This Day, That Year: July 22

Editor's note: This year marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of New China.

On July 22, 1989, the Capital Mansion, then the tallest building in Beijing, was completed after three years under construction, as seen in the item from China Daily.

Since the 1991 opening of the 180-meter-high building, the city's skyscraper record has been broken several times.

Last year, China Zun was completed. It rises to 528 meters. It is the tallest in the capital, with its height surpassing that of China World Trade Center Tower 3 by 190 meters.

The booming construction of super-tall buildings, exceeding 200 meters high, has transformed the skylines of other Chinese cities as well.

In 2015, the Ping An International Finance Center, with a height of nearly 600 meters, dominated the Shenzhen skyline in Guangdong province.

The Goldin Finance 117 is the tallest building in Tianjin at a height of 597 meters. It is the third-tallest in China.

Construction of the 632-meter high Shanghai Tower, the second-tallest building in the world after the 828-meter Burj Khalifa in Dubai, was completed in late 2015.

It will not hold the title for long. Zhongnan Center in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, is planned to be more than 700 meters high, according to local urban planning department.

As of 2017, China is home to more than 1,400 skyscrapers above 150 meters of which 48 are super-tall buildings.

China will dominate global super-tall building development. Its number of such buildings－more than 200 meters high and with more than 40 stories－will account for 70 percent of the world's total, according to a report by realty service provider CBRE Inc.

China will be home to 21 of the world's tallest 50 skyscrapers by 2020, according to the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat in Chicago, a nonprofit organization that focuses on the planning, design, construction and operation of tall buildings.