Vicente Loscertales (left), secretary general of the International Expositions Bureau, talks with delegates during the second participants' meeting of the World Expo Shanghai 2010 in the city's Four Points by Sheraton Youyou Hotel yesterday. The World Expo Shanghai pavilion will be open longer than any of the overseas pavilions, organizers told the two-day meeting attended by more than 400 officials and businessmen. - Shanghai Daily

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Shanghai's World Expo pavilion will be open half an hour earlier and half an hour later than the rest of the world's pavilions, organizers revealed at the second participants' meeting of the Expo in Shanghai yesterday, Shanghai Daily reported.

The participants decide how long they will open their pavilions, said Chen Xianjin, a deputy director of the Bureau of the Shanghai World Expo Coordination Committee. And so Shanghai has elected to open its pavilion for 12 hours a day during the week and 13 hours at weekends and on holidays. The pavilion will stop selling admission tickets two hours before the closing time each day.