Shanghai is sinking, Caijing, a Chinese business magazine, reports. The 420-meter (1378 feet) Jin Mao Tower and the 492-meter (1614 feet) Shanghai World Financial Center will be joined by China's tallest building, the 632-meter (2073 feet) Shanghai Center, when it's completed in 2014.
The Caijing article says Shanghai's ground level has fallen over 2 meters over the past 40 years, due mostly to extraction of ground water.
That "The Jin Mao Tower weighs 300,000 tons, and up to 600,000 tons of steel were used to build the Shanghai World Financial Center" can't help, can it?
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