Chongqing World Trade Center, Commercial skyscraper in Jiefangbei CBD, China
Chongqing World Trade Center is a 283 meter tall commercial tower with 60 floors above ground and 2 basement levels for parking. The building houses office space, retail shops, and service facilities throughout its structure.
Construction ran from 2002 to 2005, with the structure topped out in 2004. It was once the tallest building in central and western China, until Wuhan's Minsheng Bank Building (336 m) surpassed it in 2006 and Chongqing's Poly International Plaza (286 m) did so in June 2010.
The tower's podium housed the Chongqing branch of Japanese electronics retailer Yamada Denki from 2011, a sign of the Jiefangbei district's role as a shopping and business address. Inside are a five-star hotel lobby, teahouses, bars, a piano bar, a coffee bar, a Western restaurant, a fitness centre, a bath facility, table-tennis and chess rooms, a book bar and international conference halls.
Metro Line 2's Linjiangmen Station exits connect to the tower's basement levels one and two, so the retail podium can be reached without going outside. The building has two underground floors used as car park. A cableway station, Xinhua Road Station, stands nearby. The 360-degree observation deck sits at the top, under a 16-metre ceiling.
At the top of the tower is a 16-metre-high 360-degree observation deck, and the roof carries a 1,400-square-metre helipad. The building's total floor area is close to 130,000 square metres.
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