Many Chinese tech giants, including Tencent and Huawei, have chosen the city to host their headquarters. Shenzhen is a sprawling metropolis in southern China, close to Hong Kong, which has a booming homegrown tech manufacturing scene. The new guidelines for architects, urban planners and developers aimed to "highlight Chinese characteristics" and also banned tacky "copycat" buildings modelled after world landmarks.įive of the world's tallest skyscrapers are located in China, including the world's second-tallest building, the Shanghai Tower, which stands at 632 metres. It is the 18th tallest tower in Shenzhen, according to the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat skyscraper database.Ĭhinese authorities last year banned the construction of skyscrapers taller than 500 metres, adding to height restrictions already enforced in some cities such as Beijing. The building is named after the semiconductor and electronics manufacturer Shenzhen Electronics Group, whose offices are based in the complex. "SEG has been completely evacuated," wrote one Weibo user in a caption to a video of hundreds of people milling about on a wide shopping street near the tower. It was not immediately clear how authorities will handle a dangerous tower of its scale in the heart of a city of over 12 million people.īystander videos published by local media on Weibo showed the skyscraper shaking on its foundations as hundreds of terrified pedestrians ran away outside. The district said in another statement late Tuesday that everyone inside had been safely evacuated and that no further movements of the building had been detected.Įxperts "found no safety abnormalities in the main structure and surrounding environment of the building," and the interior and exterior components of the building appeared undamaged, the district said. "After checking and analysing the data of various earthquake monitoring stations across the city, there was no earthquake in Shenzhen today," the statement said. The building was sealed shut as of 2:40pm, according to local media reports.Ĭompleted in 2000, the tower is home to a major electronics market as well as various offices in the downtown of one of China's fastest-growing cities.Įmergency management officials are investigating what caused the tower in Shenzhen's Futian district to wobble, according to a post on the Twitter-like Weibo platform. The near 300-metre (980 ft) high SEG Plaza inexplicably began to shake at around 1pm, prompting an evacuation of people inside while pedestrians looked on open-mouthed from the streets outside. It also has four basement levels.BEIJING: One of China's tallest skyscrapers was evacuated after it began to shake, sending panicked shoppers scampering to safety in the southern city of Shenzhen. SEG Plaza, which was named after the Shenzhen Electronics Group headquarters, is the 21st tallest building in China and the 72nd tallest in the world. The skyscraper-completed in 2000-is reachable via Huaqiang Road and Huaqiang North stations of the Shenzhen Metro. The comments appeared to be citing unconfirmed reports, which said the construction of nearby subway stations may have contributed to the incident.
"The government is here to investigate," the spokesperson added, without elaborating on the sequence of events.Īccording to Shenzhen's Emergency Management Bureau, monitoring stations picked up no earthquake activity at the time or throughout the day.Ī report of the incident by China's state broadcaster CCTV was flooded with social media comments suggesting the shaking was due to the building having sunk into its foundation. He described the event as an "anomaly" and said the cause was unclear. No injuries were reported during the incident, a spokesperson for SEG Plaza told Chudian News, an online portal under the auspices of Guangdong Radio and Television. The cause of the incident was still being investigated. The building was evacuated "in an orderly fashion: and cleared of people by 1:55 p.m."Ī preliminary investigation of the building found no cracks in the surrounding area and no damage to the structure's exterior wall, its statement added. The Futian district government said staff inside SEG Plaza received reports of shaking at 12:31 p.m. Several videos also captured the antennas above the building as they seemed to be wobbling. Patrons and staff flooded out the tower during the mass panic before some trained their camera phones on the building, which appeared to be swaying from side to side. American Cold War Adviser Asks Vladimir Putin for Russian Citizenship.Future of Hong Kong's Apple Daily in Question After Founder's Assets Frozen.China Planning 'Unprecedented' Tiananmen Memorial Crackdown: Report.
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