在所有关于世博会的消息中,也许最令人震惊的是2000年汉诺威博览会主办者给上海的建议:“不要过高估计观众的热情。”这至少应该算是一个忠言,因为来源于汉诺威自己的惨痛经历是:预测参观人数从4000万直落到25O0万,而最后的实际人数则只有1800万。 事实上,发达国家举办的世博会人数在1970年大阪的6420万 Perhaps the most astonishing of all the news about the World Expo is the Shanghai Hanover Expo 2000 proposition: “Do not overestimate the enthusiasm of the audience.” At least it should be an allegory because of the harshness of Hanover’s own Experience is: the number of visitors is expected to drop from 40 million to 25.0 million, while the final actual number is only 18 million. In fact, the number of World Expo sponsors in developed countries was 64.2 million in Osaka in 1970