The Washington Post: Shanghai World Expo in the end how much was spent?
“Washington Post” on April 19 reported that Shanghai is in full swing to prepare the most expensive in the history of the occasion of Expo, Chinese officials apparently believe that, with the luxury, like the Beijing Olympics next month and will continue to start in October this year, the World Expo is another show to a global audience of China’s rise and prosperity opportunities. To this end, the World Expo Shanghai is best to carry out a large number of infrastructure projects including the construction of a subway line and a new terminal building.
However, the Beijing Olympic Games are barely over one and a half for most of the classic Olympic venues have been built into the vacant, abandoned or even state.
To open a model home of the “Bird’s Nest” stadium as an example. Since the Olympic Games opened luxury model has been held last year, only three concerts and two B-class sports events, this year did not get any use. Similarly, in the United States swimmer Michael Phelps made Olympic Shihui Huang miracle “Water Cube” project since the Olympics has never been used, on the contrary, in October last year, Beijing officials have decided to close renovated into an entertainment center.
Gotta say to those sites once used for Chinese tourists to visit, as the Chinese authorities have brilliant people to review and accept the “patriotic” education establishment, and ticket sales can be used to pay part of the huge maintenance costs. But Chinese officials admit that there is a growing loss of interest in the visit.
For the cost of the Expo, according to “China Economic Times” reports, including infrastructure, railway and airport building construction costs, the real cost could exceed 4,000 billion yuan, or 58 billion U.S. dollars. This does not include the cost of relocating 17,000 people.
Director-General of the World Expo Hong Hao (Hong Hao) said, “We never stopped learning the Beijing Olympics.”
But the well-known writer and racer Han Han Berger in November last year, when the Forum was invited to the Expo, the criticism that the rapid urbanization of Shanghai will “make life worse”, he quickly cut off the live broadcast, the last of his speech popular in the network.
As the World Expo will become the new patriotism education field and the strict media control, any criticisms seem rare, largely found only in anonymous posts on the Internet.
Shanghai in a popular forum site, Internet users questioned in the World’s Fair a huge cost is worthwhile. If users Cfxianggang said, “I just want to know why they put so many resources into the Expo. This will give this country any good?”
Another netizen named Yi Tao (Yi
Tao) of the netizens said: “All of these are superficial. Any other country like China will not put so many resources into the facade project. But even then, China will continue to be regarded as a developing country. “
Shanghai to learn from the Beijing Olympics, another trick is security. In the Shanghai subway, the hotel’s lobby had been erected on a lot of metal detectors. Been used in the Olympics for the first time a special device, in Shanghai, is also widely used to detect whether there are explosives in luggage and other prohibited items. Kites and balloons are prohibited in the vicinity of exposition. The Administration is also recruiting volunteers to monitor any possible trouble.
Visit in Taiwan, “National Armed Forces Museum” See Zhang Lingfu must document the book
Taipei Museum of Armed Forces, referred to as military history museums, was built in 1961, under the “Defense Ministry”, near “Office of the President.” Military history museums exhibits, with pictures, text based, only letters and kind donations famous military firearms. Military history museums to military history, divided into Huangpu Military Academy, the Eastern Campaign, the Northern Expedition, destruction of the Communists (five encirclement, Long, etc.), war, counter-insurgency (liberation war), several stages of the battle across the Taiwan Strait. The contents of the Chinese civil war, military history museums or used during the decades of cross-strait hostility language full of gunpowder, the ideology is far behind on the mainland, reminiscent of the mainland to the military called “Jiang Fei Army” age , and then listen to “enemy units,” heard the words. For example, the “counter-insurgency campaign and the Taiwan Strait,” galleries Description:
[By the military five times to suppress, the Chinese Communists were forced to flee Northern ...... After the war, the Chinese Communists openly armed rebellion, the insurgency war was underway. 38 years Republic of China (1949), counter-insurgency war situation reversed, and the Divine by the Chinese communists turning other, the government moved to Taiwan ...... in 47 years (1958) launched the Chinese Communists, "823" Battle of the Taiwan Strait, the joint response by the army, ambitions crushed invasion of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen and Matsu to defend recovery base. ]
To military history museums in the taxi on the Columbia listening to the Beijing Central People’s Radio broadcasts. He told me that Beijing CCTV broadcast, Taiwan people are eager to listen, he wants to hear. The people of Taiwan with the mainland early move in the upper did not expect the idea, still remain in the thirty or forty years ago.
