The Chinese city of

Changsha Changsha is the capital of Hunan, China. It is the 15th most populous city in China with a population of 10,513,100, the Central China#Cities with urban area over one million in population, third-most populous city in Central China, and the ...

is home to 85 skyscrapers with a height of over 150 metres (492 feet) as of 2025, 46 of which are taller than 200 m (656 ft). Changsha is the capital and largest city of the Chinese province of

Hunan Hunan is an inland Provinces of China, province in Central China. Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze watershed, it borders the Administrative divisions of China, province-level divisions of Hubei to the north, Jiangxi to the east, Gu ...

, with a population of 10.5 million and an urban population of over 5.9 million. It is a major financial, industrial, and research center in southern China. Few skyscrapers were built in Changsha before 2010, with the most significant being the Lotus Garden China Telecom Building, a 208 m (682 ft) office tower completed in 2003. Beginning from the mid-2010s, Changsha underwent a major high-rise boom, owing to the city's rapidly growing population. It has since seen a massive growth in the number of skyscrapers in the city. The record for the city's tallest building was broken several times between 2014 to 2018, when the current tallest building,

Changsha IFS Tower T1 Changsha IFS Tower is a pair of skyscrapers in Changsha, Hunan, China, with Tower 1 rising 452 meters and Tower 2 rising 315 meters. Construction started in 2013 and completed in 2017. It is the 20th tallest building in the world and the talle ...

, was completed. The office and hotel skyscraper is 452 m (1,483 ft) tall, and is the 20th tallest building in the world. After the construction of its first supertall skyscraper (buildings measuring over 300 metres in height) in 2017, Huachuang International Plaza Tower 1, Changsha added four more supertall skyscrapers in a short span of four years. As of 2025, Changsha has six supertall skyscrapers; it is hence tied with

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, and

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as the city with the ninth most supertall skyscrapers in the world. Many of Changsha's skyscrapers can be found in the central districts of Kaifu and Furong, near the

Xiang River The Xiang River is the chief river of the Lake Dongting drainage system of the middle Yangtze, the largest river in Hunan Province, China. It is the second-largest tributary (after the Min River) in terms of surface runoff, the fifth-largest ...

. Additionally, there is a cluster of tall buildings located in the subdistrict of

Meixihu Meixihu Subdistrict () is a subdistrict of Yuelu District in Changsha, Hunan, China. It was formed from a part of Tianding Township () in April 2007. In 2016, Business Insider featured a photograph of Meixihu Lake sub-district taken in 2015, highli ...

, surrounding Meixi Lake, including the city's newest supertall building, the Meixi Lake Changsha Jinmao Building. Another notable high-rise is J57 Mini Sky City, which was built in 2015 in only 19 days. The developer, Broad Group, had previously planned to build a 838 m (2749 ft) building named Sky City, which would have been the tallest building in the world. The project stalled in 2013, and the site has been repurposed as a fish farm.

Tallest buildings

The following table lists all skyscrapers in Changsha with a height above 200 meters (656 feet).

Tallest under construction or proposed

Under construction

This lists ranks skyscrapers that are under construction in Changsha that are expected to be at least 150 m (492 ft) tall as of 2025, based on standard height measurement. The “Year” column indicates the expected year of completion. Buildings that are on hold are not included.

Timeline of tallest buildings

References

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