The Shanghai local authority has attached importance to the protection of historic buildings and folk remains for long, and therefore it is quite sure that those historic buildings located in the Expo Park will be well reserved by all means, told Jiao Yang, Spokeswoman of Shanghai Municipal Government at a regular press conference yesterday.

“There is no need to worry about the survival of historic buildings in the construction of Expo Park”, she added.

Officers proposed a most strict protection system for those cultural legacies as early as 2003 on a city planning work conference, Jiao said.

Shanghai was appraised as the national famous historical and cultural city by the Sate Council in 1986. Since then Shanghai has successively confirmed 2,138 outstanding historic architectures, totaling about 4 million square meters in 632 sites, 61 of which are cultural relics. 

Besides, Shanghai are now preparing extending the protection range and strengthening the measures as well.