Shijiazhuang TV Tower is a tall
free standing
lattice tower
A lattice tower or truss tower is a freestanding vertical framework tower. This construction is widely used in transmission towers carrying high voltage electric power lines, in radio masts and towers (a self-radiating tower or as a support for a ...
used for communication built in 1998 in the city of
Shijiazhuang
Shijiazhuang (; ; Mandarin: ), formerly known as Shimen and romanized as Shihkiachwang, is the capital and most populous city of China’s North China's Hebei Province. Administratively a prefecture-level city, it is about southwest of Beijin ...
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
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See also
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List of towers
Several extant building fulfill the engineering definition of a tower: "a tall human structure, always taller than it is wide, for public or regular operational access by humans, but not for living in or office work, and are ''self-supporting' ...
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Lattice tower
A lattice tower or truss tower is a freestanding vertical framework tower. This construction is widely used in transmission towers carrying high voltage electric power lines, in radio masts and towers (a self-radiating tower or as a support for a ...
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List of tallest freestanding steel structures
This is a list of tallest freestanding steel structures in the world past and present. To be a freestanding steel structure it must not be supported by guy wires, the list therefore does not include guyed masts and the main vertical and lateral str ...
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List of tallest buildings in Shijiazhuang
This list of tallest buildings in Shijiazhuang ranks skyscrapers in Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China by height. As of January 2020, the tallest building in Shijiazhuang is Kaiyuan Finance Center, which is high, while Shijiazhuang TV Tower, which stand ...
References
External links
* http://www.gakei.com/sjw/sjwv.htm
* http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=51261&papass=&sort=1
* http://www.skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?b21715
Towers in China
Buildings and structures in Hebei
Lattice towers
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