国内英语新闻:World media laud organization of Shanghai Expo

Austrian media released many stories before and after the opening ceremony of the Shanghai Expo on Saturday.

Austria's largest daily Neue Kronen Zeitung said Saturday that the Shanghai Expo was the most expensive event which cost twice as much as the Beijing Olympic Games.

"Shanghai, the window of China, will also become a center of the world," the paper said.

"Whoever does not show here would disappear from the eyesight of China in 50 years," the paper quoted deputy commissioner of Austria's delegation Brigitt Murr as saying.

Finnish Kirsi Pitkanen waves to tourists in a water ball outside the Finland Pavilion in the World Expo in Shanghai, east China, May 3, 2010. Pitkanen manipulates the water ball to welcome tourists here who visit the pavilion.

For those who want and could do business in China, no one does not hold good prospects of this future economic superpower, it added.

The article quoted current popular remarks in China as saying that "there is no topic that the Beijingers cannot talk about, no food that the Cantonese dare not eat, and nothing that the Shanghai people cannot accomplish."