World Expo 2011 Shanghai Volunteers
World Expo
- » World Expo 2011 Travel Packages
- » World Expo 2011 Shanghai Tickets
- » World Expo Themes
- » 2012 World Expo Sponsors & Partners
- » List of World Expos
- » List of World Expositions
- » Shanghai World Expo China 2011
- » World Expo 2011 Participating Countries
- » World Expo Mascots
- » World Expo International Pavillions
World Expo Shanghai Volunteers more than 50,000 people have registered to serve as volunteers at the Shanghai World Expo 2011.
The Shanghai government introduced 72 sites for registration who registered above 20,000 and another 31,000 registered online. Out of these, 1,000 have registered through calls.
The major site at the Oriental Pearl TV Tower in Pudong focused singers and dancers as well as drew large crowds of people celebrating the start of the countdown. More than 500 volunteers have signed up there for that event.
Shanghai Party Chief Yu Zhensheng presided over the national countdown event in Tian'anmen Square in Beijing who said volunteering was "a key opportunity for young people to develop themselves and a platform to showcase local youth."
The first applicant for the Shanghai World Expo 2011 is Shanghai senior high school student who is of 17-years old.
Lu Ruiyi, who lives in Pudong besides Expo site, told that she felt lucky because being first in line and she would be 18 next year which is the minimum age for volunteers who wants to be an information consultant.
More than 70,000 volunteers will be appointed to work on the Shanghai Expo grounds and the other 100,000 for the 1,000 or so service centers that will be grouped up around the city during the event which is likely to attract 70 million visitors. Volunteers have to work for at least 14 continuous days during next year's event, starts from May 1 to October 30.
The oldest candidate at the Pearl Tower be 68-year-old Sun Xinyi. He is a retired math teacher who has been teaching English himself for more than a year so that he may get an interpreter job at the Expo.
He reads English textbooks as well as listens to foreign radio for four hours every day. "I have no problem talking in English now," he told.
Gu Jiamin, a 51-year -old who suffers from severe myopia is classified as visually disabled but appointed at the volunteer drive with a propel of certificates which includes his service in 2007 Special Olympics in Shanghai. "I am disabled myself so I know how to take care of the physically challenged," Gu said.
The organizers are recruiting physically challenged volunteers who are proficient in language skills and other capabilities.
Candidates who are willing to become volunteers can still sign by visiting any of 19 venues around the city and at 53 universities. They can also apply online at www.expo2010.cn, www.expovol.com, www.expo2010volunteer.cn, www.wmsh.gov.cn, and www.21campus.cn, or dial 962010, the Expo hotline.
The last date for receiving applications is December 31, and training will be completed in March.
Suzhou in Jiangsu Province introduced six travel routes in and around the garden city for Expo visitors who want to discover outside Shanghai. The routes are part of the 44 Expo theme tourist itineraries intended in 16 cities of the Yangtze River Delta region.
