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In China, waiting in line sometimes feels like a competitive sport. The overnight queue at the launch of Apple's iPad 2 pales in comparison to the epic waits for certain over-subscribed state-run services.

Earlier this month, people waited four days and three nights to register for low-income housing in the central city of Xian, while admission to a certain Beijing kindergarten in Changping last year required a week-long, round-the-clock queue, for which people set up camp beds along the pavement.

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But these ordeals are nothing compared to the mother of all traffic jams that stretched 100 kilometers and lasted 11 days on the Beijing-Tibet highway in China last year, capturing the attention of the international media.

From August 14 to August 25, 2010, thousands of cars and trucks—mostly cargo and coal trucks—were bumper to bumper on the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Highway, crawling along at barely more than a kilometer or two a day after road works cut capacity on this main artery between the capital and Inner Mongolia, where large coal reserves have been discovered.