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10,000 Shanghai families to make way for World Expo China's largest city will resettle 10,000 families this year from their old homes in the proposed venue for the 2010 World Expo to new apartments in other parts of the city. The first 100 families moved out of the Pudong New District Sunday morning to new homes in a boomtown on Shanghai's outskirts. "It's a pity to leave my old home," said Xu Jinrong, a former Pudong resident, in an interview with Xinhua. "But we look forward to moving into bigger apartments as well." Xu lived in a big family with 11 members, including his parentsand three brothers. Their old home, nearly 100 years old, was only70 square meters in floor space. Now at last, the four brothers will have a two-bedroom apartment each, he said. Shanghai will build 5.28 square kilometers of facilities and infrastructure for the 2010 Expo, nearly 4 square kilometers of which will be located in the Pudong New District. According to the organizing committee of the 2010 Expo, all civil construction is to start by 2007, which means the city has to resettle 300 organizations and 17,000 families in the coming two years. The city has built 2 million square meters of residential apartments to resettle these families. "The resettlement project aims to improve the qualify of the Shanghai residents' life," saidVice Mayor Zhou Yupeng. The World Expo, held every five years, will be held in Shanghai from May 1 to Oct. 31 in 2010 with a theme of "better city, betterlife." |
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