Recently, the Ping An Finance Centre, the second tallest building in the world and the tallest in China, which is general contracted by China Construction First Bureau (Group) Co., Ltd. and has its steel structure construction undertaken by China Construction Steel Structure Co., Ltd., has been constructed up to 88 floors, exceeding 410 meters in height, forming a city skyline with Shenzhen Diwang Building and Kingkey 100.

　　It is understood that the steel structure of the Ping An Finance Centre uses approximately 100,000 tons of steel, four times that of the Shenzhen Diwang Building. Currently, the Ping An Finance Centre is undergoing intense construction, with the fastest construction speed reaching one floor every four days. With the continuous increase in height, the project is expected to exceed 450 meters in late June 2014, surpassing the total height of 441.8 meters of Kingkey 100, becoming a new architectural landmark in Shenzhen.

　　As the tallest building under construction in China, the Ping An Finance Centre has many noteworthy aspects, from structural design to construction technology, with steel structure being an important part. The main structure of the building adopts a "giant frame-core tube-outrigger" structure, with 5 underground floors and 118 above-ground floors, covering an area of 490,000 square meters. Upon completion, it will become the tallest building in China and the second tallest in the world.

　　The outer frame of the Ping An Finance Centre has eight giant steel columns, evenly distributed around the building. These giant columns run from the basement to an elevation of 550 meters above ground, with a total height of 580 meters. They act like eight giant pillars supporting the weight and vertical load of the entire building, serving as a stabilizing element. Each 580-meter-long column is divided into 112 sections for individual manufacturing in the factory and installed section by section at the construction site. The largest cross-section of the column is 5.5 meters long and 2.3 meters wide, with the heaviest single section weighing 115 tons.