Yingli Tower, Modern office skyscraper in Jiefangbei CBD, Chongqing, China.
Yingli Tower, also called Ying Li International Financial Centre, is a 288-metre skyscraper in the Jiefangbei CBD of Chongqing, with 58 floors above ground and 5 below, covering about 160,000 square metres on a 5,615.26-square-metre site. It holds offices and a retail podium. Articulated setbacks taper the shaft, as on the Empire State Building, and the crown curves inward into a single pinnacle of tessellated diamonds.
Construction began in 2009 and was completed in 2012. That year the tower overtook the Chongqing World Trade Center as the tallest building in Western China, a title it lost later the same year to Chongqing Poly Tower. The project was managed throughout by Jones Lang LaSalle, with CBRE providing management services and AECOM technical and management support.
The tower's name links it to the Yingli group, and its design borrows from American skyscraper traditions: the setbacks and tapering shaft recall the Empire State Building, while the outward-curving corner setbacks and inward-curving crown of tessellated diamonds echo Art Deco detailing. Its silhouette is often compared to Hong Kong's IFC 2.
Yingli Tower is an office building with a retail podium, not a public attraction, so interior access is limited to tenants and shoppers. The nearest metro stations are Jiaochangkou and Xiaoshizi on Chongqing Rail Transit; the Yangtze River Cableway's Xinhua Road station is also nearby. The tower stands in the Jiefangbei CBD, and its 58 above-ground floors sit over 5 basement levels.
The tower's corners curve outward while its crown features tessellated diamond patterns that curve inward toward the top. These design details make it instantly recognizable against the city's other tall buildings.
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