people mountain people sea en · NOUN
Etymology
Calque of Chinese 人山人海 (rénshānrénhǎi).
Meanings
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A large and packed crowd of people.
However, this rule seems to have been overturned in the PRC with its "people mountain people sea" strategy that played an important role in the successful exploration of mining resources, assisted by advanced technologies and heavy investments (see fig 1.5 for another example of this strategy in action).
2020 October 26, Li Hou, Building for Oil: Daqing and the Formation of the Chinese Socialist State, BRILL, →ISBN, page 19:Jenny was lost among people mountain people sea. I don't blame her in such a gunvernment celebration.
2019, Changming Yuan, “Trade Deficit: Chinese Exported into English”, in T. R. Mwanaka, editor, Nationalism: (mis)understanding Donald Trump's Capitalism, Racism, Global Politics, International Trade and Media Wars, volume 2, →ISBN:I didn't want to be part of Shanghai. I preferred to be an obscure visitor in Shanghai with nobody noticing me. I was fascinated by its noise and the people mountain, people sea.
2023 May 4, Wenyan Lu, The Funeral Cryer, Atlantic Books, →ISBN: