The morning of July 5, 2021 , The Consulate General of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in Shanghai held a flower- presenting ceremony where is in front of the statue of Bolivar in the south square of the World Expo Museum，which to celebrated the 210th anniversary of Venezuelan independence.

　　Every countries people gather together

　　Venezuela Consul General in Shanghai Leisbeth Coromoto Berrios Leon, Vice Consul Willmer Bladimir Acosta Pinero, Argentina Consul General Pablo Agustin Obregon, Consul General of Panama Roberto Jou Law, Cuba Consul General Nestor Enrique Torres Olivera, Uruguay Consul General Leonardo Olivera D´Andrea, Iran Consul General Ramazan Parvaz, Acting Consul General Carlos Valera Paulino, Russian Deputy Consul General Vladimir Budko and consulate relatives and staff about 20 people attended the flower presenting ceremony.

　　The Venezuelan Consul General in Shanghai——Leisbeth Berrios acknowledge every countries people arrived here and spoke to the distinguished guests present at the ceremony.

　　Director Liu Xiuhua of World Expo Museum、Representatives of the relevant business departments were also invited to attend the ceremony. Agenda for the activities consisted of the Consul General delivered a speech、played the national anthem of Venezuela and China、presented the flower baskets to the statue.

　　Director Liu Xiuhua of the World Expo Museum was communicating with Leisbeth Berrios whose the Consul General of Venezuela in Shanghai.

　　Director Liu Xiuhua showed this ceremony not only includes the World Expo elements，and integrating the friendship between China and Venezuela at today’s ceremony. It was our honour to be communicate with the Venezuelan Consulate General and the People of Venezuela. Under the current impact of the COVID-19 ,Bolivar was be a leader in the liberation of South America, it had a great cultural symbolic significance to hold this solemn and short ceremony. We could believe if everybody as long as get together，we will fight against the human challenges brought about the epidemic ,we also can regain peaceful and beauty.

　　The Consulate General of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in Shanghai holds the National Day activities in the Expo Museum every year ,this event reflects the Expo Museum which has the impotant responsibility about inheriting the World Expo Museum heritage and continuing the effect of the Expo. The World Expo Museum also exchanged friendship, built a platform for South American consulates and conducted popular cultural exchanges from taking this platform.

　　Statue of Simon Bolivar

　　The statue was originally located in the Bolivarian Plaza outside the Venezuela Pavilion at Expo 2010 Shanghai in China. The work was created by renowned Chinese sculptor Yuan Xi-kun, invited by Hugo Rafar Chavez Frias, President of Venezuela and eternal commander of the Bolivarian Revolution.

　　Simon Bolivar (1783 – 1830) was a Venezuelan "liberator" and which was a leader against the Spanish colonists. The movement eventually won independence for Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia.

　　Venezuela and the World Expo

　　The Venezuelan National Pavilion at Expo 2010 Shanghai, China, it looked like the "Moby Ring", and its three-dimensional stereo structure was called the "Klein bottle", it meant that there has a single、continuous closed surface without boundaries; and its exterior and interior harmony compares a city like an uninterrupted road.

　　Something had highly distinctive elements integrate with each other, and it showed the Venezuelan culture, art and life, like the opening courtyard, rising steps, traditional Aboriginal living space, opening Bolivarian Square.

　　The outer facade and inside facade of the Venezuela Museum was decorated with 4,500 ceramic red flowers, each with eight interlocking petals, which was echoing the Mosby ring design inside the pavilion to structure vaguely the circular line weakens the boundary of hierarchy, a metaphor for urban development is like an uninterrupted road.

　　Riding statue of Simon Bolivar at Shanghai World Expo 2010.It is now displayed in the South Square of the World Expo Museum

　　The Venezuelan Pavilion donated not only a riding statue of South American Liberator Simon Bolivar, but also small red flowers spread around the venue during the Expo 2010 Shanghai.

　　Now, these exquisite ceramic red flowers are displayed in the World Expo Museum, adding colorful to the Museum.