Quality should be over quantity

When the visitor numbers to the Shanghai Expo hit 70 million on Sunday morning, there were cheers and applause from officials. Yes, it is indeed a great success. However, the celebration was somewhat subdued. That was more or less the right mood.

There was much anxiety months ago about whether the Expo was going to achieve its target estimate of 70 million visitors during the six months, given the 200,000-300,000 patrons a day at that time.

So measures were introduced to attract more visitors., an excessive number of visitors in fact, more than 1 million on Oct 16. It has become a serious concern.