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From VERY packed public swimming pools to queues that stretch for miles: Astonishing photos reveal the daily crush in China

  • China covers 3.7 million square miles and is home to a vast 1.3 billion people, the world's largest population
  • Between the late 1970s and January of this year, it controlled its fast rising numbers with a one-child policy
  • A two-child policy has since replaced old laws, so its massive population is set to rise steeply once again 

By ANNABEL FENWICK ELLIOTT FOR MAILONLINE

PUBLISHED: 11:25 EST, 18 September 2016 | UPDATED: 13:25 EST, 18 September 2016

 

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Incredible images of China show how the people endure queues, traffic and other problems on a level unique to the most populous country in the world.

With 1.3billion people, many of the cities are overrun during busy periods, with images revealing the true extent of the growing population, including gridlocked roads packed with static cars queued for miles on end.

The images - taken over the last 16 years - also show a beach with people packed so closely that not a grain of sand is visible as far as they eye can see as citizens dash to the water with rubber rings around them.

Thousands of children, who sit the same exams all over the country at the same time, are seen densely packed together on uniform desks in a vast hall.

This is despite the one-child policy China adopted in the 1970s that it claims has prevented 400million births, but demographers have called the claim into question.

Other images show how homes are tightly packed into what look like small uniform cells in sprawling tower blocks, essential to house the vast population.

As a residential compound opens for sale in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, swarms of keen people line up for the big reveal
 
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As a residential compound opens for sale in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, swarms of keen people line up for the big reveal

Swimmers wrestle with colourful rubber rings at a pool in Daying county, Sichuan Province, this past August, in a situation that looks anything but relaxing
 
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Swimmers wrestle with colourful rubber rings at a pool in Daying county, Sichuan Province, this past August, in a situation that looks anything but relaxing

Students at a university in Wuhan, Hubei province, hang their laundry on lines and railings outside their housing complex
 
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Students at a university in Wuhan, Hubei province, hang their laundry on lines and railings outside their housing complex

More than 1,700 secondary school students in Yichuan, Shaanxi province, sat this exam in 2015, which had to take place in its open-air playground due to lack of space inside
 
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More than 1,700 secondary school students in Yichuan, Shaanxi province, sat this exam in 2015, which had to take place in its open-air playground due to lack of space inside

Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station, which sees an enormous number of travellers and commuters pass through its halls
 
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Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station, which sees an enormous number of travellers and commuters pass through its halls

Scores of people bustle for space af the annual lantern festival in Yuyuan garden, located in China's capital city of Shanghai
 
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Scores of people bustle for space af the annual lantern festival in Yuyuan garden, located in China's capital city of Shanghai

Outside Beijing's International Airport, taxi drivers - one shirtless - line up to await passengers in the sweltering summer heat
 
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Outside Beijing's International Airport, taxi drivers - one shirtless - line up to await passengers in the sweltering summer heat

Amid a sea of wheels and handlebars in Beijing, a woman who has somehow located her own bike prepares to cycle away 
 
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Amid a sea of wheels and handlebars in Beijing, a woman who has somehow located her own bike prepares to cycle away 

At a university is Wuhan, Hubei province, students sleep on mats laid out on an air-conditioned gym floor to escape the heat
 
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At a university is Wuhan, Hubei province, students sleep on mats laid out on an air-conditioned gym floor to escape the heat

Thousands upon thousands of job-seekers collect eagerly around booths at a job fair in Chongqing, southwestern China
 
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Thousands upon thousands of job-seekers collect eagerly around booths at a job fair in Chongqing, southwestern China

This summer in Dalian, Liaoning Province, countless beaches were packed full of sunbathers and crowded with parasols 
 
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This summer in Dalian, Liaoning Province, countless beaches were packed full of sunbathers and crowded with parasols 

In a rather beautiful image, scores of people wander under lantern-dressed trees to celebrate the Chinese New Year in Beijing



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Yes, that is about right. Some of the cities in China tend to be more crowded than others. But these pictures give a good example of some. I have found Hong Kong to be like this, as well as Shanghai and Beijing.
Tokyo can be like this at times, too. You just get used to it. I always get a chuckle when I hear people from the US telling how crowded it was at the beach, State Fair, Fireworks Display, etc.
Most commute venues are this way; completely filled and then some....(trains, subways, buses). Drive your own car? Great, but what do you do with it when you reach your destination? Very few parking spaces/areas. But you do get used to it.

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I could never get use to that.

Makes me claustrophobic just seeing the pictures.



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I can't imagine. I would stay home away from the mass! Ugh.

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They must have am amazing sewage system! And how do they keep a pool clean?
Also looks like a drowning hazard


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One must not look too closely at sewer systems or how clean is the pool in China.... As well as many other Asian countries.....

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So many things you take for granted in the US just do not exist in many other countries or are not as efficient as they are in the US.

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I feel intensely lonely in a huge crowd. It is like a big screaming sign from the Universe that you don't really matter one whit! lol

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Well, do they have a lot of break out of illnesses like E coli? How could any lifeguard police that pool? Or, do they just accept all that as part of Chinese life?

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I could have an anxiety attack just looking at those. I couldn't do it. I'd be a hermit.

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NAOW wrote:

I could have an anxiety attack just looking at those. I couldn't do it. I'd be a hermit.

I'm a very outgoing person and do not mind crowds, but hell to the no.... 



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That beach picture looked like Bethany in July on weekends.

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NAOW wrote:

I could have an anxiety attack just looking at those. I couldn't do it. I'd be a hermit.

 Me, too.  



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Nope. Nope nope nope. Couldn't do it.

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The pool and the ocean water must be a pissfest! Yuck.

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