Yang Jian/Shanghai Daily news

International participants in World Expo 2010 Shanghai have told the organizer with one voice that the current global financial storm has failed to cool Expo fever around the world.

During a two-day Expo participants meeting earlier this month, participants expressed their confidence in the world’s fair with 36 countries and two international organizations signing participation contracts, 11 cities signing contracts to take part in the Urban Best Practices Area, and another country confirming its participation.