West Pearl Tower (Chinese: 四川广播电视塔) is a tower built of reinforced concrete located in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China. At 339 m (1,112.2 ft) high, the West Pearl Tower is the fourth tallest tower in China. West Pearl Tower started construction in 1992, but constructions was halted later in the year due to budgeting problems. Constructions restarted in 1998 and it was completed in 2004. It was mainly built to help TV Networks across Chengdu, but since then it has expanded to become a revolving restaurant with a 360 degree view of the city and as a recreational/commercial mall for Chengdu.
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“One perceives that again and again she has destroyed her life when it was forming into shapes of happiness because of her loyalty to the early misery, her conviction that that has the sanction of ultimate reality, and that beside it all other things are trivial.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)
“I know of the leafy paths that the witches take
Who come with their crowns of pearl and their spindles of wool,
And their secret smile, out of the depths of the lake....”
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“The tower nearest the water gets the moonlight first.”
—Chinese proverb.