20 photos that show how insanely crowded China has become
Reuters/StringerTourists gather on the Great Wall outside Beijing.
China's population was approaching 1 billion when it enforced a one-child-per-family policy in the late 1970s. Exceptions were only made in the cases of ethnic minorities and rural couples, who were sometimes allowed two children.
The law is not the most popular, and there have been some unintended consequences, including a skewing of the population towards males and a disproportionate representation of elderly people.
Still, many argue that it has been important for the country, as it has helped reduce famine and limited a population that was rapidly growing.
With the policy in place for over 35 years, the current population still rests at around 1.4 billion.
These photos from Reuters are good examples of how crowded the country has become.
(Captions by Reuters and Jack Sommer)
Examinees walk into the entrance of a classroom building to take part in a three-day entrance exam for postgraduate studies in Hefei, Anhui province. A record 1.8 million people applied to attend this exam in 2013.
Students take an exam at a high school's open-air playground in Yichuan, Shaanxi province. More than 1,700 freshmen students took part in the exam in 2015, which the school moved outside because of insufficient indoor space.
Laundry hangs outside student housing at a university in Wuhan, Hubei province.
Parents sleep on mats laid out on a gymnasium floor inside a university campus in Wuhan.
A woman collects her bicycle from a parking lot outside of a subway station in Beijing.
People ride escalators and walk down the stairs on their way to a subway platform during rush hour in Beijing.
Passengers wait to get into the crowded Zhengzhou Railway Station on the first day of "the Golden Week," a holiday that celebrates the founding of the People's Republic of China. According to the China Tourism Academy, a total of 480 million trips were estimated to be made within those seven days.
Zhengzhou, Henan province
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