Up in the air

It seems like everyone in Shanghai is doing something to make the 2010 World Expo a success, whether it be putting in longer hours at work or turning their houses into home-stays. Whatever the means they all serve the same end: to get the city looking as hospitable as possible, as China Daily's reporters find out.

Zhang Lili has never spent a Chinese New Year with her three-year-old son and this year will be no different for the China Eastern Airlines' stewardess as she again takes the holiday shifts as a member of the airline's elite Ling Yan (Soaring Bird) crew.

Zhang was nominated as one of 100 smiling ambassadors in Shanghai's service sector for the 2010 Expo because she usually spends the holidays up in the air caring for other people and their children, among other factors.