The same thing happens every year. Even though everyone in China knows the curse of the national May holiday, they still go to the same jam-packed tourist destinations. It’s the same with Chinese New Year, Golden Week (in October) and on the Labour Day weekend. Perhaps they don’t care about getting squashed.
Every year, on social media, television and in the newspapers, there is one photograph that you are bound to see. It shows a popular section of the Great Wall, but all you can see are faces and a mass of people pressed back to chest with the smoggy sky above; you can just about make out the Wall from its jutting sides. The television shows footage of people inching forwards, supposedly “climbing” the Great Wall.