One Million Visitors in a Single Day at Expo 2010 Shanghai

Queuing for admissions

Today is the 170th day of Shanghai Expo 2010. As the Expo will come to an end in 2 weeks' time, many people attempt to grasp the last chance for the visits. Visitor counts dramatically increased in the recent days. There was a relatively low visitor volume in September because it was raining in most days. The favorable October weather in this month has pushed the number of visitors to the highest record. Over one million visitors flooded into the Expo park on the Double Ninth Festival holiday yesterday. To deal with the huge visitor flows, additional manpower and facilities had been arranged. To date, the accumulated visitors had surpassed 64 millions which is a new record of Expo visitor volume. Both the first week and last week of October are designated to be Peak Days on which tickets cost 200 yuan each. Holders of standard-day tickets (160 yuan each) for the ordinary days will be allowed to visit the Expo park in the last week if an additional charge of 40 yuan is paid. The standard-day tickets can be used in non-peak days or change to 2 evening tickets.