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上海世博会共设立5个主题馆，即“城市人”、“城市”、“城市星球”、“足迹”和“梦想” ，旨在展示世博会的总主题“城市，让生活更美好”。足迹馆展示了世界城市从起源走向现代文明的历程中，人与城市与环境之间互动发展的历史足迹，主要包含了“城市起源”、“城市发展”、“城市智慧”三个展厅。  今天我们一起来看看这个主题馆的亮点吧！ 

Now it's time for our regular feature On the Road.

The World Exposition provides each country an opportunity to display the best of their culture and unique attractions.

Today, as we continue our walk in the Expo Garden in Shanghai, we'll tour a themed pavilion and several national pavilions and learn about their most important national treasures on display at this World Expo which is underway in Shanghai. Liu Yan has more.

2010 Shanghai World Expo has five theme pavilions, namely, Urbanian, City Being, Urban Planet, Footprint and Future.

The Pavilion of Footprint is located in Zone D and includes three exhibition halls-"City's Origin," "Growing City" and "Urban Wisdom." It traces the birth and growth of cities, their philosophies and the urban wisdom centering on innovation and harmony.

The Hall of City's Origin shows what cities looked like in the early agrarian era. Visitors may have a chance to understand the reasons behind the formation of cities including those along the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers, ancient worship systems, and patron saints of ancient cities, among others.

"Growing City" shows full-blown cities, including Florence, Amsterdam, Byzantium and Istanbul. Visitors may have a chance to see ancient streets in China's Song Dynasty and Japan's Edo Period（江户时代）, and know more about urban development achievements in Tibet, and about the Forbidden City in Beijing.

The Urban Wisdom Hall deals with the Industrial Revolution era. Industrialization is depicted as a double-edged sword that changes the life in cities. New York and London are cited as two examples of innovative wisdom. The exhibition also includes the Chinese Grand Canal and the urban renewal efforts in Shanghai.

One of the most attractive of these halls is the exhibition of bronze ware which depicts the evolution of cities in ancient China.

Qiu Yeming, a staff member in the pavilion, says the pavilion was inspired by the 300 exhibits from participating countries of the Expo.

"One of the two major relics here are a bronze pot buried in the famous Tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng 2,500 years ago in central China's Hubei Province. Functioning like today's frig, the ice in the pot would not melt. It was used by ancient Chinese to store wine and keep fresh. This is an innovation displaying city wisdom."

The official says another relic embodies the early low carbon concept and technology. It is a bronze lamp which takes up its own smoke with a pipe, and absorbs the smoke with water stored in it.

One of the smallest national pavilions at this expo, the Luxemburg Pavilion, covers 3,000 square meters, with the recurring theme "small is beautiful."

Luxembourg's national treasure, the "Golden Lady," is placed at the top of a 3-metre-tall steel column at the entrance of the Luxembourg Pavilion.

The "Golden Lady" is a statue and a war memorial dedicated to the thousands from Luxembourg who volunteered for service in the armed forces during World War I.

Created by renowned Luxembourg artist Claus Cito in 1923, the "Golden Lady" is normally situated in Constitution Square in central Luxembourg City.

The pavilion looks like a medieval fortress, and is surrounded by a forest, which organizers say, amazingly matches Lu Sen Bao, the country's name in Chinese.

Robert Goebbels, chief representative of the pavilion, says the statue symbolizes peace and friendship.

The Denmark Pavilion is called "Welfairytales"-a blend of the words "welfare" and "fairy tales". It showcases a fairy tale world with the Little Mermaid, the country's symbol, set to make her first visit to Shanghai. It is arranged like a fairy tale in three chapters: the story of Danish cities, the story of the Danish people and the story of Danish technology and solutions for future urban living.

The pavilion features the "Little Mermaid" statue from Copenhagen, capital of this northern European country. It is the first time for the statue, a Danish national icon and major tourist attraction, to leave her hometown.

Built in 1913 to honor the famous fairytale character created by Hans Christian Anderson, the Little Mermaid has been sitting on the edge of Copenhagen's harbor since 1913. The mermaid statue made her Chinese debut at a man-made lake resembling the sights of Copenhagen harbor where the statue resides.

Christopher Bo Bramsen is chief representative of Demark Pavilion.

Combining elements of past and future, the Czech Pavilion features sustainable city planning by adopting new century city planning to historical towns. The fusion of historical heritage and modern building makes the pavilion unique and it provides visitors with a pleasant journey.

Visitors can also get active and interact with some of the exhibits in the main hall.

The Charles Bridge is a famous historical bridge that crosses the Vltava River in Prague, the Czech Republic. Travelers to the bridge touch the carvings on the bridge which is said to bring good luck. For the first time, two of the carvings were removed and transported into Shanghai for display in the pavilion for visitors to touch.

Gu Tianmin is a staff member in the Czech Pavilion.

"This board here with the carvings from the bridge is called ‘touching good luck'. The Czech people touch the carvings with their left hand which is believed to be more reverent for being closer to the heart."

Legend has it that the god Tane separated his parents, the Sky and the Earth, to create the world in which we live. This Maori creation story is brought to this Expo by the New Zealand Pavilion under the theme "Cities of Nature: Living Between Land and Sky".

Visitors can touch a 1.8 ton jade boulder that stands for the heart of New Zealand. The jade symbolizes the convergence of two jade cultures, as the Chinese and indigenous Maori of New Zealand share a common reverence for jade.

Xian Xin, a staff member at the New Zealand Pavilion, explains that Pounamu, the jade, was discovered by the Maoris and was given to the New Zealand government as a gift.

"A symbol of maternity, this is pure jade, unpolished since it was pulled up from a river by the Maoris. It has toured many countries around the world and was touched by 20 million people. It was displayed at the last World Expo held in Aichi, Japan, in 2005."

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