The most intuitive understanding is that since the Shanghai World Expo is the first Expo with the theme of "city", it is obviously mainly to show the achievements of urban civilization, exchange urban construction experience, spread advanced urban development concepts, and explore new modes of human living, living and working. As residents in the city, these factors are obviously what everyone cares about most. What will Shanghai "present" to China and the world cities?
The author thinks that each city has its own characteristics in displaying the achievements of urban civilization. Shanghai, on the other hand, shows the characteristics of China, from economic environment to living conditions, from public services to traffic greening, from urban construction to education and health. After more than eight years of careful preparation, the Shanghai World Expo has at least concentrated the best "China elements" to present to the world, which is obviously the most representative.
The biggest impact of Shanghai World Expo on the future city should be the change of concept. Conceptual backwardness is the biggest backwardness. Almost half of people came to visit the Osaka World Expo in Japan, which shocked a generation of Japanese. Expo 2010 will also enable more China people to "see the world with their eyes open" again, open up people's wisdom and change their ideas. Even if they didn't go to the Expo venues to watch it in person, China people learned about the Expo through various information channels and received a baptism of ideas and concepts. For China, which is advancing urbanization and about to step into modernization, this kind of national education is obviously urgent and necessary. Just as compared with 185 1 2 bag of lake silk represented by China in the London World Expo, the steam engines, textile machinery, even the Light Speed Expo and the Internet of Things displayed in the Shanghai World Expo all embody the new concept of future cities in the new era.
Secondly, the Shanghai World Expo provides the latest blueprint for future urban construction. The whimsical and creative "experimental" buildings in this World Expo are obviously not just for the enjoyment of novelty and beauty, such as the fairy tale world in Russia, the rice pavilion in Italy, the wooden pavilion in Spain and so on. According to Wu Zhiqiang, the chief planner of Shanghai World Expo, this kind of experiment is by no means a castle in the air, but it will definitely have a far-reaching and positive impact on the future urban civil buildings in China.
Third, the Shanghai World Expo will greatly change the way of life and work of urban people in the future. Taking the city as the theme is a milestone in the history of the World Expo. Today, the world is at the forefront of new energy revolution, new industrial revolution and new lifestyle revolution, but China's urban development is experiencing bottlenecks and pains, such as extensive, environmental protection, sustainable and other aspects of confusion. The concepts of energy saving, environmental protection and low carbon brought by the Shanghai World Expo will inevitably affect the life of China's future cities and residents to a great extent. For example, there are 4.6 MW solar generators in the Expo site, which is the largest and most concentrated installed capacity in China. Energy-saving LED light sources are widely used in the whole park lighting equipment. Green revolution and low-carbon economy will become the main theme of future urban life.
Finally, the Shanghai World Expo will greatly affect the comprehensive coordination ability of future cities. Although this World Expo is a national system, the vitality of Shanghai and the vitality generated by the Expo are impressive. Shanghai's coordinated wisdom in fully mobilizing the whole country and the world has been widely recognized as "wonderful, orderly, friendly, healthy and scientific". Shanghai's valuable experience in remolding Shanghai's image, remolding the image of urban residents, mobilizing urban enthusiasm and strengthening urban management through the World Expo is very worthy of reference by big cities including Chongqing.