xysoom: Video shows Shanghai Tower spring massive leak

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Video shows Shanghai Tower spring massive leak


Videos surfaced on Monday (July 6) after tenants from the 9th to 60th floors of Shanghai Tower, the tallest building in China, found themselves drenched with leaking water.To get more shanghai news, you can visit shine news official website.

According to local Chinese media reports, the leaks inside the massive tower started on Monday. The water leaks were so severe that many videos show "rain" and "waterfalls" dropping down from the ceilings, ruining office equipment and electronic devices.

On its official Weibo page, Shanghai Tower stated that the water leaks were caused by an equipment failure within the building. It claimed that after the failure occurred, the building staff immediately began emergency repairs.

The tower claimed that the problem has been fixed, but in order to ensure the safety of its operations, a comprehensive inspection will be carried out on equipment on the floor where the leak originated. It stated that for the sake of safety, some elevators were shut down temporarily, which affected operations for some tenants.

However, many Chinese netizens were swift to criticize what they consider a sign of typically shoddy workmanship frequently witnessed across the land:

"Awesome, my tofu dregs.""Local reports say the leakage has nothing to do with the rainstorms. Then I wonder where all the water came from?"

"With Water Curtain Cave, it's time for the Monkey King to appear.""This is what you get with tofu-dreg projects."

Shanghai Tower is 121 stories tall and climbs to a height of 632 meters, making it the tallest building in China and the second-tallest in the world, behind only the 828-meter tall Burj Khalifa. The building cost a cool 14.8 billion Chinese yuan (US$2.1 billion) to build and was completed in 2014.
An exhibition featuring cultural relics of Chinese maritime firearms opened at the China Maritime Museum in Shanghai on Sunday.
More than 130 pieces or sets of items collected by the museum were displayed at the event to mark the 10th anniversary of the opening of the national maritime museum.
Some of the precious relics on display were from the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) and the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) and some were showcased to the public for the first time, according to Li Xuemao, curator of the exhibition.
The special exhibition consists of five parts to show the historical features of China's maritime firearms and the development of the nation's maritime science and technology, according to the museum.