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Only five hallmark venues will be stored inside the Expo Site, including the Expo Axis and the China Pavilion, according to Zhu Yonglei, deputy chief of the Expo Coordination Bureau.
The Shanghai World Expo greeted the first group of visitors arriving by sea Wednesday.
Police in Shanghai cracked more than 20,000 criminal cases in the first quarter of this year as a result of beefed-up security for the Expo, the city's public security bureau officials said on Tuesday.
Collecting Expo passport stamps from pavilions has become so popular that the passports are selling out soon after the gates open every morning at Expo Garden.
The large number of visitors to Expo 2010 Shanghai are bringing traffic pressure, long lines at many pavilions, and also more waste.
A massive thermometer at the Shanghai World Expo Park has been conveying the real-time weather information to visitors day and night.
The World Expo's 4th day, the first for which standard day tickets applied, attracted more than 140,000 visitors, beating the previous day's 131,700 but fewer than had been anticipated.
While tens of thousands of visitors have visited the China Pavilion, one of the most popular spots at the Shanghai Expo, a copycat version of the pavilion is under construction in a poverty-stricken county in Jiangsu province, causing a huge controversy.
History, art and great design are featured in the Hebei Pavilion, which has become an eye-catching stop for visitors entering China's Joint Provincial Pavilion in the Expo Garden.
The Finnish Post Tuesday issued stamps and a first-day cover featuring Finland's pavilion "Kirnu" in Shanghai World Expo.
