Shun Hing Square

Template:Infobox building Template:Chinese Shun Hing Square (Template:Zh), also known as "Di Wang Tower"<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> (Template:Zh) is a Template:Convert-tall skyscraper in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, China. Upon its completion in 1996, it became the tallest building in China, until being surpassed by CITIC Plaza in the next year.

Background

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 elevators and two service elevators, 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.<ref name="Shun Hing Square"/><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 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.

Records held

As of October 2025, the building is

• The seventh tallest in Shenzhen
• 29th tallest building in mainland China
• 55th tallest in the world
• The third 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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 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).<ref name="Shun Hing Square">Template:Cite web</ref>
• The first in China to reach Template:Cvt.
• Tallest building constructed in Shenzhen in the 1990s.
• Tallest building in Shenzhen from 1996 to September 2011 until surpassed by the nearby Template:Convert Kingkey 100.

Image gallery

• Shun Hing Square with the annex shown in front
  Shun Hing Square with the annex shown in front
• Shun Hing Square as shown from the Ping An Finance Center
  Shun Hing Square as shown from the Ping An Finance Center
• Seeing from the top of Shun Hing Square
  Seeing from the top of Shun Hing Square

See also

• List of tallest buildings in Shenzhen
• List of tallest structures in China
• List of tallest buildings in the world

External links

• Shun Hing Square on CTBUH Skyscraper Center
• Meridian View Center observation deck video
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