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Although the curtain has fallen on the Expo, for Sun Jiwei, chief of the Jiading district in Shanghai, it actually marks a new beginning for China's urban development with its legacies on sustainability.
Indonesia's pavilion seized bronze award for category of creative display-A at the world's exhibition event World Expo Shanghai China or WESC 2010 that was officially closed on October 31.
For Francesca Cusumano, a Rome-based communication expert, visiting the Shanghai Expo was a unique experience, and what impressed her most was the enthusiasm displayed by Chinese visitors during the 6-month event.
The curtain dropped on Expo 2010 on Sunday night with a heart-warming closing ceremony attended by a host of world leaders. 
Declaring a better city, a better life Design creativity Shanghai Declaration Closing ceremony Farewell, Shanghai Expo!
Shanghai has been doing subway security checks since May 1 when the Expo opened and all subway stations in the city are equipped with X-ray scanners. There are 6,000 people working in security on the 11 metro lines.
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao attended the Summit Forum on the sidelines of the Shanghai World Expo, which is set to be closed latter here Sunday.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said the Expo 2010 Shanghai China had been a splendid event and added a glorious chapter to the Expo history at the opening ceremony of the Shanghai World Expo Summit Forum Sunday.
The Shanghai 2010 Expo has been a roller coaster ride of culture, creativity, sharing and innovation - not only for those who visited the iconic Swiss Pavilion, and took its chairlift ride through a virtual Alps, but for all of the participants, visitors and media.
As the Shanghai Expo draws to a close, China is already considering a bid for another and is confident of hosting the global showpiece again in 2025, a senior official said on Thursday.
The USA Pavilion has achieved its goal of public diplomacy in China with the Expo serving as an unparalleled platform to communicate with the vast public of the country, the United States commissioner-general to the Expo said.
