China’s new holiday plans
China has officially announced that it is scrapping one of the country’s three “golden week” holidays and introduced three new one-day public holidays.
The new national public holiday plan adds three traditional festivals – Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon-boat Festival and Mid Autumn Festival – to the list of public holidays, Xinhua reported.
To take effect from January 1, the plan also increases the total number of national holidays from 10 to 11.
Each of the three traditional festivals will be a one-day holiday but the Spring Festival remains a three-day public holiday and it will start one day earlier from the eve of the Lunar New Year. The May Day holiday is shortened from three days to one day, while the three-day National Day holiday and one-day New Year holiday remain unchanged.
According to the report, the government was quoted saying that holidays would be scheduled in such a way that they could be combined with the adjacent weekends to form a longer holiday stretch, up to seven days in a row.
The three week-long holidays, dubbed Golden Weeks – were introduced 1999 to boost domestic tourism but it also brought with them infrastructure bottlenecks as millions travelled at the same time.
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