Made up of five 60-hectare (148 acre) zones, the spotlight shone brightly on Expo Park during Shanghai's six-month World's Fair stint.

Though many travelers arrived via the Expo-dedicated Metro Line 13 (closed since the end of the Expo), there were also six land entrances, as well as four ferry piers for travelers coming in and out of the park. Two more ferry piers worked exclusively within the Park area, transferring passengers from one side of the river to the other.

The Pudong section of the Expo Park was also site of a 14-hectare (35 acre) wetland park—something of a return to form for a part of Shanghai that, until the super-high-rise Lujiazui financial district sprouted up starting in the late 1980s, was largely swamp, farmland and warehouses. This formerly industrial parcel of land is now being repurposed to act as both a bird sanctuary and natural water purifier in the name of the Expo theme of "Better City, Better Life."

Among the other attractions in the Park were 60 national, international and corporate pavilions, as well as a World Expo Centre and Expo Performing Arts Center, both of which have remained standing, along with others including the China Pavilion, after Expo's end. The Expo run is memorialized temporarily (until the Expo Museum opens in 2015) at the Commemoration Exhibition of Expo 2010 Shanghai in the former Cisco Pavilion.

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