Gunay attends national day at world fair in Shanghai

Li Hong Feng before the event's opening. In his address, Gunay praised Chinese officials' staging of the Expo 2010 World's Fair, the world's second-biggest event after the Olympics. "My visit shows that there is a great potential to boost culture and tourism relations between our countries," he said. Gunay said some 500 Turkish students are bound for China to work on their Chinese, saying this shows bridges are being built between the peoples of the two countries. For his part, Li spoke of the friendly relations between Turkey and China, saying that bilateral political confidence and cooperation are on the rise based on mutual trade and investment interests. The opening ceremony ended with a performance by Turkish dance group Fire of Anatolia.