The new pavilion being built in a joint effort between Shanghai Automotive Industry and General Motors will give visitors a glimpse of the future. Both companies unveiled the designs of their 10,000-square-meter pavilion, which resembles a huge metal bowl standing along the Huangpu River in the Puxi section of the Expo site.

Kevin Wale, the President and Managing Director of GM China Group, says that the pavilion will highlight the company's vision for a safe, convenient, and highly intelligent future traffic system. The theme of the exhibition will be "sustainable personal mobility." In the future, vehicles will be able to communicate with each other, so there will be fewer accidents, said Xiao Guopu, vice president of SAIC.

The two companies plan to awe expo visitors in 2010 as the automakers have a chance to “wow” the public in a way not seen since the Chicago World Expo back in 1933 when the GM Pavilion proposed the idea of freeways at the expo site.  This launched the start of the freeway system in the USA, which was completed sixteen years later.

The two companies invite China's children to draw pictures of how they imagine cities in 2030; the automotive giants may even use these ideas in the exhibition in a supportive gesture. But when asked how much the project would cost, the companies noted that the cost of the pavilion will be "sky-high".

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