Warmest New Year's Day in Beijing for six decades

Beijing's warmest New Year's Day in decades saw people flood outdoors on Wednesday, the first day of 2014.

According to the Beijing meteorological bureau, the capital's temperature was 12.8 C at about 2 pm on Wednesday, the warmest since 1951.

There have only been five times since 1951 that Beijing's first winter snowfall took place in the new year.