15 photos from China that prove it's very crowded (16 photos)

China is the most populous country in the world, even though the population declined for the first time in sixty years as of 2023. In this post you will see photographs that clearly demonstrate that China is very crowded.





1. Test takers enter the classroom to take part in a three-day graduate school entrance exam in Hefei, Anhui Province. A record 1.8 million people applied for the exam



2. Students take an exam at the outdoor playground of a middle school in Yichuan, Shaanxi Province. More than 1,700 freshmen took part in the exam, which the school moved outside due to lack of indoor space.





3. A woman picks up her bicycle from a parking lot near a subway station in Beijing.



4. Passengers wait to enter a crowded Zhengzhou railway station on the first day of Golden Week, a holiday marking the founding of the People's Republic of China.



5. Junior college students line up at a career fair. Around 50,000 people attended this single job fair in Zhengzhou, Henan Province



6. Thousands of job seekers visit booths at a job fair in Chongqing



7. Beijing Market



8. Walk at the Chinese New Year Temple Fair in Beijing



9. Annual New Year's Water Splash Festival in Xishuang Banna, Yunnan Province



10. Worshipers wait at the entrance to the Guiyuan Buddhist Temple in Wuhan to burn offerings on the fifth day of the Chinese Lunar New Year.



11. Visitors queue to watch the rushing tide along the bank of the Qiantang River in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province.



12. Shoppers crowd under bright neon lights on bustling Nanjing Road in Shanghai.



13. People on the beach in Dalian, Liaoning province, escaping the summer heat



14. Vehicles piled up at a highway intersection in Xiamen



15. Passengers line up to board a train at the waiting room of Hankou Railway Station in Wuhan.