eight-year war is a war the whole nation, and therefore exactly the same language on both sides. Japanese military history museums in order to expose the Jinan Massacre Graphic, Nanjing atrocities. May 1928, the Japanese army nearly ten thousand in Jinan massacre my people, for the Jinan Massacre. Military history museums detailing the Japanese military 22 major battles, such as the famous Battle of Shanghai, Taierzhuang victory, 10000 Ridge Victory, Battle of Changsha, etc..
Museum of the television, playing the national army air force chief Air Gao led them to participate in Wuhan in 1937, “814″ air, first shot down six Japanese aircraft, and I no casualties record; Sichuan army division commander Japanese star Ming-Zhang (Sichuan Xindu people ), Shandong thoen in 1938 to defend war, the rate of 2000 thousands of Japanese defenders resisted, fighting to the last man, died a heroic death.
mainland are most familiar with the military star, none other than Zhang Lingfu. Japanese star Zhang Lingfu military (1903-1947), the Xian people, tall and handsome, calligraphic works. 20-year-old admitted to the Peking University Department of History, one year after the Pen for the Sword, the fourth entry Whampoa Military Academy. Songhu 1937 campaign, Zhang Lingfu headed. In the battle with the Japanese, he put that gun, out of the trenches, led death squads charged at the enemy to death 800 people. Jiangxi Wanjialing 1938 campaign, the Japanese insurance entrenched with old Zhang Shan, no less than military Jiugong. Zhang Lingfu offered advice, cliff climbing the mountain from the Japanese surprise attack. He personally led a commando, rapidly won Zhang ancient mountains, for the military to wipe out the Japanese 106th Division set a great service or Renlv Zhang, fame. 1941 Battle of Jiangxi Province, on high, Zhang Lingfu Shuaidui sticking to reclaim their positions, wiped out the Japanese on the people, he was promoted to division commander. Zhang Lingfu repeated in the war fighting and victory, as the “Ever Victorious General.” His 74 military is famous nationwide “anti-Japanese Iron Army” is the military’s elite units.
After the war, 74 Army General Zhang Lingfu any longer. Unexpectedly, in Shandong Menglianggu 74 military campaign, was completely annihilated the PLA. Military history museums wrote: [Republic of China 36 years (1947) May, (Zhangling Fu) crew and 74 troops, military offensive against Communist forces Yimeng Mountain to lone-depth, follow-up, helpless, in the bloody three-day and night Menglianggu, Scots army at the expense do. Cai Renjie and Deputy Commander, 58 Division of Lu Xing, 57 division deputy commander Ming Chan, head of the group of senior generals such as Zhou Xiaobin calm the Gun Suicide, for the counter-insurgency campaign in one of the most heroic pages.
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Museum there is the swan song to his wife Zhang Lingfu books:
[More than ten million of the bandit to me jumps, fighting and even worse today, playing the best aid must, water, food are lacking. I Renjie decisive battle to the last, to pay the price for a bomb to drink formula, reported to the State and the leader of the people under the A and subordinates. No father to Beijing, pain pole, look good to the. Son bringing up hope. Yuling Wu's wife, carry on this part forever. ]
Zhang Lingfu Italy has never died, the father and son dying before the miss, a natural and impressive. Anti-Japanese People’s Liberation Army respect Zhangling Fu active, after his burial, erected a monument sign to call. Zhang Lingfu was Chen Yi, Su Yu East China Field Army forced suicide by shooting himself, can be brutal civil war to the Communists. Zhang Lingfu this fervent opponent, did not die of war, but died in the civil war is to be deplored.