Super skyscrapers now within reach

Shanghai Construction Group, builder of the Shanghai Tower, is now capable of constructing buildings taller than 1,000 meters, sources said.

"Before the building of Shanghai's Jinmao Tower, all the key equipment for high-rise construction was purchased abroad," Gong Jian, chief engineer for Shanghai Construction Group, was quoted as saying by thepaper.cn. "But after undertaking construction of the nation's tallest skyscraper Shanghai Tower, we've made rapid progress in both experience and technology."

According to the company, one of its demonstration projects has recently passed an acceptance check, marking a technological breakthrough for a Chinese company to build high skyscrapers.