{"id":897,"date":"2019-10-14T12:26:48","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T04:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/norziana\/?p=897"},"modified":"2019-10-14T12:26:48","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T04:26:48","slug":"china-covers-3-7-million-square-miles-and-is-home-to-a-vast-1-3-billion-people-the-worlds-largest-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/norziana\/2019\/10\/14\/china-covers-3-7-million-square-miles-and-is-home-to-a-vast-1-3-billion-people-the-worlds-largest-population\/","title":{"rendered":"CHINA COVERS 3.7 MILLION SQUARE MILES AND IS HOME TO A VAST 1.3 BILLION PEOPLE, THE WORLD’S LARGEST POPULATION"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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. Between the late 1970s and January of this year, it controlled its fast rising numbers with a one-child policy. One-child policy China adopted in the 1970s that it claims has prevented 400million births, but demographers have called the claim into question.<\/p>\n

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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. A two-child policy has since replaced old laws, so its massive population is set to rise steeply once again.<\/p>\n

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Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station, which sees an enormous number of travellers and commuters pass through its halls.<\/p>\n

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Outside Beijing’s International Airport, taxi drivers – one shirtless – line up to await passengers in the sweltering summer heat.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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Thousands upon thousands of job-seekers collect eagerly around booths at a job fair in Chongqing, southwestern China.<\/p>\n

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This summer in Dalian, Liaoning Province, countless beaches were packed full of sunbathers and crowded with parasols.<\/p>\n

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College students queue up for a job fair in 2014, which roughly 50,000 people attended in Zhengzhou, Henan province.<\/p>\n

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People queue up before viewing the soaring tide near the bank of Qiantang River in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province in 2010.<\/p>\n

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Vehicles are seen on a snaking avenue during the evening rush hour at sunset in Beijing in 2014, surrounded by skyscrapers.<\/p>\n

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Credit: pelikaneh.blogspot.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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