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The CMG Headquarters is a 234-metre (768 ft), 51- story skyscraper on East Third Ring Road , Guanghua Road in the Beijing Central Business District (CBD). The tower serves as headquarters for China Media Group (CMG) that was formerly at the China Central Television Building located at 11 Fuxin Road some 15 km (9.3 mi) to the west. Groundbreaking took place on 1 June 2004 and the building's facade was completed in January 2008. After the construction was delayed by a fire which in February 2009 engulfed the adjacent Television Cultural Center , the headquarters was completed in May 2012. The CCTV Headquarters won the 2013 Best Tall Building Worldwide from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat . Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren of OMA were the architects in charge for the building, while Cecil Balmond at Arup provided the complex engineering design. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMG_Headquarters      

The Shanghai World Financial Center is a supertall skyscraper located in the Pudong district of Shanghai , China . It was designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox and developed by the Mori Building Company , with Leslie E. Robertson Associates as its structural engineer and China State Construction Engineering Corp and Shanghai Construction (Group) General Co. as its main contractor. It is a mixed-use skyscraper, consisting of offices, hotels, conference rooms, observation decks, and ground-floor shopping malls. Park Hyatt Shanghai is the tower's hotel component, comprising 174 rooms and suites occupying the 79th to the 93rd floors, which at the time of completion was the highest hotel in the world. It is now the third-highest hotel in the world after the Ritz-Carlton, Hong Kong , which occupies floors 102 to 108 of the International Commerce Centre . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_World_Financial_Center

After the fall of the Qin dynasty in 207 BC came the rise of the Han dynasty in 202 BC. During the Han dynasty, new style of armour such as scale corselet made of leather and/or iron were adopted. During this time period, the primary metal used in armour was iron, and occasionally steel. Early Han soldiers would have used armour and weapons produced during the Qin era. The Han army had armour standardized to meet the need. Armour used by the Han included coats of plates; 两当铠 (liang-tang, or "double-faced" armour); and lamellar cuirases made of metal or leather that was suspended over the shoulders by cords. This armour was used by both the infantry and the cavalry. A much heavier and more expensive version, consisting of metal plates laced together, was worn by officers. Zhou Yafu ( simplified Chinese : 周亚夫; traditional Chinese : 周亞夫; pinyin : Zhōu Yǎfū) (died 143 BC) was a renowned Han Dynasty general who put down the Rebellion of the Seven States , but whose honesty ...