China surpassed its target of 70 million visitors to the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, reaching the world record figure as the six-month exhibition enters its final week.
Sixty-four million people visited the 1970 Osaka World Expo in Japan, Chinese media reported.
"The news that total visitors surpassed 70 million is exciting, and it is also an encouragement and a positive response," the Expo organisers wrote on the website.
The number of visitors to the Expo in China's financial hub and richest city is more than 10 times the number who travelled to the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
The biennial exhibition, which opened on May 1, has the theme "Better City, Better Life" with about 190 countries and 50 international organisations participating.
The show includes five central theme pavilions plus hundreds of national and corporate exhibition sites. Most of the visitors are Chinese.
Visitors have to wait for several hours to get inside popular pavilions while a family from the western province of Sichuan reportedly queued for eight hours to get into Saudi Arabia's pavilion.
October 16 was the exhibition's biggest day so far, with 1.03 million visitors.
- BLOOMBERG
Shanghai Expo passes goal of 70 million visitors
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