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[CN]
中国面积3700平方英里,住着13亿的庞大人口,世界排名第一。20世纪70年代至今年的1月份,中国实施一胎政策控制快速增长的人口数量。(如今)二胎政策又替代了过去的法律,中国的大基数人口又将再度扶摇直上。
As a residential compound opens for sale in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, swarms of keen people line up for the big reveal[CN]
浙江杭州的住宅小区开售,大群的热衷人士排起长队等待开盘。
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[CN]
上图貌似人们是在休息,其实是去年8月份在四川大英县的游泳池里,游泳者们在和五颜六色的橡胶游泳圈“作斗争”。
Students at a university in Wuhan, Hubei province, hang their laundry on lines and railings outside their housing complex[CN]
河北武汉的高中学生把衣物晾在天线上,宿舍栏杆外也挂出不少。
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[CN]
在陕西宜川,超过1700名考生参加2015年升学考试,由于室内不够位置,学生移至露天操场进行考试。
Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station, which sees an enormous number of travellers and commuters pass through its halls[CN]
上海虹桥火车站,可见游客熙熙攘攘,乘客穿梭往来。
Scores of people bustle for space af the annual lantern festival in Yuyuan garden, located in China's city of Shanghai[CN]
中国上海豫园一年一度的灯笼节,大批民众寻一位置而难得。
Outside Beijing's International Airport, taxi drivers - one shirtless - line up to await passengers in the sweltering summer heat[CN]
北京国际机场外的出租车司机,个个赤膊上阵 – 顶着炎炎夏日排着长队等待乘客。
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
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
In a rather beautiful image, scores of people wander under lantern-dressed trees to celebrate the Chinese New Year in Beijing
The roomy Hong Qiao Train station, lined with brightly lit adverts, which gets particularly busy around national holidays
College students queue up for a job fair in 2014, which roughly 50,000 people attended in Zhengzhou, Henan province
Visitors congregate under umbrellas at Shanghai's China Pavilion - the most expensive in the world - on a rainy day in 2010
Visitors participate in the annual water-splashing festival to mark the New Year of the Dai minority in Xishuang Banna, Yunnan province in 2013
People queue up before viewing the soaring tide near the bank of Qiantang River in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province in 2010
Vehicles are seen on a snaking avenue during the evening rush hour at sunset in Beijing in 2014, surrounded by skyscrapers
Heaving crowds line the Bund waterfront area in central Shanghai, always busy both during the day (left) and at night (right)
Countless shoppers gather under kaleidascopic neon lights along Shanghai's bustling Nanjing Road in 2001, 15 years ago
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.
Chinese women 'give you better 'great experience it was for me[CN]
中国女人会满足你滴,那经验,超赞啊。
Look at the comments of the i-g-n-o-r-a-n-t on here! Rhetoric wrapped in orientalism and racer comments full of entitlement and from a view-port of exceptionalism! It would be 'OK' if all of these traits were being exhibited by a people who are capable! however, coming from those who cant even manufacture a CANDLE make it laughable if not ironic! What you see ppl is the future of humanity - your tomorrow and your leaders! The die is already cast if you haven't realized it - wake up and smell the coffee! You criticize the hand that feeds you! facts speak for themselves - from loans for your mortgages, to the technology, know how and money to power your electricity, to everyday items which you glorify and commoditize are produced by this future of humanity! So think! keep your mouths shut and hold your heads in shame - the truth hurts![CN]
看看这些无知的人的评论吧。 对东方文化极尽辞藻,竞相指点权利问题,还将中国当做一个例外!如果这些话是一个靠得住的人身上有的特质那倒罢了,但是说这些话的人连根蜡烛都做不出来,这不可笑吗,不讽刺吗?你在这些人身上看到的是人类的未来 – 你的明天,你的领导!木已成舟,信不信由你。醒醒吧,问问你的咖啡。你批评的人用双手抚养着你。拿事实说话 – 你们的房屋抵押贷款,还有技术你懂的,加上金钱来给你们提供电力,你们赞美和买卖的每一件东西,都是这群人类的未来的人们生产的!所以认真想想吧!闭上你的嘴巴,抱头惭愧吧 – 事实就是这么伤人!
The U S should clean out the unwanted animal shelters and export them to China feed the poor people everybody wins[CN]
美国就该把不要的动物住所清理了,卖到中国养活穷人,这样对大家都好。
The woman one pic up from the bottom is hot. I think older Chinese women are very attractive![CN]
那张拍到屁股的的女人很性感啊。我认为,中国老一点的女人更有韵味。
China is one of the most switched on, prosperous and highly educated countries in the world, we could learn a lot from them. Fifty years from now they will be the top dogs, military,economically and culturally[CN]
中国是世上最时尚、最繁荣受教育程度最高的国家,我们可以从他们身上学到很多。50年后他们会成为最强大的国家,无论是军事上,经济上还是文化上。
If they dyed their hair blonde, they would be accused of wanting to be white. If they admit to wanting to be white, then people will accuse them of being ashamed of themselves. If they don't want to be blonde, they are accused of not wanting to mix with other races.[CN]
如果头发染成金铜色,他们就会被指责“想要成为白人”。如果他们承认,人们又会指责他们崇洋媚外。如果不染成金铜色,又被指责,不能融入其他人种当中。
Chinese women are outnumbered by Chinese men and have hundreds of millions to choose from and most of them still prefer us white men![CN]
中国男人比中国女人多那么多,有上亿的男人可选,但是她们还是想嫁个白人。