Shenzhen, China
In the last years of the 20th century, China and Malaysia became the first countries outside of the U.S. to boast supertalls. Completed in 1996, Shun Hing Square was the first skyscraper in Shenzen, a city in Guangdong Province with a population of almost 13 million in 2018 and a part of the Pearl River Delta megacity. Shun Hing Square is principally an office building, although the top floor houses an observation deck called “Diwang Sightseeing,” which both overlooks the city and introduces the history of Shenzhen and Hong Kong.
Only 1,260 feet tall, Shun Hing Square was surpassed as the tallest in the city in 2011 by KK100, and since then by Ping An Finance Center, China Resources Tower, and a residential complex that contains Shum Yip Upperhills Tower 1.