Timeline of Tallest Buildings
This is a list of buildings that in the past held the title of tallest building in Shenzhen. Despite the city's highrise building boom, there are only four buildings listed below.
| Name | Street address | Years as tallest | Height |
Floors | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| International Foreign Trade Center | — | 1985—1987 | 160 / 525 | 50 | |
| Shenzhen Development Center | — | 1987—1996 | 165 / 542 | 43 | |
| Shun Hing Square | 5002 Shen Nan Road East | 1996—2011 | 384 / 1,260 | 69 | |
| Kingkey 100 | — | 2011—present | 439 / 1,440 | 100 |
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