Home to some of the world’s tallest buildings, China is now cracking down on the construction of ‘super skyscrapers’ in smaller cities across the country.
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The country’s strict new laws impose restrictions on the height of buildings based on the population density of different cities.
The latest guidelines limiting the height of super-high buildings is part of a larger crackdown on “vanity projects” in the country. It also aims to reduce China’s energy consumption. Many have argued that in low-density cities massive skyscrapers are merely impractical vanity projects.
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