Shanghai Daily news

An editor and a reporter with China's leading Japanese magazine "People's China," visited the Bureau of the Shanghai World Expo Coordination yesterday and interviewed Huang Yaocheng, deputy director of the bureau.

Huang introduced the general information about the World Expo 2010, and said he hoped that Shanghai could attract more Japanese friends to the Expo to create a bridge between the two countries.

Huang said the relocation work, involving 18,000 families and 272 companies, would be completed by the end of this year, and the organisers will hand the land over to the participants from November.

Shanghai has also been improving the traffic system in preparation for the Expo, Huang said.

Huang introduced that the "Shanghai Weeks" in Japan would kick off displaying hundreds of pictures of Shanghai and World Expo posters along a key railway line in Japan on March 16.

The events in "Shanghai Weeks" also include tourism promotion, playing local movies in Japan and expo-related business talks between the two countries.

The magazine "People's China" is published monthly both in China and Japan.