On January 1, 2025, many countries around the world staged New Year's Eve fireworks shows to welcome the New Year. People from all over the world celebrated the arrival of the New Year with fireworks performances, light shows and other methods. At 8 o'clock Beijing time, London, England, ushered in 2025. Big Ben rang the New Year's bell and fireworks bloomed brilliantly over the "London Eye" Ferris wheel. The largest fireworks show in the Southern Hemisphere explodes in Sydney, Australia.
The Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in Dubai World, United Arab Emirates, held a traditional New Year fireworks light show, with "Happy New Year" in Arabic, English and Chinese displayed on the floor.
The Burj Khalifa was formerly known as the Burj Khalifa, also known as the Dubai Tower or the Burj Khalifa.
The Burj Khalifa is 828 meters high, with a total of 162 floors and a cost of US$1.5 billion. The construction of the building itself costs at least US$1 billion, not including the construction costs of large shopping malls, lakes and shorter towers inside.
The Burj Khalifa uses a total of 330,000 cubic meters of concrete, 62,000 tons of reinforced steel bars, and 142,000 square meters of glass. In order to build the Burj Khalifa, a total of about 4,000 workers and 100 cranes were used to pump concrete vertically over 606 meters, breaking the 492-meter record during the construction of the Shanghai World Financial Center.
There are 56 lifts in the building with a maximum speed of 17.4 meters per second. There is also a double-decker sightseeing lift that can carry up to 42 people at a time.
Burj Khalifa was built in 2004.On the evening of January 4, 2010 local time,The Ruler of Dubai, Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, unveiled the curtain on the "Burj Khalifa" monument, known as "the world's tallest building", announcing the official completion of the building and renaming it "Burj Khalifa".