(CNSPHOTO)

Adili Wuxor, a Uygur wire-walking performer, created a new world record for tightrope walking on July 2 after walking on a 3.3-cm tightrope 60 meters over the National Stadium in Beijing, also known as the Bird's Nest, for 198 hours and 23 minutes in 60 successive days. He lived in a cabin on the roof of the stadium during the challenge.

The Shanghai-based record-keeping organization Great World DSJJNS has recognized Adili's achievement.

Adili, 39, was born in a Uygur family with a 430-year history of acrobatics in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. He began his tightrope walking career at 8. In 2002, Adili completed a remarkable feat in suburban Beijing by staying on a wire for 25 days and tightrope walking for a total of 123 hours and 48 minutes, an accomplishment recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the greatest living-on-wire feat in history.

Adili said he planned to conduct a cross-Taiwan-Straits tightrope walking in October 2011. The distance of the prospective crossing, between Gulangyu Island off the southern mainland city of Xiamen and the Lesser Kinmen Island of Taiwan, is 5,400 meters.