A young man from Qingdao, East China's Shandong Province, has set a new Guinness World Record for building a 50-story house of cards in just five hours and four minutes. Photo: CCTV News

A young man from Qingdao, East China's Shandong Province, has set a new Guinness World Record for building a 50-story house of cards in just five hours and four minutes.

Tian Rui, challenger for the Guinness World Record for "building the highest house of cards in 12 hours," livestreamed the building process on multiple online platforms.

After five hours and four minutes, the house of cards built by Tian was finally fixed at 50 floors and 3.37 meters high, and was certified as the Guinness World Record for this project.

"I would have been devastated if one of the cards had gone down. The young man's patience and endurance are really extraordinary," said a netizen on the Chinese social media Sina Weibo.