The Chongqing World Trade Center (WTCC, ) is a -tall

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located in the

Jiefangbei CBD Jiefangbei Central Business District (CBD) (), also known as Jiefangbei Business Walking Street (), is the ultra-dense, urbanized downtown core and one of several central business districts of Chongqing, China. It is anchored by a large pedestria ...

area of

Chongqing ChongqingPostal Romanization, Previously romanized as Chungking ();. is a direct-administered municipality in Southwestern China. Chongqing is one of the four direct-administered municipalities under the State Council of the People's Republi ...

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

. The building was completed in 2005 after three years of construction beginning in 2002 and topping out in 2004. The building has 60 floors which can all be accessed by 12

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s. There are also two underground floors used as car park.

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Metro Line 2 has an exit at Linjiangmen Station in the World Trade Center's retail podium. The Chongqing World Trade Center is currently the 54th tallest existing skyscraper in the world when measured up to the

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and is the fourth tallest building in Western China (since being recently eclipsed by several other towers also in Chongqing). The building is tall when not including the spire.

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