Taipei starts arranging exhibits at UBPA of Expo

Taipei has become the first city to start arranging its exhibits at the Urban Best Practices Area of the Expo site in the Puxi District of Shanghai. Taipei plans to showcase two ways of solving problems created by urbanization.

Taipei is the first city to receive a structurally completed pavilion from the world expo organizer. So now it can start working on the interior exhibits.

The Taipei pavilion is the only one among the 55 UBPA projects that has had both of its exhibition proposals accepted.

It will try to showcase the two themes through three dimensional theaters. Visitors can have a virtual tour of tomorrow's Taipei via short movies and light-and-sound shows. All the construction is scheduled to be completed next March.

Lee Yong-Ping, Taipei Deputy Mayor, said, "We will demonstrate how to build up a wireless network that lets people use the Internet to deal with day-to-day tasks. This helps to save public space and ease traffic pressure. In another area named Taipei Infinity. the city will demonstrate how it's aiming at a complete recycling of resources and zero burial of garbage."

The 110,000 square meter UBPA is located along the north side of the Huangpu River. Construction started seven months ago. It will eventually hold 40 pavilions and showcase 15 copies of actual projects when the expo begins.