Expo 2010

Martyn Best

I make no excuses, and nor should you, urges our Far Eastern correspondent, Martyn Best, from the near reaches of Shanghai.

On behalf of the city of Liverpool, I've spent a week gaining a better understanding of the opportunity that Expo 2010 presents for the city. I can assure you that it represents a very real one, and one of such great scale, that it can, if grasped, offer a fundamental sea change in the long term performance of the city.

The scale of Shanghai and China is breathtaking - and seeing is believing.

Factories and industrial parks resemble small towns, universities become cities, and the ambition and reach of the country has no limitations.

What is reassuring is that it seems keenly recognized that this growth can be better achieved through close cooperation with its friends, and the warmth accorded to our delegation suggests that Liverpool as its twinned city is very firmly recognized as a friend of Shanghai.

In these times of economic crisis, a wave of confidence must surely build if we strengthen our Chinese ties.

Go east young man, and company and organisation - and be in Shanghai from 1^st May 2010, if not much earlier.

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