BUSINESS leaders will don hard hats to help build a house and Liverpool schools will forge a partnership with one of China’s top sporting academies to mark Liverpool Day in Shanghai.

The October 16 event will also include music, history and sporting activities as Liverpool celebrates its success at the Shanghai Expo.

The day will showcase the city’s diversity and talent at the culmination of a six- month presence which is expected to see more than 700,000 people visit the Liverpool Pavilion, making it the most popular of any city exhibiting in the Expo.

Liverpool Vision chief executive Max Steinberg said: “The test for us is not the visitors and the fact we are the most popular pavilion, it is the promise £50m of investment will come back to the city.”

He added: “We wanted to leave Shanghai with a bang, we wanted the sounds of the city to be echoing in Shanghai’s ears.”

The day’s activities will include football coaching sessions by Everton FC, talks on Liverpool’s past and present by city historian Steve Binns and World Heritage Site manager John Hinchliffe, and the screening of a film – Jack’s Journey – made by disabled members of the Oakfield Day Service, in Anfield.

Members of the Liverpool business community will help charity Habitat For Humanity build a new home, sponsored by Liverpool FC, for a Shanghai family.

City schools Cardinal Heenan, Archbishop Beck and Childwall College will also sign a sporting partnership.