The World Expo, referred to as the World Expo, is an international exposition, and the World View Exhibition (referred to as the World WM) is an international exposition with great influence and a long history organized or entrusted by the host government. It has a history of more than one hundred years. At first, it mainly displayed fine arts and traditional handicrafts. Later, it gradually became an exhibition of science and technology and industrial technology, and became a rare place to train industrial talents and enlighten ordinary citizens.

The venue of the World Expo is not only to display technology and commodities, but also to be equipped with colorful performances, charming and spectacular scenery and detailed and correct explanations. It is set as a space full of festive atmosphere that cannot be experienced in daily life, and it has become an ideal place for ordinary citizens to entertain and consume.

[Edit this paragraph] The history and origin of the World Expo

The origin of the World Expo

In ancient farming society, people often carried out trading activities in festivals, religious ceremonies and celebrations to celebrate the harvest, and later gradually developed into large-scale trade and exhibition gatherings with fixed places for the purpose of exchanging goods. This is the earliest form of the World Expo.

In the 5th century A.D., Persia held its first exhibition beyond the market function.

/kloc-in the 0/8th century, with the continuous emergence of new technologies and products, people gradually thought of holding an exhibition similar to the market, but only for exhibition and not for sale, with the purpose of publicizing and displaying new products and achievements.

179 1 year, the Czech Republic held such an exhibition in Prague for the first time. With the progress of science and technology and the development of social productive forces, the scale of the exhibition has gradually expanded, and the geographical scope of the exhibition has expanded from one place to the whole country, from home to abroad, until it has developed into a world exposition with the participation of many countries.

The history of the World Expo

185 1 year, the world's first world exposition-great exhibition of the works of industry of all nations was held in Hyde Park, London, England. The exhibition lasts from May 185 1 to October 1, and the main contents are world culture and industrial technology.

1867 The Paris World Expo has already taken shape as a modern world Expo.

After World War II, people all over the world rebuilt their homes on the ruined ruins, and on the basis of resuming production and economic recovery, the first post-war World Expo was held in Brussels, Belgium on 1958, with the theme of "Science, Civilization and Humanity". In order to embody the theme of science, the Brussels World Expo has built a spherical exhibition hall with atomic energy structure, which represents the symbol of mankind entering the new century of scientific and technological progress. Its unique and novel shape, although nearly half a century later, is still vivid. The splendor and richness of the World Expo almost eclipsed previous World Expos.

1962, Seattle, USA held a small-scale professional exposition on "Humans in the Space Age". The Expo exhibited brand-new advanced technology, vending machines and monorail, which was a great success.

1964, in order to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the founding of new york, another World Expo was held in new york, although the theme was elegant "Towards peace through understanding". However, the strong commercial atmosphere of the Expo stopped the audience and lost the significance of commemorative activities. The World Expo was first held in Osaka, Japan in 1970. The Japanese call it the World Expo, which embodies "the progress and harmony of mankind" and shows the audience Japan's development and achievements in various aspects after the Tokyo Olympic Games. Thanks to this Expo, Japan will maintain a strong momentum in its economic development in the next 10 year.

1985, the World Expo was held again in Tsukuba, a new scientific and cultural city more than 50 kilometers away from Tokyo. The theme of the Expo is "life and environment, human home technology". A year later, Canada held an Expo with the theme of "transportation" to commemorate the 0/00th anniversary of Vancouver/KLOC.

1988 is the 200th anniversary of British settlement in Australia. In order to remember this day, Australia hosted the World Expo in Brisbane, the eastern gold coast city. The theme of this Expo is "Leisure Life in the Age of Science and Technology". It shows that in today's era of extremely developed science and technology, human beings are not listening and entertaining. All countries have made a big fuss about this theme, reflecting the richness of human life with sports, entertainment, tourism, leisure, cooking, gardening and so on.

1990, Osaka, Japan held the International Flower and Green Expo with the theme of "Man and Nature". The theme of the exhibition is world horticulture, as a commemorative activity to celebrate Osaka's "New Beginnings"100th anniversary. There are 82 countries participating in this exhibition, and 55 international organizations and Japanese provinces, cities and large enterprises have set up exhibition halls or booths respectively. It has achieved hundreds of large-scale world horticultural expositions in Asia and achieved great success.

1992 is the 500th anniversary of Columbus' discovery of America. For this reason, the Spanish government held the World Expo in Seville, and named the theme of previous World Expo logos as "Discovery Age". The World Expo covers an area of 4.78 million square meters, with more than 65,438+000 countries participating. The audience reached more than 60 million people. China Pavilion exhibited four great inventions and Long March rockets, and was rated as a "five-star pavilion".

The Daejeon World Expo in Korea, 1993, is the first World Expo held by a developing country in the world (recognized category). The theme is "a new way to take off". The China Pavilion displays space science and technology, the Three Gorges Project and so on. It received 3.5 million visitors, ranking the highest among all pavilions, and was rated as one of the five best pavilions.

1998 World Expo Lisbon Portugal. 1998 is the International Year of the Ocean approved by the United Nations, and the theme of the Expo is "Ocean-Wealth of the Future".

The theme of the 2000 World Expo in Hanover, Germany is "Human, Nature, Science and Technology", with a total of 172 participating countries and organizations, which is the largest number of participating countries, regions and organizations in previous world expositions.

In 2005, Aichi Expo with the theme of "Natural Wisdom" was the latest registered Expo, and China Pavilion received 5.7 million visitors, making it the most popular pavilion.

In the 2008 Zaragoza World Expo in Spain, the water tower is the landmark building of the 2008 Zaragoza World Expo and the tallest building in Zaragoza. The water tower is one of the three major theme pavilions of the World Expo Park, where the theme of "water, the source of life" is exhibited, so it is also called the water tower pavilion.