Schwarzenegger to Offer up Bay Area for World Expo

Governor Schwarzenegger plans to make a pitch for the Bay Area to host the world's fair ten years from now. The governor plans to make his pitch when he visits the Shanghai World Expo this week.

Schwarzenegger is scheduled to depart Thursday for a six day trip to China. After attending the expo in Shanghai his spokesman says he'll meet with event leaders to sell the idea of Silicon Valley hosting it in 2020. Click to Listen

Schwarzenegger will be joined in China by leaders of the Bay Area Council, a business lobbying group that plans to lead the effort for a national bid. They say the event could benefit the region for decades.

The World Expo, formerly known as the World's Fair, is held every five years, and will take place in Milan in 2015.

The Bay Area hosted it twice in San Francisco, once on Treasure Island in 1940, and in the Marina District in 1915.

Official bids for the 2020 expo will probably be made next year.