DAR ES SALAAM, April 30 (Xinhua) -- Tanzania Information Services Assistant Director Raphael Hokororo on Friday termed 2010 Shanghai World Expo as a good opportunity to promote exchanges and enhance understanding among all countries.

Hokororo made the remarks in a phone interview with Xinhua just after the end of the grand and splendid opening ceremony of the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, noting that the Expo would enhance the relations between African countries and China, as well as that of China and developing countries.

"The Expo will help further open China's market to African products, and Chinese products to enter the African markets," the Tanzanian media official said, hailing China's much support to African countries and the deepened Africa-China partnership.

The Shanghai World Expo is an international exposition that will take place from May 1 to Oct. 31 this year and cover a surface of more than 5 square km in Shanghai, under its main theme of "Better City, Better Life".

It was the first time for the 159-year-old World Expo to be held in a developing country since the inaugural fair in London in 1851.

A total of 189 countries would present their best at the six- month event, which is expected to attract 70 million visitors from China and abroad and likely to be the ever largest World Expo.