Shanghai had indeed gone all out, spending US $ 700 million (about NT $ 22.2 billion) on this major renovation. Apart from aiming to facilitate general tourism and transportation, the Bund renovations were explicitly made with an eye toward Expo 2010, which starts on May 1.
上海市不惜砸下 7 億美金（約合新台幣 222 億 3,500 萬元），大手筆整建外灘，除了考量觀光及交通效益，更重要的原因，當然是著眼今年 5 月 1 日即將隆重開幕的「上海世博」。