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 | | Shanghai Mayor Chen Liangyu (left), Chinese Ambassador to France Wu Jianmin (centre) and Vice-Secretary-General of the State Council Wei Shaoshi show signs of victory in Monte Carlo Tuesday after the Bureau of International Exhibition's 132nd general assembly announced Shanghai won the bid for 2010 World Expo.Shanghai beat four other cities and won 54 votes out of 88 member countries in the final round. The other four competing countries lost out in the order of Poland, Mexico, Russia, and finally South Korea -- which lost by 20 votes to China [xinhua] |
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