Next stop for London reception

Deputy mayor of London Richard Barnes, the British Consul General Consulate in Shanghai with four Chinese athletes.

The second day of London week kicked off with a series of presentations focusing on the legacy plans for the 2012 Games in London. This event looked at how London is planning to deliver a lasting and sustainable legacy to the 2012 Games and create new communities in east London.

While Dan Epstein, Head of Sustainability at the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) spoke about the ODA's commitment to delivering a sustainable 2012 Games, Peter Bishop, Deputy CEO at the London Development Agency (LDA) shared London's approach to legacy masterplanning and how integrated urban planning will unlock Stratford in east London and its surrounding areas.

The London delegation then visited the China Pavilion at the World Expo. This pavilion had the theme of harmony and showed how China past, present and future strives to live in a harmonious state.

Whilst the Mayor of London helped generate excitement about the approaching 2012 Games back in the capital, Richard Barnes, Deputy Mayor of London and Carma Elliott, British Consul General in Shanghai, welcomed guests at the UK Pavilion.

Having emphasised the importance of legacy to London and the capital’s excitement about the approaching 2012 Games, Richard presented a number of 2008 medallists from Team China with a “Next Stop London” flag.

The national youth theatre, who sang the British national anthem at the Beijing 2008 closing ceremony wrote and performed a song especially for the occasion 'This is the London song'.

Wednesday will see day one of the sustainable cities programme in partnership with the Institute for Sustainability (IfS), Econetworks and the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology.