Feature: People embrace New Year through sports in China

BEIJING, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) -- On New Year's Day, over 2,000 mountain climbing enthusiasts ascended Jianglang Mountain over a 3.5-kilometer route in Jiangshan, east China's Zhejiang Province.

"Climbing the mountain on the New Year's Day is good exercise and has auspicious implications for the new year," said Zhu Qiuzhong, a Jiangshan resident.

During the three-day New Year holiday, various sporting activitie