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Hungary Day at Expo

Country’s Expo day focuses on ways Hungary and China can work together. Hungary capped off its Aug. 22 pavilion day at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo with the signing of a cooperation agreement between several of the country’s water industry companies and Chinese government officials, a move that not only continues to strengthen relations between the two countries, but also serves to further develop the water industry in terms of technology, construction and scientific exchange between the two regions.

Hungary is also using this Expo to try and brand itself as a place of “harmony,” which is very much in line with China’s own mantra of harmonious society, a cornerstone to the country’s current leadership. 

The centerpiece to the Hungary pavilion is the world’s largest Gömböc, a convex three-dimensional object that, when resting on a flat surface, has just one stable and one unstable point of equilibrium, and what the pavilion calls “harmony itself.” If placed on a horizontal surface in an arbitrary position, the Gömböc returns to a stable equilibrium point. The Gömböc consists of homogenous material, thus the shape itself accounts for self-righting. As two Hungarian scientists created the Gömböc, it is the only object to have two equilibrium points, finding stability instantly no matter what position it is placed in, and is revered for its simplistic display of a geometric mathematical problem. 

Source: http://shanghaiexpo.eu/email/newsletter19/enews1.html