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On August 5, Bureau of Shanghai World Expo Coordination signed CNPC as its global partner for World Expo 2010 Shanghai in Beijing, making CNPC the 12thglobal partner for the event.
Our role as Shanghai World Expo's globalpartner after becoming a global partner for the Beijing Olympic Games reflects another significant action we taking to fulfill our social responsibilities. Wewill endeavor to meet the demands of the Expo for sufficient and qualityhydrocarbon products and services by improving our sales network, pipelines and logistics facilities.
The World Expo, known as "the Olympic Games for theeconomy, science and technology", is held by the government of a country withthe participation of many other countries and international organizations. Up tonow, the World Expo has been held in 24 cities of 13 countries including China.China first participated in the World Expo in 1982, and was recognized as the46th member state by BIE in 1993. China has hosted the 1999 InternationalHorticulture Exposition in Kunming. The Shanghai World Expo will be held from May 1 to October 31 in 2010, with a theme of "Better City, BetterLife".
Shanghai World Expo has attracted many top enterprises from homeand abroad. Now it has 12 global partners, 7 senior sponsors and 5 projectsponsors. CNPC is China's largest oil and gas producer and supplier. In 2007, weregistered sales revenues of over RMB one trillion, total profit of RMB 192billion and taxation payments of RMB 198.5 billion. CNPC is ranked the 25th inFortune Global 500 and the 7th among globaltop 50 oil companies.