The World Expo 2010 in Shanghai

was intended to show

the future urban world

to the people of China.

By 2006,

illiteracy among the young in China

had dropped to 3.58 percent.

In 2006

134 000 Chinese students

were studying outside China.

In 2008

Chinese researchers total 1.36 million,

ranking second in the word

By the end of 2007,

the basic old-age insurance scheme

had 201.37 million members.

China would not develop without the world

and the global prosperity will not be possible

without the prosperity of China.

These images are dedicated to the unknown persons

I met in the streets of Shanghai.

They shared with me their happiness and pride for the progress of China.

© Jan-Henrik Johansson Shanghai, October 20, 2010