Guangdong Officials Bid to Host the 2020 World Expo

Guangzhou.

From NetEase:

Guangdong officials say they have already formally bid to host the 2020 World Expo

Summary: On the 27th, the head of the Guangdong province branch of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade and the deputy head of the provincial Expo working group clearly expressed that Guangdong is currently in preparations to bid for the World Expo, and has already applied through official channels to host the 2020 World Expo.

Guangzhou people.

Comments from NetEase:

网易火星网友:

Might as well apply to just host it forever! Let every city enjoy the World Expo to their heart’s content! World Expo for everyone!

网易山东东营网友:

Wait until 2012 has passed before applying!

网易广东广州网友:

Yet another money-wasting project. The moment [the bid] succeeds, Guangzhou will once again become a construction site. Please stop it, the Asian Games is enough.

网易广东深圳福田网友:

Bid — Construction Projects — Embezzlement — Emigration.
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Ruin the transportation facilities.

网易上海嘉定网友:

Any expo is fine, as long as it isn’t held at Shanghai. One World Expo is painful enough~~

网易广东广州越秀网友:

Spare us, please move the provincial capital out of Guangzhou, I only need a small rural Guangzhou, not an international metropolis Guangzhou.

网易上海网友:

Poor Guangdong people, the Shandong people send their condolences.

网易上海松江网友:

Weak, holding the World Expo can improve Guangdong’s urban planning, transportation systems, and raise Guangdong’s world economic position. The drawback is that housing prices will go up. Then, Guangdong can replace Shanghai as the destination for outsiders looking to make a living. Best would be the West [part of China] holding it so then people will flow there. It would develop the West.

网易广东东莞网友:

One money-burning resident-hassling Asian Games is already enough for the people [in Guangzhou], and they want to bid for the World Expo??!! Some government officials are probably crazy about making money…

网易火星网友:

Shanghai is already SB! Why would Guangzhou also want to become SB?

网易上海网友:

If we bid for too many [events], it becomes meaningless. When everyone becomes used to them, then no one will pay attention to them. Besides, the World Expo is not like the Asian Games which is two weeks of time, it is half a year, and it requires one’s own cultural heritage as support, so without strength and lung power, Guangdong can’t do it!

网易北京网友:

You pigs who pat their butts and make decisions, such a big matter and you don’t consider what the ordinary common people living in the city think?! Doing this is great for you guys, having government cars to ride in and police cars to clear the road so you’re not afraid of traffic, profits to be made, women to do…[I am] truly speechless.

网易广东东莞网友:

Have they considered just what kind of place Guangdong is before doing the World Expo? Most people on the streets not having any morals or cultivation, especially the locals of Humen, viciously cursing outsiders/foreigners. The entire place is garbage, and they dare say they want to hold the World Expo? Don’t lose face for Chinese people.

网易广东网友:

As a citizen with a Guangdong hukou, I oppose.

Guangzhou.

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  1. Dont Believe It.

  2. When are they going to stop eating and torturing dogs and cats in Guangdong?
    Seriously GD is one of the worst places in China esp. the area od dongguang in GD.
    Prostitution, Chinks with guns. You name it, They claim it!

  3. Hope springs eternal.

    On another note, I ding the Chinese comments.

  4. The last good world expo was Sevilla in 92. Chinese politics can organise world expo every year if they want, who care ? nobody will go. Why ? because no money for the next 10 years.

  5. What a great idea – because the Shanghai Expo is going so well…. (that was sacrastic!). Seriously though – why do they keep doing these things? They are such a waste of money and time… Also – Fauna – getting some pretty lame articles as of late…

  6. Supreme arrogance. But then what do you expect from the same people who brought you the “5000 Years Of Culture You should Listen To Us/We’re Still A Developing Nation We Can’t Handle That Kind Of Responsibility” paradox.

  7. Please let the people of guangzhou have some peace…One Asian games is making everyone nuts. The incompetent officials cannot even manage a drain from being blocked…what else can they do ?? If the world wants to punish the people of Guangzhou then by all means hold more events in Guangzhou else spare them please until th incompetent officials have all been replaced / retired.

  8. hosting the world expo isn’t going to bring recognition or perception of class to China. it will marginalize the poor even greater.

  9. I’ve lived in Guangzhou for quite some time, and my perception is that Guangdong is a marginalized area prized for its economic output around the Pearl River Delta area, however its people, its customs, even its officials are seen more as a nuisance by eastern china and Beijing in general.

    The province is pushed to prosperity through special economic policies in the region, the local people themselves are not very hard working and lack the kind of work ethics that you’d find in Shanghai. People are very laid back, with a very rural attitude.

    The Asian Games is already more than Guangzhou can handle; the asian games organizing committee is 99% amateurs, with people from various agencies and bureaus, all of them freeloaders and slackers. The 1% that want to do a good job is restrained by a lack of policy and an unclear chain of command, in short, it is chaos.

    If Guangdong want to host the Expo, it needs to shape up and maybe wait another 50 years.

  10. Shanghai Expo US$45 billion and counting.. a complete waste of money… US$45 billion spent on the world’s poorest, malaria research….

    Shanghai already was the second most famous city in China, Expo doesnt change that.

    GZ? WTF!

  11. Hey Fauna now i’m pretty upset. Dont know why you always Moderate my messages and then delete them. When i dont say shit.

  12. Don’t make the mistake using the Shanghai Expo as comparison! Most of you have some good things to say, but in China the general rule of thumb is:

    It’s NOT how you do something, but they fact that you do it all!

