Celebrating the beginning of 2019 with cold activities
Updated 21:01, 04-Jan-2019
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Chinese people showed their passion for ushering in the New Year with cold activities. A winter swimming competition kicked off in Yibin, central China’s Hubei Province on the very first day of 2019. Over 1,600 swimmers from across the country participated in the competition to swim 1,000 meters in the Yantze River. It is said that the competition was first held in 1974. /VCG Photo

Chinese people showed their passion for ushering in the New Year with cold activities. A winter swimming competition kicked off in Yibin, central China’s Hubei Province on the very first day of 2019. Over 1,600 swimmers from across the country participated in the competition to swim 1,000 meters in the Yantze River. It is said that the competition was first held in 1974. /VCG Photo

Children rode on a plastic board usually pulled by their parents over the frozen Bohai Sea in Dalian, northeast China’s Liaoning Province. /VCG Photo

Children rode on a plastic board usually pulled by their parents over the frozen Bohai Sea in Dalian, northeast China’s Liaoning Province. /VCG Photo

People pedaled ice movers and bicycles on the frozen Kunming Lake at the Summer Palace. /VCG Photo

People pedaled ice movers and bicycles on the frozen Kunming Lake at the Summer Palace. /VCG Photo

Tourists visited ice carvings at an ice-snow park in Altay Prefecture in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region during the three-day-long New Year holiday. /VCG Photo

Tourists visited ice carvings at an ice-snow park in Altay Prefecture in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region during the three-day-long New Year holiday. /VCG Photo

Hikers scaled Hengshan Mountain in central China’s Hunan Province to welcome the new year. /VCG Photo

Hikers scaled Hengshan Mountain in central China’s Hunan Province to welcome the new year. /VCG Photo