'Tallest' big wheel starts rolling
Updated on 05 November 2007
Work has begun on the world's tallest big wheel which will soar 680 feet over the Chinese capital Beijing.
The 99 million (£44 million) Beijing Great Wheel was supposed to be open to tourists at next summer's Olympic Games, but the project has been delayed by a number of design changes and a completion date has not been announced.
The wheel is being built in eastern Beijing's Chaoyang Park. It will have 48 air-conditioned compartments that can carry a total of 1,920 passengers.
It was designed by the same Dutch company that worked on the 443-foot London Eye, which was the largest wheel in the world when it was built in 1999.
China already has a wheel taller than that The 525 foot Star of Nanchang opened in 2006 in southern Jiangxi province.
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