Visitors expected to soar along with mercury

SHANGHAI - Attendance at Expo 2010 Shanghai will continue to rise in June as organizers gear up to combat extreme weather conditions when summer descends on the city.

At a press conference on Monday, bureau chief of the Shanghai World Expo Coordination, Hong Hao, said Expo organizers were preparing to receive an even larger number of visitors in June and were taking measures to tackle high temperatures, the rainy season and typhoons.

Since ticket sales opened in March 2009, some 40 million tickets have been snapped up as yet and more than 8 million people have entered through the Expo Garden gates.