China’s population was approaching 1 billion when it established its one-child-per-family policy in the late 1970s. But in the fall of 2015, China announced that the policy would be dropped because of the consequences, including a skewing of the population toward males and a disproportionate representation of elderly people.
By allowing couples to have two children, China is hoping to bring balance back to the country’s demographics. Today the population is about 1.3 billion. Only time will tell how the lifting of the rule will affect the numbers.
Below are some pictures which tell you a lot about the growing population of China.
A record number of 1.8 million applied to attend the entrance exam for post-graduate studies in Anhui province.
More than 1,700 freshmen students took part in a high school exam in Yichaun, in 2015.
Laundry outside student housing in a university in Wuhan.
A woman collects her bicycle from a parking lot outside a sub-way station in Beijing.
People ride escalators and walk down stairs on their way to a subway station in Beijing.
Passengers flood a railway station on the first day of a Mid-Autumn Festival in Wuhan.
Passengers wait to get into the ZhengZhou railway station, the first day of the ‘Golden Week’.
The 50-lane traffic jam in China.
Junior college students line up outside a job fair in ZhengZhou.
Thousands of job seekers visit booths in a job fair outside Chongqing.
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