The battle for the tallest building in China continues.
According to China Daily, the property developer behind plans for the world’s tallest skyscraper, to be built in Changsha, Hunan province, said that the project is still awaiting final approval from government authorities.

(picture Xinhua/China Daily)

The statement from Broad Group comes after a Xinhua News Agency report that said the company had not completed all the necessary application procedures before it started construction. The Xinhua report claimed the company was acting illegally.
According to Broad Group’s website, the tower will have 4,450 apartments between the 16th and 170th floors and will include offices, a hotel, kindergarten, school, hospital, shops, gym and restaurants. The cost of construction is now estimated at 9 billion yuan – the figure has nearly doubled since the first media announcements.
By the end of 2012, China had 10 of the world’s 20 tallest skyscrapers, and more are planned, some aimed at grabbing the title of China’s tallest, all according to China Daily.
In 2012 after Wuhan said it would add 30 m to a planned 606 m building in order to make it the tallest, the developer of a skyscraper in Shenzhen announced that it would build a 660 m tower. The record was soon trumped by another developer, which said it had started to select the location for a 700 m skyscraper in Qingdao.The higher the better? Don’t count on me to live in one of those.