Shun Hing Square

Shun Hing Square (Chinese: 信兴广场), also known as "Di Wang Tower"^[3] (地王大厦) is a 384-meter (1,260 ft)-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.

Shun Hing Square
信兴广场
Shun Hing Square in February 2021
General information
Status	Completed
Type	Office & retail
Location	5002 Shennan East Road, Luohu District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
Coordinates	22°32′43″N 114°06′21″E
Construction started	April 21, 1993; 32 years ago (1993)
Completed	March 9, 1996; 29 years ago (1996)
Opening	June 27, 1996; 29 years ago (1996)
Owner	Kumagai Gumi Company[1]
Height
Architectural	384 m (1,260 ft)[1]
Roof	325 m (1,066 ft)
Top floor	298 m (978 ft)[1]
Observatory	298 m (978 ft)[1]
Technical details
Floor count	69[1] (+3 basement floors)
Floor area	280,000 m2 (3,000,000 sq ft)[1]
Lifts/elevators	36[1]
Design and construction
Architect(s)	K.Y. Cheung Design Associates[1]
Developer	Shun Hing Group
Structural engineer	Maunsell AECOM Group[1]
References
[1][2]

Shun Hing Square
Simplified Chinese	信兴广场
Traditional Chinese	信興廣場
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Xìnxìng Guǎngchǎng Yue: Cantonese Jyutping seon3 hing1 gwong2 coeng4

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.^[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.

Records held

As of April 2023, the building is

• The fifth tallest in Shenzhen
• 25th tallest building in mainland China
• 49th tallest in the world
• 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.

Image gallery

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

See also

• China portal
• Architecture portal

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