Which are the tallest buildings in China?
On the 2026 Skyscraper Center list of completed buildings, the tallest in mainland China and Hong Kong by architectural height are Shanghai Tower (632 m, 2015), Ping An Finance Center in Shenzhen (599 m, 2017), Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre and Tianjin CTF Finance Centre (530 m each, 2016 and 2019) and CITIC Tower in Beijing (528 m, 2018). Next come Shanghai World Financial Center (492 m) and the International Commerce Centre in Hong Kong (484 m).
Source: Skyscraper Center, 100 Tallest Completed Buildings in the World in 2026, accessed 15 October 2026
How many of the world's ten tallest buildings are in China?
Five of the ten on the same 2026 list are in mainland China: Shanghai Tower (third), Ping An Finance Center (fifth), Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre and Tianjin CTF Finance Centre (tied for eighth) and CITIC Tower (tenth). The others are Burj Khalifa, Merdeka 118, Makkah Royal Clock Tower, Lotte World Tower and One World Trade Center. Because eighth place is tied, the list has no ninth.
Source: Skyscraper Center, 100 Tallest Completed Buildings in the World in 2026, accessed 15 October 2026
How tall is Shanghai Tower, and when was it completed?
Shanghai Tower is 632 metres to its architectural top, and 632 metres to its uppermost point including any antenna. Its uppermost occupied floor is at 583.4 metres and its observatory at 562.1 metres. It has 128 floors above ground and 5 below, was completed in 2015, and is a hotel and office building with a concrete-steel composite structure.
Source: Skyscraper Center, accessed 15 October 2026 (building 56)
Which towers stand in Lujiazui, and how tall are they?
Jin Mao Tower is 420.5 metres tall with 88 floors and was completed in 1999. Shanghai World Financial Center is 492 metres, or 494.3 metres including its crown, with 101 floors, completed in 2008. Shanghai Tower is 632 metres with 128 floors, completed in 2015. The Oriental Pearl Tower is a television tower, 468 metres including its antenna, and sits in Lujiazui in Pudong.
Source: Skyscraper Center, accessed 15 October 2026 (buildings 189, 131, 56); People's Daily East China News, 18 November 2004
What is the Oriental Pearl Tower?
The Oriental Pearl Radio and Television Tower is a television tower 468 metres tall, counting its steel antenna. A concrete shaft carries three steel spheres. It opened to the public on 18 November 1994. Sources disagree on the height of its observation levels, so none is given here.
Source: People's Daily East China News, 18 November 2004; China Daily, 1 September 2018; The Paper, 17 October 2021
How tall is Canton Tower?
Canton Tower, also called the Guangzhou TV Tower, is 604 metres tall by the architectural measure, and 604 metres to its uppermost point. Its uppermost occupied floor is at 448.8 metres and its observatory at 488 metres. It has 37 floors above ground and 2 below, was completed in 2010, and is classed as a telecommunications and observation tower with a composite structure.
Source: Skyscraper Center, accessed 15 October 2026 (building 9385)
What are the facts about the CCTV Headquarters in Beijing?
The CCTV Headquarters is an office building in Beijing completed in 2012. It is 234 metres tall to its architectural top and 237.5 metres including its antenna, with 54 floors above ground and 3 below. Its uppermost occupied floor is at 213.9 metres. In 2013 it won the Best Tall Building Worldwide award and the Best Tall Building by Region award.
Source: Skyscraper Center, accessed 15 October 2026 (building 1068)
How tall are the International Commerce Centre and Two IFC in Hong Kong?
The International Commerce Centre is 484 metres tall with 108 floors above ground and 4 below, completed in 2010, and its observatory is listed at 387.8 metres. Two International Finance Centre is 412 metres tall with 88 floors above ground and 6 below, completed in 2003. On the 2026 list they rank 13th and 39th among completed buildings in the world.
Source: Skyscraper Center, accessed 15 October 2026 (buildings 137, 205)
How do the heights of Canton Tower and the Oriental Pearl Tower compare?
Canton Tower is 604 metres by the Skyscraper Center's architectural measure. The Oriental Pearl Tower is 468 metres including its antenna, a different measure. The two numbers should not be ranked against each other directly. This page gives no height for other Chinese television towers, because no sourced figure was found.
Source: Skyscraper Center, accessed 15 October 2026 (building 9385); People's Daily East China News, 18 November 2004
How long is the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge?
The whole project, including the Hong Kong link and port, the Zhuhai and Macao links and port, and the main works, measures about 55 kilometres. The main works built jointly by the three places run 29.6 kilometres, made of 22.9 kilometres of bridge and a stretch of 6.7 kilometres that joins two artificial islands to an undersea tunnel. Construction began in December 2009, the bridge opened on 24 October 2018, and its design life is 120 years.
Source: China News Service, 24 October 2018; The Paper, 2018; China Daily, 29 June 2016
How high is Beipanjiang Bridge above its valley?
Beipanjiang Bridge, on the border of Guizhou and Yunnan, opened on 29 December 2016. It is 1,341.4 metres long with a main span of 720 metres. Its deck stands about 565 metres above the valley floor, and Xinhua gives 565.4 metres above the river in 2022 and reports that Guinness World Records certified the height. The Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge, opened in the same province in 2025, has a deck 625 metres above the water.
Source: CPPCC News Network, 30 December 2016; Sina, 10 January 2017; Xinhua, 23 September 2022; Xinhua, 28 September 2025
What are the Nanjing and Wuhan Yangtze River Bridges?
The Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge was begun on 1 September 1955, closed its main span on 1 July 1957 and opened on 15 October 1957. It is 1,670 metres long, with a road deck above a double-track railway, and has been a national protected site since 2013. The Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge was begun in January 1960 and opened its railway deck on 30 September 1968 and its road deck on 29 December 1968. It is not on the seventh or eighth national lists.
