Expo bell from the railway station south square bell

Today is Shanghai Shenbo successful 3 anniversary, the bell tower officially unveiled at the ShangHai Railway Station to the South Plaza center. Shanghai as the first theme of the Expo as a three-dimensional structure, will ring the bell at the ShangHai Railway Station. According to experts predict that as the ShangHai Railway Station north gate of land and a major transportation hub of Shanghai City, Shanghai World Expo in 2010, will have to travel, sightseeing, business more than 22 million passenger trips from entering Shanghai, so the ShangHai Railway Station will become World Expo's "land Yingbin hall". It is reported that, officially opened the Expo tower jointly built by the Shanghai Expo Bureau, Shanghai Railway Bureau and the Zhabei District, the subject was rectangular, about 15 meters high, 2.4 meters wide, the overall shape is like a watch on your wrist, and the slightest have sounded every time music bell. At the top of the tower, southeast northwest have large dial, south of Shanghai 2010 World Expo countdown signs, and the same proportion amplifying the Expo marks; and in its East and west sides, there are two large screen LED, will play the previous World Expo rolling classic scene.

Clock tower with Watch

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Since the four side column of the tower by light design, so the night, by the lights outline the contour lines of the tower. Design party said that the Expo tower clock signal based system using GPS technology, which accept the time signal of global 24 geostationary satellites to send and maintain international standards of automatic timing, travel time accuracy reached a year error of 0.01 seconds. "Tower even if long-term is shut down, as long as the restoration of power supply, can automatically track the standard time." "In the public places of Shanghai, the Expo tower is one of the most precise clocks," said the designer."