13 Photos Showing How Intensely Crowded China Can Get

China’s got some people. In the late ’70s, China’s population was nearing one billion people. According to the government, something had to be done or the country risked overcrowding and widespread famine, so they instituted a one-child-per-family policy. But going from these photos, you’d never know it. As of 2016, with the current population sitting at 1.4 billion, that policy has now been lifted.

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1. Taxi drivers await passengers at the Beijing Capital International Airport.

2. Laundry hanging outside of this packed student-housing building in Wuhan, Hubei province.

3. A mass of tourists crammed onto the Great Wall outside of Beijing.

4. This exam had to be moved outdoors to accommodate the sheer number of students — over 1,700.