic. Can the project of the new factory be approved? Where does the large investment in building a new factory come from? Of course, the biggest worry is whether the factory will close down. "One hundred years of history, the end in our hands, dare not think ah".

This kind of worry seems to be worrying now, but the location of the World Expo has given the century-old factory a golden opportunity to be reborn. The new factory is located in Luo Jing, Baoshan, and has introduced advanced smelting technology, with an investment as high as10 billion.

Although it used to take Chen Xiangting 20 minutes to go to work in the factory every day, it now takes two hours. But on the day when she met the reporter, Chen Xiangting said that she was lucky, because the old factory of 100 was revived in her generation because of the World Expo.

Nostalgia is inevitable. /kloc-when the factory building on the 0/6th floor-once the tallest building in Pudong-was bombed, many old workers came, and some even shed tears. As a staff member of the relocation and land acquisition project department, Chen Xiangting also watched the blasting at the scene and recorded this historical moment with a camera. In fact, in the past few years, he has taken thousands of photos and recorded the whole track of the relocation of Pugang.

Master Cao: The barber's old house and new house.

Together with those old factories, there are nearly 20 thousand shanty town residents, which is the largest single demolition and resettlement project in Shanghai.

Master Cao is a barber who lives in Zhoujiadu, just a stone's throw from the old city on the other side. There is another name here: "the corner of summer", which used to mean "the place where the inferior people live", but now it is synonymous with clutter.

Until Master Cao retired, Zhoujiadu was always forgotten by the pace of urban transformation. There have been several stories of demolition in the community, "every time it is a white joy." Until the success of the Expo, Master Cao saw that people were always wandering around the alley with instruments, thinking that there was a competition this time.

Life in the old city is nostalgic for outsiders, but Master Cao's family realized the unspeakable inconvenience: "Every day, we have to go to the water collection station to fetch water, wash clothes and make the Huangpu River. Later, the river became more and more dirty, and my clothes could not be washed clean. "

/kloc-in the mid-1990s, the old couple renovated the original shack and added a layer. After the three sons and one daughter came of age, the house was secretly added to the third floor. "No one is in charge, it is illegal to violate the rules", but it is still very cramped.

In recent years, Shanghai's housing prices have soared, and the dream of a new home has become more and more distant, and then almost desperate. Master Cao has a pension of 1000 yuan, and so does his wife. Several children have no decent jobs after graduation. After the eldest son got married, he gave birth to a granddaughter and lived in the attic upstairs.

When the relocation plan for the World Expo first came out, the old people were assigned a three-bedroom apartment and a two-bedroom apartment according to the original shack area, which was almost twice the original area.

Because of a disabled son, the government gave an extra room of 10 square meter.

Master Cao went through the resettlement procedures in the first batch. In return, he got the priority to choose a house. Finally, he and his eldest son lived in an apartment across the hall. "Shanghai dialect is called a bowl of soup." The other room is upstairs, reserved for the youngest son's wedding.

This new home is now in the Expo home. The community is well planned and there is an activity room for the elderly, but Master Cao seldom goes. Although he is still not used to life here, he said, "I am very satisfied and thank the government."

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