  13. Some people and their narrow-minded thinking.

    China, while its government is tough as nails, can be wildly unregulated in comparison to other countries. While Chinese hold strict and sometimes unforgiving traditional values and are obsessed with “saving face,” it holds titles such as “dominator of the pornography imports”. Anyone from the outside (as well as inside, I bet!) looking at China can see these blatant paradoxes.

    So any criminal would find China a great place to sell drugs and prostitute, regardless of race! You think everyone in Africa is running around selling drugs and sex? C’mon thaaat’s just retarded (on top of it being racist, which I would look beyond b/c we’re all kind of guilty of our racial prejudices).

    Anyhoo, GD. Yes. Fuck the motherfucking Expo. It’s a hot, sweaty, waste of time. And GD 人 would probably appreciate you NOT fucking up their homes.

    • Lols, I have seen the same Bronze horse and globe statue in at least a dozen cities. They all say “#1 Tourist City in China”. Every time it is in some hick town.

  14. LOL despite the fact I was born in GZ, I would seriously never hold a expo there. Even holding the Asian games is somewhat of a farce.
    The government officials/provincial officers have no culture/planning/imagination. The TV tower in GZ maybe the tallest, but if you look at its placement and environmental aesthetics it is a absolute disaster and a waste of money.

    The urban design of GZ is a joke.

  15. It has been a while since I went to GD but isn’t the place known for muggers, thieves, and triads?

  16. Well they’re certainly corrupt enough to get it. The organizing committees for this and the Olympics are just a bunch of guys getting paid off by various countries.

  17. WHat a shithole city! An expo there would prove to embarrass China big time. The people AND the city smell worse than my ass on it’s best day.

  18. ITT haters gonna hate.

    But seriously. GD is shit anyway. If you want arrogance, you have to see GD people.
    All the shit nowadays with that ‘baaawww beijing is gonna take our culture and cantonese language’-shit, only because of two TV-stations are broadcasting in mandarin, just shows how self-centered and retarded lots of GD people are.

    But aside of the idiocy of GD, I would have found it pretty good, if the Expo was hosted in a minor chinese city and not in shanghai, so that it would fit the traditions of the world expo being hosted in small shitstains like sevilla, hannover etc…

  19. It wouldn’t be meaningful. Shanghai is different because it has an international culture and history. Chinese cities should organize themselves and become more educated about their deep history and specific culture before trying to be representatives to the rest of the world, especially the secondary city. No one knows how many Western and Japanese traditions or self-promotions arise from Canton and the secondary cities. Our cultural products are literally and emotionally enriching other countries and cultures which seek to put us in a disdained position. Don’t leave the gate without overpreparation. Put those Phds to work.

  20. wo that last photograph is wonderfull
    the colours and composition look almost staged,
    like a re-make of the last supper or something

  21. How about spending that money on the school system or something productive. The world doesn’t care about the world fair anyways. What could Guang Dong do with 50 billion dollars? I say, invest it in social services or education. Plan for the future, not for a party.

  22. that is enough。the will be sb like SH EXPO

  23. Arrrgh mehearty methinks ye may be right. But where be ye hearty parrot upon ye shoulder o’land lubber?

    …gay.

  24. Don’t tread on me, Alain.

  25. If you extend your thought, America belong to Indians who were there even before French and/or Mexicans. And are Mexicans not Spanish? Pfiuu, so much thinking…
    What’s your goal anyway here? Spit on the Americans living in China? Like everyone else there are some good and bad guys among foreigners in China (good defining in that case people here for a purpose other than “cheap country, cheap women”).
    Anyway, you made go through these 5 minutes where I had nothing to do.
    Thanks

  26. The First Navy Jack ?

  27. China shouldn’t talk about stealing land. China is always eye-ing other countries to swallow up.

  28. ^
    From pure observation, its always the smaller countries that say this. Why is that?

  29. That flag is from the American Revolution you twat.

    Wrong war, wrong century, wrong argument, just so wrong

  30. I wouldn’t agree. I’m living in Guangzhou, and I heard from Chinese in Guangzhou themselves that they don’t like black people.
    Don’t shoot the messenger, I’m just relaying what I heard.

  31. lol it’s called bei FANG ren…

    And Shanghai isn’t even a northern city. If you are racist, at least know who your targets are…

  32. Chinese in West China are also very tolerant good people. It’s really only the Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin folk that think they are better than anyone else. I remember taking a class in Washington DC with a group of Shangai/Beijing students. They kept making fun of the barbarian Sichuan people and even said they deserved the Earth Quake. They treat all of the rest of China like second class citizens.

    As for me, I am proud to live in Sichuan were people are actually polite to each other.

  33. I wonder which song China will plagiarize to use as their theme song if they host the Expo at Guangdong?

  34. Im really glad that Guangzhou changed the visa plan from 3 month to three weeks, too many black people in guangzhou fucking dealing drugs and fucking prostitutes. Those niggaz think Guangzhou is like Detroit where they can do what ever the fuck they want. Guangzhou government really need to limit the african population to like 500

  35. Africans come from Detroit, okay noted. lol ;P

  36. “Taegukgi” – pop remix by Super Junior and Big Bang, feat. rap solo by Ludacris

  37. In several generations, All of China’s elite athletes will come from GZ/GD.

  38. LOL :-) couldn’t have defined Guanzhou with better words!
    As for the Expo no one really gives a toss in the rest of the world… been back in the UK for a week now and no one knows or even cares about the Shanghai Expo… I bet if they do it in Guanzhou in 2020 the rest of the world will dye of envy :-)

  39. “From pure observation, its always the smaller countries that say this. Why is that?”

    From pure observation it’s always the rape victim that complains about being raped, not the rapist,why is that? Cuz it sucks to be raped dude.

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