A man has been arrested and ordered detained for 15 days for climbing the 88-story Jinmao Tower, China's tallest building, police said Thursday.

Television reports showed Wang Huan, a 27-year-old from northeastern Liaoning province, scaling the 425-meter (1,400 foot) silver spire in Pudong, Shanghai's new financial district, as a crowd gathered to watch.

Footage showed him stopping to wave once he was halfway through the climb, which took more than an hour, according to an officer at a nearby police station, who refused to give her name.

Wang did the climb on Tuesday, but the stunt was not reported until late Wednesday.

Wang was not the first to climb the building without ropes, and police came prepared, laying a cushion below in case he fell. Officers were waiting at the top to arrest him.

Wang was detained for ``infringing public security,'' but was not fined for the stunt, the police officer said.

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