The building was built at a pace of four floors in nine days. The main tower contains office space, a car park and a 5-story shopping arcade complex with four sets of escalators, five passenger lifts and two service lifts, and a floor area ranging from 3450 m2 to 4900 m2. On the top floor (69th floor) is the "Meridian View Center," an observation deck.[4][5]
Its common nickname, "Diwang Building" derives from the auction price for the piece of land it stands being the most expensive in Shenzhen at the time. 24,500 tonnes of steel were used in construction.
The tallest building in the world with fewer than 70 floors
The tallest all-steel building in China.
The tallest building in China from 1996 to the completion of CITIC Plaza in Guangzhou in 1997.[6]
The first skyscraper in China to be one of the ten tallest in the world (Bank of China Tower and Central Plaza, of Hong Kong, were constructed and topped out while Hong Kong was still under British sovereignty).[4]
The first in China to reach 1,150 ft (350 m).
Tallest building constructed in Shenzhen in the 1990s.
Tallest building in Shenzhen from 1996 to September 2011 until surpassed by the nearby 441.8-metre-tall (1,449 ft) Kingkey 100.
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