Fastest elevator in the world

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The fastest elevators in the world are those of the Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre in China: their cars travel at 75.6 km/h (47.0 mph), or 20 metres per second.

The Guangzhou Chow Tai Fook Finance Centre, also called East Tower, is a 530-metre supertall skyscraper. It reached its final height on 10 July 2014 and was completed in October 2016. It is the tallest completed building in Guangzhou.

The tower has 111 floors above ground and five below, housing a shopping mall, offices, apartments and a hotel. Its gross floor area reaches 507,681 square metres, a little over 20% of which belongs to the podium connected to the tower. It stands on a 27,000-square-metre lot along Zhujiang East Road, in Zhujiang New Town, the central business district of Guangzhou.

In a skyscraper of this height, high-speed elevators are what make it possible to reach the upper floors in reasonable time.