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The leaders of three main political parties in Britain began the final TV debate on Thursday evening in Birmingham before the upcoming general election to be held on May 6.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown, also the Labor party leader, opposition Conservative party leader David Cameron, and Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg focused on economy during the 90-minute debate hosted by the BBC.

During the opening statement, Cameron promised to cut welfare dependency, fix banks and get value for money from public services.

Clegg stressed that when cuts are made, public services must be protected, adding that taxes must be fairer while Brown said he prevented the economic crisis from becoming a “calamity”, and Britain’s future is on the ballot paper next week.

On Wednesday, Brown plunged his campaign to win the election into crisis, with an unguarded comment branding a 65-year-old woman who he had just had a talk with as “a bigot”.

With only a week to go to the election, some opinion polls put Brown’s governing Labor in third place, behind the Liberal Democrats, the third and largely ignored party in British politics for the past 90 years.

But the survey showed that the election remains a three-horse race although opposition Conservative party are still ahead.

A show for 10 master cases in Chinese contemporary art is scheduled to open in Shanghai on May 1 to echo the official opening of the World Expo 2010.

The one-month show, held by the Shanghai 800 Art Zone at the city’s Yangpu district, will display works from 10 master artists, ranging from oil paintings to photographs, wash paintings and calligraphy.

These works will reflect various kinds of contemporary subjects by using traditional skills and modern art language from natural environment to social changes, people’s life and mental outlook, said Ren Guomin, art director of the Shanghai 800 Art Zone.

“Visitors can find out from the works their intense emotion to probe into the Chinese contemporary art,” said Ren.

He cited artist Li Huasheng as an example, who has innovated wash paintings by using abstract art, providing room for wash paintings to develop.

Calligraphers from Taiwan will display their works at the show to showcase the various features of calligraphy by discussing the relations between calligraphy and industry.

They have absorbed knowledge from Chinese and Western literature, fine arts, design, music, operas, films, dance, sports, sculpture and architecture to reflect the life of the times, Ren said.

The Shanghai 800 Art Zone, one of the city’s first batch of artistic industrial parks, covers an area of about 60,000 square meters. To date, 40 artistic institutions have set foot on the zone for art creation, including King Space, Uwantart, The gallery and TONY & TINA.

Ren said the zone plans to launch a project to build a contemporary art museum for public service with an area of 20,000 square meters. The project is expected to cost an investment of 50 million yuan.

“With such a museum, the zone is able to provide a platform for artists from home and abroad to probe into, create and display contemporary art,” he said.