In ancient farming society, people often carried out trading activities in festivals, religious ceremonies and celebrations to celebrate the harvest, and later gradually developed into large-scale trade and exhibition gatherings with fixed places for the purpose of exchanging goods. This is the earliest form of the World Expo. In the 5th century A.D., Persia held its first exhibition beyond the market function. /kloc-in the 0/8th century, with the continuous emergence of new technologies and products, people gradually thought of holding an exhibition similar to the market, but only for exhibition and not for sale, with the purpose of publicizing and displaying new products and achievements. 179 1 year, the Czech Republic held such an exhibition in Prague for the first time. With the progress of science and technology and the development of social productive forces, the scale of the exhibition has gradually expanded, and the geographical scope of the exhibition has expanded from one place to the whole country, from home to abroad, until it has developed into a world exposition with the participation of many countries.
After World War II, people all over the world rebuilt their homes on the ruined ruins, and on the basis of resuming production and economic recovery, the first post-war World Expo was held in Brussels, Belgium on 1958, with the theme of "Science, Civilization and Humanity". In order to embody the theme of science, a spherical pavilion with primitive energy structure was built in the Brussels World Expo, which represents the symbol of human beings entering the new century of scientific and technological progress. Its unique and novel shape is still vivid, although nearly half a century has passed. The splendor and richness of the Expo almost eclipsed previous dock fairs.
1962, Seattle, USA held a small-scale professional exposition on "Humans in the Space Age". The Expo exhibited new advanced technologies, vending machines and monorail, which was a great success.
1964, in order to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the founding of new york, new york hosted the World Expo again, although the theme was elegant, "Towards peace through understanding". However, the strong commercial atmosphere of the Expo stopped the audience and lost the significance of commemorative activities. The World Expo was first held in Osaka, Japan in 1970. The Japanese call it the World Expo, which embodies "the progress and harmony of mankind" and shows the audience Japan's development and achievements in various aspects after the Tokyo Olympic Games. Thanks to this Expo, Japan will maintain a strong momentum in its economic development in the next 10 year.
1985, the World Expo was held again in Tsukuba, a new scientific and cultural city more than 50 kilometers away from Tokyo. The theme of the Expo is "life and environment, human home technology". A year later, Canada held an Expo with the theme of "transportation" to commemorate the 0/00th anniversary of Vancouver/KLOC.
1988 is the 200th anniversary of British settlement in Australia. In order to remember this day, Australia hosted the World Expo in Brisbane, the eastern gold coast city. The theme of this Expo is "Leisure Life in the Age of Science and Technology". It shows that in today's era of extremely developed science and technology, human beings are not listening and entertaining. All countries have made a big fuss about this theme, reflecting the richness of human life with sports, entertainment, tourism, leisure, cooking, gardening and so on.
1990, Osaka, Japan held the International Flower and Green Expo with the theme of "Man and Nature". The theme of the exhibition is world horticulture, as a commemorative activity to celebrate Osaka's "New Beginnings"100th anniversary. There are 82 countries participating in this exhibition, and 55 international organizations and Japanese provinces, cities and large enterprises have set up exhibition halls or booths respectively. It has achieved hundreds of large-scale world horticultural expositions in Asia and achieved great success.
1992 is the 500th anniversary of Columbus' discovery of America. To this end, the Spanish government held the World Expo in Seville, and named the theme of the Expo "The Age of Discovery". The World Expo covers an area of 4.78 million square meters, with more than 65,438+000 countries participating. The audience reached more than 60 million people. The latest World Expo is Daejeon World Expo 1993, which is the first World Expo held by a developing country in the world. The theme is "a new way to take off".
Preparing for the World Expo is a huge systematic project. As a major action of a national government, it not only becomes an international activity to commemorate a major historical event, but also displays and disseminates great achievements in economy, culture and science and technology. So the preparation time usually takes 5 to 6 years. The planned World Expositions before the end of this century are: Lisbon World Expo 1998. 1998 is the International Year of the Ocean approved by the United Nations, and the theme of the Expo is "Ocean-Wealth of the Future". The World Expo covers an area of 55 hectares, with 120 countries and regions participating. It is expected to receive 20 million visitors, which is a professional exposition.
1999 China applied for Kunming AI Professional World Horticultural Exposition. On May 1, China 1999 World Horticultural Exposition was grandly opened in Kunming, Yunnan. This is the first global horticultural activity held in China, and its theme is "Man and Nature, Towards 2 1 century". The World Expo shows the horticultural traditions and varieties of various countries and attracts thousands of tourists from all over the world every day. It lasted 184 days and ended at 1, 999, 1, 3 1.
In 2000, the first international exposition of 2 1 century was held in Hanover, Germany, making Hanover famous in the world.
The opening ceremony of the 2005 Japan International Expo ("Aichi Expo") was held in Aichi Prefecture, Japan on the afternoon of March 24th, 2005.
The Japanese Emperor and his wife, the Crown Prince, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and nearly 2,500 representatives from various countries attended the opening ceremony that afternoon.
"Aichi Expo" will be a large-scale Expo activity that will last for half a year from the 25th of this month. The theme of this World Expo is "Natural Wisdom". * * * A total of 12 1 countries and 4 international organizations participated in the Expo, and China was one of the participating countries. China Pavilion of Aichi World Expo is decorated with China Zodiac, Kowloon Wall and other landscapes with strong China characteristics, and its theme is "Nature, City, Harmony-Art of Life".
Approved by the State Council and confirmed by the Bureau of International Exhibitions, the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade formally applied to join the Bureau of International Exhibitions on May 3rd 1993, and was elected as a member of the Information Committee of the Bureau of International Exhibitions on February 3rd 1993.
When did the government of China participate in the World Expo for the first time as a country?
For the first time, the China government sent its own representative to participate in the World Expo as a country. It was the Philadelphia World Expo in 1876. At that time, the representative of China's industry and commerce was Gui Li. He is a wise, brave, resourceful and courageous China man, but he was overwhelmed by that era. Gui Li wrote a book called "A New Record of Traveling Around the Earth", which recorded the 1876 Philadelphia World Expo. Although he is the only China person in the China delegation, it is the first time that China people have officially set foot on the World Expo.