The 2.46-meter-tall Zhao Liang stands beside a woman to illustrate his Titan height ahead of a surgery on his left foot in a hospital in Tianjin Monday April 13, 2009. The 27-year-old man from central China's Henan province, who's 17 cm taller than China's NBA basteball star Yao Ming, plans to apply to be named the tallest in Guinness World Records. Currently world record holder of the tallest is 2.36-meter-tall Bao Xishun from north China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region. [CFP]