Dragon Tower, Television and observation tower in Harbin, China.
Dragon Tower is a steel television and observation tower in Harbin that rises 336 meters high with a distinctive octagonal form. The structure combines a parabolic profile with two visitor decks and multiple facilities distributed across different levels.
Construction began in April 1998, and the tower entered service on 28 October 2000, opening to the public the following day. It was designed by Ma Renle, a steel-structure specialist at Tongji University in Shanghai, and built by the Heilongjiang Power Transmission and Transformation Engineering Company with about 31,000 tonnes of material and a total investment of nearly 200 million yuan.
The name Long Ta (Dragon Tower) is also given as Heilongjiang Tower, after the province whose FM and TV broadcasts it transmits. Inside, the tower holds themed halls including a "Yanhuang Zisun" shrine to the legendary ancestors of the Chinese people, a dinosaur exhibition, a hands-on play area and a 4D cinema. It is rated a national AAAA tourist attraction.
The two viewing decks sit between 181 and 206 meters high and provide panoramic views across the city. Visitors can explore both disk-shaped and spherical viewing areas designed for different perspectives.
The tower's steel lattice reaches 336 m, with the antenna spanning 220.5 to 336 m and the top floor at 216.10 m. Its rotating hall sits between 181 and 206 m, formed by a saucer-shaped base and a spherical hall. The structure is 3 m taller than Tokyo Tower and 12 m taller than the Eiffel Tower.
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