State Councilor and Minister of Public Security Meng  ianzhu inspects security preparations within the Expo site.

    BEIJING, April 6 — China’s Minister Public Security Meng Jianzhu yesterday inspected Shanghai’s preparation for Expo 2010 and visited security guards and volunteers at the Expo site. He came to Shanghai after visiting Expo-related security works in Shanghai’s neighboring cities, including Suzhou.

    Meng, who is also a state councilor, stressed that the city should work out more detailed and strict measures to ensure the security of the World Expo as there was only 27 days left before the event starts.

    Yesterday morning, he looked over security check points at the Expo site and inquired about police force deployment and emergency plans. He pointed out that the success of the security work lies in details. Security work within the Expo site was the vital part of the event, which includes license check, transport and logistic security, fire safety and emergency plans, he added.

    At the Nanmatou police station of Pudong New Area, Meng asked about the work to issue vehicle passes for automobiles entering Shanghai. He said that the application process should be as conveniently as possible for the public, and reduce impact on people’s daily life.

    Meng also visited Shanghai’s Hongqiao Transportation Hub. He inspected the information service centre, bus hubs, Metro entrance, the terminal of the Hongqiao Airport and the security check points in the airport. He said that the security work was a complicated task, involving various aspects of Shanghai’s management. The city had to fully integrate its resources to implement .

(Source: www.en.expo2010.cn)

 Beijing Pavilion is transformed into the Bird’s Nest.

    BEIJING, April 6 — Eighty large LED panels will transform the Beijing Pavilion structure into four iconic city buildings - the Temple of Heaven, the National Aquatics Center, better known as the Water Cube, the Bird’s Nest, and National Grand Theater.     

    Each transformation takes about 10 seconds, designers revealed yesterday.     

    Chinese director Zhang Yimou has finished filming a five-minute movie to be played in the Beijing Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo, a senior official of the Expo organizer said yesterday as construction and outfitting finished in the pavilion.     

    The film, about a foreign tourist’s one-day visit to Beijing, is in its final edit and will be sent to a 50-seat theater in the pavilion for testing early next week, said Xu Yuwei, vice chairman of China Council for the Promotion of International Trade Beijing Sub-Council.     

    The movie will highlight many different sounds that the traveler hears in the city, including Beijing accents and Peking Opera. It will be played every 12 minutes.     

    The 600-square-meter pavilion in the joint-provincial building will showcase the city’s hosting of 2008 Beijing Olympics and the ceremony at the 60th anniversary of People’s Republic of China last October through videos and exhibits with the theme “Charming Capital.”

(Source: www.en.expo2010.cn)

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    BEIJING, April 2 (Xinhua) — A senior official of the Communist Party of China (CPC) met Friday with Saeed Jalili, visiting Iranian chief nuclear negotiator and Secretary of Supreme National Security Council.

    Wang Jiarui, head of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee, said that China supported maintaining the validity of the international nuclear nonproliferation system and believed that the Iran nuclear issue should be addressed through dialogue and negotiation, so as to safeguard peace and stability in the Middle East.

    Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo met with Jalili in Beijing Thursday. The two had frank and in-depth exchanges on China-Iran relations and issues of mutual concern. Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi held talks with Jalili on the same day.