What is the tallest tower in China?

Currently China's tallest tower should be the Canton Tower

Canton Tower (Canton Tower), also known as the new TV tower in Guangzhou, nicknamed the Little Barbarian Waist,

located in the Tianhe District of Guangzhou City, China (Yezhou Island) Chigang Tower near the ground, the elevation of 600

meters from the south bank of the Pearl River, 125 meters, and the Haixinsha Island and the Pearl River New City across the river.

It is a tower similar to the Kobe Port Tower shape to sightseeing and tourism, with radio and television transmission

, culture and entertainment and urban window function of the airwaves tower, for the 2010 held in Guangzhou

16th Asian Games to provide broadcasting services.

Guangzhou Tower was completed in September 2009 by Shanghai Construction Engineering Group.

On October 1, 2010, the tower was officially opened to the public. The overall height of the completed tower reached

600 meters, including 454 meters for the main body of the tower and 146 meters for the antenna mast, making it a new landmark in Guangzhou

. However, this height was surpassed on March 1, 2012, by the world's tallest tower

Tokyo Skytree (634 meters)

in Japan. In addition, the Canton Tower is 228 meters shorter than the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa

(828 meters), which ranks No. 3 on the list of the world's tallest free-standing structures.