Traffic police directed traffic in Handan, North China’s Hebei Province, on Tuesday, the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year. (Photos: VCG)

Police were on duty at the New Century Plaza in Handan on Tuesday, the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year.

Firefighters from the Hongze District Fire Fighting Brigade in Huaian, East China’s Jiangsu Province, attended training on Tuesday.

Doctors held their ground on Monday night, the Chinese New Year Eve, in the brightly lit operating room of the Shijiazhuang Maternity Hospital in Hebei Province.

Police were answering phone calls at the 110 Command Center of Baokang County’s Public Security Bureau in Xiangyang, Central China’s Hubei Province. 110 is the emergency telephone number used to reach police services in China.

Sanitation workers cleaned the streets in Hohhot, the capital of North China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, on Monday.

Border police patrolled border areas in -20 C weather in China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on February 3.

Bus driver Liu Xuebin was on his night shift on Monday in Beijing as the Chinese Lunar New Year arrived. He has been working in the public transport system for 25 years. (Compiled by Zhang Jian)