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Jin Mao Tower
Huanxi 1st Avenue, Shanghai
1999
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The 7th tallest buiding in the world and named as the "Golden prosperity building", it sits across the street from the Shanghai World Finance Center; its tall cousin.

On February 18, 2001 Han Qizhi, a 31-year old shoe salesman from Anhui province "struck by a rash impulse", climbed the building barehanded. Well-known French urban climber Alain "Spiderman" Robert had earlier been trying to convince Chinese authorities to let him climb the structure. Referring to the tower's scaffold-like cladding, Robert commented that his six-year-old son could climb the building and that he himself could do it using only one arm. He faced the possibility of 15 days in a Chinese jail for an unauthorized attempt. He finally scaled the building in 2007. He was arrested and jailed for 5 days before being expelled from China.

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