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China's tallest building is a ghost tower with 55 vacant floors

Angus Grigg
Angus GriggNational affairs correspondent

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It's China's tallest building and was supposed to be a symbol of Shanghai's modernity and the city's glittering future as a global financial centre.

Yet more than four years after The Shanghai Tower "topped out" at 632 metres and 2½ years after architects declared it "ready for occupancy", the building remains largely vacant.

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Angus Grigg is an investigative reporter based in Sydney. He has worked as a foreign correpondent in China and Indonesia, and has won two Walkley Awards. Connect with Angus on Twitter. Email Angus at agrigg@afr.com

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