The Oriental Pearl TV Tower is located next to the Huangpu River in the Pudong New District of Shanghai. The construction of the tower started in 1991 and was completed four years later in 1995.
The Tower is a towering 1,535 ft high making it the tallest tower in the continent of Asia and the third tallest tower in the world. To give the structure the stability needed, the building starts several stories below ground.
There are three observation levels in the building, the lowest at 295 ft, the next at 863 ft, and the tallest at 1,148 ft. There is a revolving restaurant 876 ft up. The antenna spire that broadcasts the television and radio programs alone is 387 ft.
Large double decker elevators take visitors, a maximum of fifty people per elevator, up the tower at the rate of seven meters per second.
The Tang Dynasty poet Bai Juyi inspired the design of the tower by a line in his poem "Pipa Song." The line is, "大珠小珠落玉盘” which translates approximately to, "like pearls, big and small, falling on a jade plate." The poem is about the music of the Pipa insrument.
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