The ''Yangzhong Puffer Fish,'' or the "Puffer Fish Tower" is a notable 295-foot-long

bronze Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12–12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (including aluminium, manganese, nickel, or zinc) and sometimes non-metals, such as phosphorus, or metalloids suc ...

statue in the shape of the

puffer fish Tetraodontidae is a family of primarily marine and estuarine fish of the order Tetraodontiformes. The family includes many familiar species variously called pufferfish, puffers, balloonfish, blowfish, blowies, bubblefish, globefish, swellfish ...

. Weighing 2,300 tons and reportedly costing $11 million, this statue sits on the banks of the

Yangtze River The Yangtze or Yangzi ( or ; ) is the longest river in Asia, the third-longest in the world, and the longest in the world to flow entirely within one country. It rises at Jari Hill in the Tanggula Mountains (Tibetan Plateau) and flows ...

in the Jiangsu Province of China. Work on this project was completed in 2013. The ''Yangzhong Puffer Fish'' sculpture is the largest steel-framework sculpture in China, and perhaps the entire world.

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