Gordon Campbell, premier of Canada's westmost province British Columbia, said: "What it really does is it shows what we can do when we think about living cities and creating places people want to live."
"The expo showed what the future can look like, and I think it is going to be very powerful for China and it is certainly powerful for the rest of the world as well. It was a huge success and I hope everyone in Shanghai and China feels like it was a huge success as well," Campbell said.
Jose Freches, commissioner general of the France Pavilion, said: "Better City, Better life is an actual theme, how to organize cities of tomorrow to allow people to have better lives in big cities."
"It's a concrete theme for all the planet and there will be a Shanghai declaration, a charter to be adopted by all countries who participated in the exhibition of Shanghai," he said.
"I'm sure Shanghai World Expo has made a great contribution to this idea," he said.
The Shanghai World Expo is closing. But its wonderful melody still resonates all over the global village. A post-expo era is emerging in style.
