Chinese city to purchase Czech Expo pavilion

The Chinese city of Huzhou has expressed interest in purchasing the Czech pavilion at the World Expo in Shanghai, the Czech Press Agency has reported. The prefecture-level city of roughly 2.5 million apparently wants to cover all costs to relocate the building to a lakeside municipal zone, where it would stand at the centre of a tourist area. No price has been confirmed. The Czech pavilion has been among the more popular sites at the Shanghai expo, with 3.7 million people having visited it so far, or 13 percent of the total number of visitors.