Bucharest, July 24 /Agerpres/ - Romania's Commissioner General at EXPO 2010, Ferdinand Nagy, on Saturday awarded the visitor number 2,000,000 at the Romanian Pavilion - Greenopolis. According to a press release of the Foreign Ministry, Han Liang, who lives near Shanghai, won, on this occasion, a holiday for two people in Romania.

On July 29, when Romania celebrates its National Day at EXPO 2010, Han Liang and his wife, Wang Yun Zheng, will receive from the Foreign Minister Teodor Baconschi and the Minister of Regional Development and Tourism, Elena Udrea, the voucher to be used for a trip to Romania.

Han Liang, aged 36, and his wife, Wang Yun Zheng, 32, climbed on stage amidst the rapturous applause of over 200 visitors attending the event, and the Commissioner General Ferdinand Nagy has offered them the special T-shirts reading 'visitor number 200,000,000.'

The two live in the Zhejiang Province, two hours far from Shanghai, have a little girl of six years old and work at a power plant.

'This was a huge surprise for us, we couldn't believe it at first that we were so lucky. I have never been to Europe, for we were waiting for our little girl to grow a few more years, but now we will use with great joy this opportunity,' said Han Liang.

'We are honored and happy to announce that, according to statistics and our systems of counting, the number of visitors to the Romanian Pavilion exceeded today the important threshold of 2 million, after 85 days since the opening of the EXPO (May 1 to July 24, 2010),' said Ferdinand Nagy on the Romanian Pavilion stage.

Romania's Pavilion at EXPO 2010 received about 24,000 visitors daily. Until Saturday, July 24, the World Exhibition opened at May 1 had approx. 32 million visitors in total.

'A number of 2 million visitors is significant and we believe that this interest of the public in the Romanian Pavilion comes from the interest aroused by all that one can discover in Greenopolis and, not least, because of the traditional relations of friendship between the Chinese and the Romanian people,' said Ferdinand Nagy.

The special programme for the National Day will begin on July 29, at 10:30 a.m. local time with an official ceremony to continue with the launch of Romania's tourist brand by the Ministry of Regional Development and Tourism and to end after 10:30 p.m. with a concert of the National Radio Orchestra and artists Damian Draghici and Grigore Lese.

[Source: Romanian National News Agency AGERPRES ]