CCTV News: Every year as the Spring Festival approaches, New Year’s coins and New Year’s bills are a special New Year’s goods for those who like to collect them. Starting from January 3, the 2025 New Year’s Day commemorative coins and commemorative banknotes will be exchanged. Follow the reporter to go to Shanghai to see the hot scenes.

At 8:30 in the morning, the Huancheng Road Branch of Jiading opened the door half an hour earlier. In an instant, more than 20 citizens who had been waiting for a long time lined up and began to exchange in an orderly manner. Mr. Liu is one of the lucky ones who made a successful appointment and successfully exchanged 60 "snake coins" and 40 "snake coins".

Many bank exchange outlets in Songjiang, Minhang and other places have also opened their doors early to meet people's redemption needs.

It is understood that the face value of the Year of the Snake commemorative coins issued this time is 10 yuan, and the face value of the commemorative banknotes is 20 yuan, and 100 million pieces are issued nationwide, respectively. The reservation redemption period is from January 3 to January 9.

Taiyuan, Shanxi: Laba is coming and the fragrance of vinegar is coming. Citizens line up to buy

Laba Festival is coming soon. In Taiyuan, Shanxi, locals have the custom of pickling "Laba garlic" with aged vinegar. Queueing to fight vinegar has become a unique scenery on the local streets.

As the twelfth lunar month begins, the atmosphere of the Spring Festival becomes increasingly strong. January 7th is the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. In order to welcome the arrival of Laba, many citizens came to a time-honored vinegar shop in Taiyuan. Although the weather was cold, everyone still insisted on queuing for vinegar, and the scene was very lively.

Labay vinegar is a traditional custom of Taiyuan citizens and one of the ways for everyone to welcome the New Year in the twelfth lunar month. Most citizens who come to fight jealousy use their own containers to pack, mainly large-capacity barrels and pots.

Liu Xiaojing, a staff member of a vinegar industry company in Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, said: "The old tradition is passed down. The people are more keen on Sanda famous vinegar and think this bite of hot vinegar is particularly delicious."

Daqing, Heilongjiang: The natural ice rink is very popular

In Daqing City, Heilongjiang, the local area makes full use of natural conditions to build ice and snow sports places, attracting many tourists to check in.

At the beginning of the new year, there was a lot of laughter on the ice surface of Land Lake in the center of Daqing. In this ice and snow park with an area of ​​500,000 square meters, tourists and citizens enjoy the fun of special ice and snow recreation projects such as large slides, ice sledges, and ice drifts. Since its opening at the end of last year, the average daily number of tourists here has been received by more than 30,000.

This ice and snow season, Daqing City makes full use of more than 50 river and lake resources and more than 90 scenic spots and scenic spot resources to create colorful ice and snow cultural and tourism activities such as ice and snow carnivals and ice dragon boat races, continue to improve the construction of tourism infrastructure, and promote the upgrading of tourism service quality.