Source: Wuhan municipal government, October 2022; State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, October 2019; China National Radio, 15 October 2008; China News Service, 31 December 2008
What is Zhaozhou Bridge?
Zhaozhou Bridge, also called Anji Bridge, was built between 595 and 605 by the master builder Li Chun. It has stood for more than 1,400 years, according to China News Service, the Zhao County government account and Beijing Tourism. It is 64.4 metres long and its main arch, made of 28 parallel rings, has a clear span of 37.02 metres and a rise of 7.23 metres by two sources and 7.25 metres by a third. It is an open-spandrel segmental arch bridge. It has been a national protected site since 1961, and in 1991 the American Society of Civil Engineers named it an International Historic Civil Engineering Landmark.
Source: China News Service, 12 May 2022; The Paper, Zhao County government account; Beijing Tourism; State Council, first list of national protected sites, 1961
What is Lugou Bridge, and why is it called the Marco Polo Bridge?
Lugou Bridge southwest of Beijing is an 11-arch stone bridge 266.5 metres long and 9.3 metres wide, with 10 piers. Work began in 1189 and finished in 1192. It was originally named Guangli Bridge, and it takes the name Lugou from the Lugou River it crosses. It has been a national protected site since 1961. This page does not trace the Marco Polo name to a text, because the original passage was not checked.
Source: People's Daily Overseas Edition, 14 August 2023; Beijing Tourism; State Council, first list of national protected sites, 1961
What are Luoyang Bridge and Guangji Bridge?
Luoyang Bridge in Quanzhou was built from 1053 to 1059 under the prefect Cai Xiang. The extant bridge is 731 metres long and 4.5 metres wide, with 47 spans and 45 piers. It rests on a rubble raft foundation and was strengthened by cultivating oysters on its piers. It joined the Quanzhou World Heritage property in 2021. Guangji Bridge in Chaozhou was begun in 1171 and is 518 metres long, with a floating span of eighteen boats. Both have been national protected sites since 1988.
Source: Quanzhou municipal government, 28 December 2024; China News Service, 11 May 2022; Xinhua, 13 October 2020; China Daily, 20 November 2020
What is a wind and rain bridge, and what is Chengyang Bridge?
A wind and rain bridge is a timber bridge that combines a crossing, a covered corridor and pavilions. Chengyang Yongji Bridge in Sanjiang County, Guangxi, is built without nails, its timbers joined with tenons. China News Service dates its start to 1912 and Xinhua dates its completion to 1924. It has been a national protected site since 1982.
Source: China News Service, 11 December 2018; Xinhua, 28 September 2025; State Council, second list of national protected sites, 1982
What is the Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon Glass Bridge?
The Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon Glass Bridge is a suspension bridge with a glass deck, 430 metres long and 6 metres wide, about 300 metres above the canyon floor. Xinhua and China News Service both reported the start of trial operation in August 2016. Sources describe its length in two ways, as the full deck and as the main span, with the same number.
Source: Xinhua, 21 August 2016; China News Service, 20 August 2016
What is Chaotianmen Bridge in Chongqing?
Chaotianmen Bridge crosses the Yangtze in Chongqing between Jiangbei and Nan'an districts. It is a steel arch bridge with a main span of 552 metres, and it opened to traffic in 2009. Chongqing's government account and CGTN both gave the span figure in 2021.
Source: Chongqing Release, 3 October 2021; CGTN, 21 October 2021
How large is the New Century Global Center in Chengdu?
The New Century Global Center was completed in 2013 and is 100 metres tall with 18 floors above ground, according to the Skyscraper Center. News reports from 2013 give its total floor area as 1.7 million square metres, which at the time was larger than the Dubai airport.
Source: Skyscraper Center, accessed 15 October 2026 (building 16624); Associated Press via Gulf News, 2013; Canadian Consulting Engineer, 2013
What is the Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge in Guizhou?
The Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge crosses the Huajiang canyon between Guanling and Zhenfeng counties in Guizhou and opened to traffic on 28 September 2025. It is a steel truss suspension bridge 2,890 metres long, with a main span of 1,420 metres and a deck 625 metres above the water. Xinhua calls it the world record holder for both height and mountain bridge span, with a deck nearly 60 metres higher than Beipanjiang Bridge.
Source: Xinhua, 28 September 2025; China News Service, 29 September 2025; China Daily, 28 September 2025
Which other Guizhou bridges attract sightseers?
Balinghe Bridge in Anshun is a suspension bridge 2,237 metres long, with a main span of 1,088 metres and a deck 370 metres above the river. People's Daily reports a sightseeing passage inside its steel structure and seven international base jumping meets. Pingtang Bridge in Qiannan, finished in 2019, is a three-tower cable-stayed bridge 2,135 metres long with a main tower of 332 metres, and its service area has a viewing platform and a bridge museum.
Source: People's Daily, 25 August 2023; People's Daily Overseas Edition, 10 July 2024; Xinhua via China Daily, 14 November 2024; China News Service, 30 December 2019; China Daily, 22 May 2023
What is Aizhai Bridge in Hunan?
Aizhai Bridge is a suspension bridge across the Dehang Grand Canyon near Jishou in Xiangxi, Hunan, and it opened on 31 March 2012. Reports call 1,176 metres its main span, and some call it the bridge's length. They give its deck height as 335, 350 or 355 metres above the canyon, so no single figure is chosen here. With Shibadong village and the Dehang canyon it forms a scenic area that was rated 5A on 11 June 2021.
Source: China Daily, 8 April 2026; People's Daily Overseas Edition, 13 May 2021; China Writers Association, 20 April 2021; People's Tribune, 24 September 2025; Hunan Daily via China Daily, 16 June 2021
