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What skyscrapers are there in China?

China's skyscraper is the Jinmao Tower in Shanghai, which takes the design ideas of China's most traditional high-rise building, the tower, and applies them to a modern building, making it a skyscraper with Chinese characteristics. It is the tallest super high-rise building built in China and ranks third in the world.

Shanghai Jinmao Tower, located in the Lujiazui area of Pudong, has 88 floors above the ground and 3 floors underground, with a total height of 420. 3 meters, second only to the completed Twin Towers Kuala Lumpur Center Tower (450 meters) and the Sears Tower in Chicago, USA (443 meters).

The building is square at the base and tapers in at the corners to form a traditional tower. The facade is constructed with a double-layer glass curtain wall, giving it a delicate and beautiful appearance.

The tubular structure used in Jinmao Tower is the most superior and perfect structural form, which can make components with high resistance with the least amount of materials. In other words, the tubular members have great tolerance to external pressures.

The skyscraper's outer wall around the composition of the square cylinder, architects call it the outer cylinder; central elevator shafts, stairwells, pipe shafts, etc., composed of closed internal core cylinder, known as the inner cylinder. Inner tube around a layer of floor plates like bamboo joints to strengthen the bamboo tube as the inner tube and outer tube connected into a solid whole, which is the most commonly used skyscraper tube in the tube structure.