KINSHASA, April 26 (Xinhua) -- China will be once again "on the international spotlight" after the opening of the Shanghai World Expo on May 1, a journalist in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) claimed ahead of the event to catch eyes after the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
Gilbert Mangenda Tshibangu, a journalist working with the daily newspaper Le Potentiel told Xinhua in an interview on Sunday. He has been invited by the Chinese government for the news coverage of the Shanghai World Expo.
"The Expo2010 will be an occasion for this economic giant to showcase her organizational capacity and also to show the world the journey that has been used by her people to get to a point of being considered an economic, scientific, technological and military giant today" he said.
"I first want to thank the Chinese government for the honor it has bestowed on me and the opportunity that it has given me by inviting me to this great festival where more than 50 countries of the world will showcase their cultural, scientific, industrial, agricultural and technological diversity with their latest technological inventions," he added.
Magenda said he is "very interested in the Chinese culture that dates back more than 5,000 years in history," and convinced that "it is because of this cultural force that China has managed to become one of the greatest economic power-houses."
