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Chinese cities are at least ten million people in population. The chinese are really into exercising in the morning. They go out in big groups and they dance together or they do kung fu, swimming, or play volleyball. Qingdao Beach #1, where I took these pictures, is where the locals go to exercise. Before work they go swimming at the beach. They love these big groups and exercising together, I think it’s a leftover from communism. They like to go swimming, have a chat, and then they all go for breakfast in different groups. That’s fun for them. They are really social animals.We went up to Qingdao for a week and went to the beach every morning at 5:30am, and the beach was always packed. The swimmers arrive super early, so by the time we would show up, there were already two hundred people on the beach, with more coming. The first day there I felt like I was on Mars. I expected two hundred swimmers and five people wearing masks, but it turned out to be the opposite. It was two hundred swimmers and only five people not wearing a mask. It was crazy, the choices we had were overwhelming.60