![]() In 2014, the average one-way commute in Beijing and Shanghai exceeded 50 minutes - longer than in New York - while six-hour round-trip commutes are not unknown. One reason is that China's breakneck urbanisation is creating cities that sprawl further than ever, leading to long commutes, reduced well-being and economic inefficiency. Yet for all its symbolic value, that model is almost certainly obsolete - and the Chinese cities of the future are likely to look very different. In recent years, seemingly every aspirational Chinese city has followed the same model of highly concentrated downtowns topped by massive towers. ![]() Some 46% of the 150-metre-plus buildings under construction in the world are in China, partly spurred by local governments keen to emulate Shanghai's skyline (just as the Shanghai government once hoped). That's common in many of China's biggest cities. According to CBRE Group Inc, a leasing agent for Shanghai Tower, more than 600,000 square metres of new office space went on the city's market in the first quarter of this year, with an additional 850,000 coming soon - even as rents are trending downward and vacancies are up. The city's commercial real-estate market couldn't justify the investment. If Shanghai wanted a private developer to take on such a project today, it wouldn't be able to find one. The winning proposal included three supertall buildings intended to represent the rise of Shanghai's financial district - and of China more broadly. In 1991, the local government held a competition to design a signature business district on the riverfront. Its plight suggests some major changes are afoot in the real-estate market - and in how the professional class lives and works in China.įor two decades, Shanghai's skyline has symbolised China's economic renaissance and modernisation. In this sense, Shanghai Tower signifies the end of an era. The only problem? Finding people to work there: Only 60% of Shanghai Tower is rented out, and only a third of current tenants have actually occupied their leased space. It looms over its neighbours - the world's ninth and 19th tallest buildings - in a supercluster of supertall structures unlike any other in the world. (Reuters file photo)Īt more than 610 metres, Shanghai Tower is the world's second-tallest building. Of the 106 buildings in this list, 21 are in Shenzhen, 13 are in Guangzhou, 9 are in Shanghai, 7 are in Hong Kong and 2 are in Beijing.Workmen clean the exterior of 632-metre Shanghai Tower, in the city's financial district of Pudong. This list does not include nonbuilding structures, such as the 604 m (1,982 ft) Canton Tower in Guangzhou, which despite being the second tallest structure in China, is actually an observation tower. This list includes skyscrapers in the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau. Tallest buildings Īs it is impractical to list all of its skyscrapers, the table below is an incomplete list of skyscrapers in China, ranking buildings that stand at least 300 metres (980 ft) tall, sorted by height. The country's Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development (MOHURD) said the action is driven by concerns on "issues such as costs, energy consumption, safety, and environmental impact". In October 2021, the Chinese government announced restrictions on the construction of supertall buildings. ![]() In June 2020, China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) imposed a ban on the construction of super high-rise buildings taller than 500 m (1,600 ft), due to safety reasons and waste of resources. Hong Kong is the Chinese city with the most skyscrapers, while Shenzhen has the most number of supertalls. The previous two tallest buildings in mainland China have also been in Shanghai. The tallest building in China is currently the Shanghai Tower, located in the namesake city at a height of 632 m (2,073 ft) it is the third tallest building in the world. China has also been a leader in construction technologies for skyscrapers, with 70 percent of the buildings over 300 m (980 ft) in the world being built by Chinese companies. 39 of the 76 completed buildings with a minimum height of 350 m (1,150 ft) worldwide are in China, while 44 out of 51 such buildings under construction in the world are also located in the country. ![]() Ĭhina is home to five of the world's ten tallest buildings. As of 2023, China has more than 3,000 buildings above 150 m (490 ft), of which 106 are supertall (300 m (980 ft) and above). Shenzhen skyline, with the Ping An International Finance CentreĬhina has the largest number of skyscrapers in the world, surpassing that of the top eleven largest, the United States (870+), United Arab Emirates (310+), South Korea (270+), Japan (270+), Malaysia (260+), Australia (140+), Indonesia (130+), Canada (130+), Philippines (120+) and Thailand (120+) combined. ![]()
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