An artist's rendition of the Aviation Pavilion

China’s two aviation industrial giants today began building an Aviation Pavilion for the Expo 2010.

The China Aviation Industry Corporation and China Eastern Airlines, both State-owned enterprises, will spend 280 million yuan (US$40.88 million) for the 4,000-square-meter Aviation Pavilion.

The pavilion, which will look like a huge white cloud in the Puxi section of the Expo site, will give visitors the feeling of "flying in the sky."

It will create a magical atmosphere inside the pavilion using sound, light, electricity, gas and water.

The two enterprises will show visitors how the technologies in aviation and airline services help make people's lives better, echoing the "Better City, Better Life" Expo theme.

The pavilion is expected to be completed before March.

Huang Shuhe, deputy director of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, Zhong Yanqun, fulltime deputy director of the World Expo 2010 Shanghai Executive Committee, Hong Hao, director-general of the Bureau of Shanghai World Expo Coordination, Lin Zuoming, general manager of the China Aviation Industry Corporation, and Liu Shaoyong, general manager of the China Eastern Airlines, were also present.