Oriental Pearl TV Tower

Towering high up in the Pudong New Area, the Oriental Pearl TV Tower has been the landmark of Shanghai. The tower is 468 meters high, it is the highest in Asia and the third highest in the world, next to the 553 meters high Toronto Tower in Canada and the 533 meters high TV Tower in Moscow, Russia. The tower consists of 15 spheres of different size at different levels creating an artistic conception of "large and small pearls dropping onto a jade plate". It has become a symbolic architecture in Shanghai.

There is a revolving teahouse and a sightseeing platform, which can accommodate 1600 people at the same time. Here visitor could get a panoramic view of the Bund and Pudong New area. There are 6 elevators within the tower-five installed in the three columns, it only need 40 seconds from the bottom to the highest floor of the tower. The main fuction of the tower is serve for TV and radio. It provide for Shanghai area with more than nine television channels and upwards of ten FM radio channels.