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Reaching for the skies

(China Daily)
Updated: 2010-12-28 08:04

In just 30 years, tall towers are now seen as a way to showcase progress and might, as well as promote a city's images to tourists and transnational capital. Today, China boasts seven of the world's 15 tallest buildings - the United States has just three - and is still leading in terms of constructing new ones. According to Antony Wood, executive director of the US-based Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, in just two years, 34 of the world's 100 tallest buildings will be in China.