A 739-METER-TALL skyscraper will be built in the Caiwuwei area in Luohu District, which will become the highest building in Shenzhen upon completion, the Shenzhen Evening News reported Thursday.

    Kingkey Group, a Shenzhen-based property developer, has submitted a blueprint of the building to the Luohu District Government. Apart from the 739-meter-tall building, to be named “H700 Shenzhen Tower,” the company will build another skyscraper taller than 680 meters in the area. Both buildings will be located on Shennan Road and connected by an overpass.

    The Caiwuwei area, bordered by the MixC shopping center to the east, Hongling Road to the west, Binhe Road to the south and Hongbao Road to the north, occupies an area of over 310,000 square meters. The Luohu District Government plans to turn the area into a top-notch financial and commercial hub by pulling down a number of urban villages.

    The area’s renovation is the highlight of Luohu’s ongoing efforts to turn itself into an international consumption center. The area will host top international fashion institutions and brands, according to the district reconstruction bureau chief Wang Cefei in an earlier interview.

    Shenzhen is now home to more than 1,100 completed high-rises, according to reports.

    Skyscraper construction started in Shenzhen in 1979, at a time when the tallest building in the city was five stories tall. In the next decade, 300 high-rises were erected in the city, including the International Trade Building. It was the city’s first skyscraper and the tallest building on the Chinese mainland upon its opening in 1985.

    As Shenzhen’s high-rise construction boom progressed into the 1990s, the skyscrapers erected in the city became taller. In 1996, the 69-story 383-meter Diwang Building located in Caiwuwei was the city’s first building to exceed 300 meters in height and was the tallest building in Asia at the time.

    In 2011, Kingkey 100, a 448-meter-tall skyscraper in Caiwuwei, became the tallest building in Shenzhen.

    Currently, the 592.5-meter-tall Ping’an Financial Center in Futian District is the tallest building in Shenzhen and also the fourth tallest in the world.

    The Shanghai Tower, which was completed in March this year, is 632 meters high and currently the tallest building in China and the second-tallest in the world, surpassed only by the Burj Khalifa Tower in Dubai that stands at 829.8 meters.

    (Zhang Yang)