The "Suzhou Tower" in the movie is based on Guangzhou's "small waist". The physical building is in the center of Guangzhou.
Canton Tower (English: Canton Tower), also known as Guangzhou New TV Tower, nicknamed Xiaomanyao, commonly known as Twisted Chai or Syringe, is located on the ground near Chigang Tower in Yizhou, Haizhu District, Guangzhou City. It has an elevation of 600 meters, 125 meters from the south bank of the Pearl River, and faces Haixinsha Island and Zhujiang New Town across the river. It is a radio tower mainly for sightseeing and tourism, with the functions of radio and television transmission, cultural entertainment and city window. It provided broadcast services for the 16th Asian Games held in Guangzhou in 2010.
Canton Tower is located in the center of Guangzhou, at the intersection of the city's new central axis and the Pearl River landscape axis, across the river from Haixinsha Island and Guangzhou's 21st Century CBD District Zhujiang New Town. Canton Tower is adjacent to the 40-meter-wide Binjiang Road and the Binjiang Green Pedestrian Belt to the north: to the south is the 40-meter-wide Shuangta Road, and to the east and west are the 30-meter-wide Yiyuan East and West Roads respectively.
The hyperboloid design of the lattice shell of the Guangzhou TV Tower conforms to the 1899 patent of Russian engineer V. G. Shukhov. The final design of the tower body is a circular gradient grid structure. Its shape, space and structure are generated by the changes of two upward rotating oval steel shells, one on the base plane and one on the imaginary 450-meter-high plane. Two elliptical twists taper at the waist.
The bottom of the lattice structure is relatively loose, and it is relatively dense upward to the waist. The waist is tightened and fixed, like a braided rope, and then the lattice structure is released upward, supported by gradually tapering tubular structural columns.
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Origin of the name——
The Chinese name is "Canton Tower". Most TV towers in the world are named after places, and the Guangzhou TV Tower also needs to be named after places, because overseas survey data shows that among pure foreigners, their understanding of Chinese cities is mainly Beijing and Shanghai, and they are relatively unfamiliar with Guangzhou, and they often don’t know Guangzhou. Where in China. Therefore, the naming of Guangzhou TV Tower is not only a matter of naming, but should also carry the elements of spreading the concept of "Guangzhou" to the world.
The English name is "Canton Tower". The English name is not "Guangzhou Tower" because the name "Guangzhou" is relatively unfamiliar in the Western context and the pronunciation is awkward. More importantly, in the history of China's opening up to trade, as the origin and starting point of the Maritime Silk Road, Guangzhou's English name known to the world has always been "Canton". "Canton" refers to both Guangzhou and Guangdong. Cantonese, Cantonese, and Cantonese are all "Cantonese" in English.
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