(DALIANNEWS)- We have said goodbye to the past year of 2019 and welcome the year of 2020! Thousands of local residents have celebrated the New Year with mountain climbing, highrise climbing, winter swimming and night run. Let's take a view of those amazing activities!

The 15th Dalian Winter Swimming Activity and China Winter Swimming 2020 (Dalian Station) are held at the bathing beach of Fujiazhuang in Dalian, a port city of Northeastern China's Liaoning Province, January 1, 2020. More than one thousand winter swimming lovers of 30 local teams from Dalian Winter Swimming Association joined in the event.  It was the first time for Yuan Bingli, a 28-year-old winter swimming lover, to take part in the winter swimming activity on the New Year day. "I hope that I will be successful in work and my family will be in good health in the new year of 2020.", said Yuan Bingli. Most winter swimming lovers are middle-aged and elderly people and among them, the oldest participant is 90 years old.

Local residents wave their hands to greet the New Year during the climbing avtivity in Dalian, a port city of Northeastern China's Liaoning Province, January 1, 2020. Totally 3,000 local residents took part in a climbing activity at Jinlongsi Park in Dalian on the first day of the New Year. They climbed 999 stairs to enjoy the first sunshine of the New Year, watch the mountains and the sea, and pray for good luck.

Local residents take part in Dalian International Highrise Climbing Contest in Dalian, a port city of Northeastern China's Liaoning Province, January 1, 2020, so as to celebrate the New Year. The event has been successfully held for 16 years and becomes a famous contest in China especially in northeastern area. The event this year attracted more than 500 athletes from home and abroad, including ordinary residents and the disabled sport lovers, who are mostly aged  from 12 to 70. 

Picture taken on January 1, 2020 shows that local resisdents join in a night run activity in Dalian, a port city of Northeastern China's Liaoning Province, using the fitness activity to celebrate the New Year.