Shanghai Daily news

The Expo touring exhibition yesterday wrapped up its first stop at Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Center and will now head off to its next stop in Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu Province.

More than 130,000 people visited the exhibition during its one-month run, including 30,000 students, according to the organisers.

Several thousands visitors wrote in a message book for the event to comment, make suggestions and to wish the city good luck in hosting a successful event.

The exhibition, The Path to the World Expo, is one of the most important ways to promote the 2010 event to local people.

It seeks to arouse public recognition for the Expo, the first in a developing country, and to explain the purpose of exhibitions and review the history of past expositions.

The touring show will start its next stop in Nanjing on September 16 at the Nanjing Library. Wu Jianmin, president of the Bureau of International Expositions, will also deliver a lecture on the Expo.

The exhibition will also make stops in Beijing, Chongqing, Hangzhou and Guangzhou in 2007.