Qualla: Zhongyuan Tower https://qualla.com/zhongyuan-tower en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:38 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/w/w/0/v/zhongyuan-tower-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Zhongyuan Tower https://qualla.com/zhongyuan-tower Zhongyuan Tower: Introduction https://qualla.com/zhongyuan-tower/ Photo credit Windmemories, CC BY-SA 4.0. From the air, Zhongyuan Tower looks like a five-petaled plum blossom -- the provincial flower of Henan. From the ground, it resembles an ancient set of chime bells frozen in upward flight. From an engineer's perspective, it is 22,000 tons of steel, 850,000 high-strength bolts, and a hyperbolic parabolic surface treated with fluorocarbon paint to resist Zhengzhou's weather. At 388 meters total -- 268 meters of tower plus a 120-meter antenna -- it is the tallest all-steel tower on Earth. Tokyo's Skytree stands taller overall but uses a concrete-steel hybrid structure; Zhongyuan Tower holds the record among towers built entirely of steel.

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/w/0/v/zhongyuan-tower-wp/ww0v-zhongyuan-tower-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Zhongyuan Tower: Thirteen Myths in Relief https://qualla.com/zhongyuan-tower/ Photo credit Meritguy, CC BY-SA 3.0. The tower's exterior walls are decorated with thirteen relief sculptures depicting the foundational myths of Chinese civilization, and they read like a syllabus for a course on creation itself. Pangu creates the world. Nuwa fashions mankind from clay. Fuxi draws the Bagua, the ei...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/w/0/v/zhongyuan-tower-wp/ww0v-zhongyuan-tower-thirteen-myths-in-relief.mp3 0:06 2 full Zhongyuan Tower: The World's Largest Panoramic Painting https://qualla.com/zhongyuan-tower/ Photo credit Windmemories, CC BY-SA 4.0. On the third and fourth floors of the tower, visitors encounter something unexpected: a panoramic painting called "Jinxiu Zhongyuan" -- Splendid Central Plains -- that wraps around the interior in a continuous 360-degree display. On April 26, 2011, Guinness World Records certifie...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/w/0/v/zhongyuan-tower-wp/ww0v-zhongyuan-tower-the-worlds-largest-panoramic-painting.mp3 0:06 3 full Zhongyuan Tower: Dining at 255 Meters https://qualla.com/zhongyuan-tower/ Photo credit Windmemories, CC BY-SA 4.0. The tower's upper floors serve purposes beyond broadcasting. The 98th floor, at 255 meters above ground, houses a revolving restaurant with 780 square meters of dining space. Above it, the 101st floor -- 265 meters up, with 940 square meters of operating space -- offers high-alti...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/w/0/v/zhongyuan-tower-wp/ww0v-zhongyuan-tower-dining-at-255-meters.mp3 0:06 4 full Zhongyuan Tower: Steel Plum Blossom https://qualla.com/zhongyuan-tower/ Photo credit Chk2011, CC BY-SA 3.0. Construction began in March 2007 after Tongji University's architectural design institute produced the final plans, and the tower was completed in October 2009. In 2012, it received the Zhan Tianyou Civil Engineering Prize -- named for the pioneering Chinese railway engineer -- f...

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