In 2007 the Shanghai World Expo Coordination Bureau announced an open competition to design the pavilion. From 344 entries, it ended up choosing the submission by He Jingtang, dean of the architecture school at South China University of Technology in Guangdong Province.
2007 年，上海世博局向全球公開徵選中國館的設計方案，最後雀屏中選的廣東華南理工大學建築學院長何鏡堂，是從 344 件競圖中脫穎而出。