Czech EXPO pavilion sold to Chinese farm

The Czech Republic sold its pavilion at the EXPO 2010 in Shanghai to the Farm of Czechoslovak-Chinese Friendship, for 33 million crowns, or 1.8 million US dollars, on Saturday. The farm, a huge firm with 180,000 employees situated in the Beijing region, will re-assemble the pavilion and use it for the presentation of the Czech Republic in the future, a manager of the Czech pavilion said. The Farm of Czechoslovak-Chinese Friendship was built in the 1950s with the assistance of communist Czechoslovakia.

Author: Jan Richter