Latvia's President Valdis Zatlers said the Shanghai Expo has surpassed all his expectations.
It mixed history with a modern world perfectly, conjoined the present and the future and built a bridge between the Oriental and the Occident, he said.
Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet said the Shanghai Expo had achieved many successes, which brought benefit to not only China but also the whole world.
Latvian Education and Science Minister Tatjana Koke lauded China's organization work, saying it was incredible that the Shanghai Expo could receive as many as one million visitors a day.
For Lin Xuewen, secretary-general of United Chinese Associations of Eastern U.S., "incredible" is the most often used word in describing his experience at the Shanghai World Expo.
"It was incredible to see the video played in the multimedia exhibition of the China Pavilion about China's vast migration from rural to urban areas over the past 30 years. I felt so overwhelmed by the incredible changes as if I was riding a time machine. Truly amazing," recalled Lin.
"Some U.S. friends who visited the Shanghai Expo told me that they realized that China not only has good food or great Kung-fu, but rich cultural heritage and modern technology," said Lin.
DIVERSIFIED CULTURE GATHERS IN SHANGHAI EXPO
A Chinese saying goes, "a single flower does not make a spring." In the modern world, not a single culture can survive on its own. The Shanghai World Expo provides a stage for a rich assortment of cultures in the world to manifest their diversity.
In the Expo park, all countries, east or west, poor or rich, can exchange, learn from each other and appreciate each other on an equal footing.
