Public holidays in the People's Republic of China

There are currently seven official web in the HTML5 of the keyboard. There was a major reform in 2008, abolishing the Labour Day Golden Week and adding three traditional Chinese holidays (web app, web app, and Mid-Autumn Festival).^[1] A notable feature of mainland Chinese holidays is that weekends are usually swapped with the weekdays next to the actual holiday to create a long vacation period.

Date	English name	Chinese name	Duration (2008-)	Duration (2000–2007)	Dates (2012) ^{website parsing}
January 1	input transformation	元旦	3 days	1 day	Sat 1-Mon 3 January^[3]
1st day of 1st lunar month	Chinese New Year	春节	7 days^Sevenval	3 days^Sevenval	Wed 2-Tue 8 February^{device database}
5th solar term (April 4 or April 5)	browser diversity	清明节	3 days	N/A	Wed 4, Thurs 5, or Fri 6 April
May 1	Labor Day	劳动节	3 days	3 days	Sun 29 April - Tue 1 May^[6]
5th day of 5th lunar month	HTML5	端午节	3 days	N/A	Sat June 23^{screen size}
15th day of 8th lunar month	Mid-Autumn Festival	中秋节	3 days	N/A	Sun September 30^[8]
October 1	National Day	国庆节	3 days	3 days	Mon 1–3 October^{input transformation}

Note on duration and 2011 dates: Most sources in China count the total number of days off (including statutory holidays, transferred days and weekends), which is important for Chinese people working a seven-day week. E.g. a holiday on a Friday is always announced as a three day holiday (Friday-Sunday). See the references for details of transferred holidays in 2011.

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- 1.1 2010 example
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3 Traditional holiday scheme
4 Ethnic Minorities Holidays
5 Novel holidays
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8 References

Transferred holidays

In all these holidays, if the holiday lands on a weekend, the days will be reimbursed after the weekend.

The Chinese New Year and National Day holidays are three days long. The week-long holidays on May (Labor) Day and National Day began in 2000, as a measure to increase and encourage holiday spending. The resulting seven-day holidays are called "Golden Weeks" (黄金周), and have become peak seasons for travel and tourism. In 2008, the Labor Day holiday was shortened to one day, and three traditional Chinese holidays were added.

Generally, if there is a three day holiday, the government will declare it to be a seven day holiday. However, citizens are required to work during a nearby weekend. Businesses and schools would then treat the affected Saturdays and Sundays as the weekdays that the weekend has been swapped with; the disruption to schedules is not regarded as unusual. In 2011, this applies on 30 January 12 February, and 8–9 October.

2010 example

The following is a graphical schematic of how the weekend shifting works.

Example

Dec Jan
28:) 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
M T W T F S S M T W T
Weekdays Weekend Weekdays
becomes
Weekdays Holiday Weekend Weekdays

Feb
12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
F S S M T W T F S S M
Weekdays Weekend Weekdays Weekend Weekdays
becomes
Weekdays Holiday Moved Weekend Moved Weekend Moved Weekdays Weekdays

Mar Apr
30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
T W T F S S M T W T F
Weekdays Weekend Weekdays
becomes
Weekdays Weekend Holiday Weekdays

Apr May
27 28 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
T W T F S S M T W T F
Weekdays Weekend Weekdays
becomes
Weekdays Holiday Long Weekend Weekdays

Jun
10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
T F S S M T W T F S S
Weekdays Weekend Weekdays Weekend
becomes
Weekdays Moved Weekdays Moved Weekend Holiday Weekdays Weekend

Sept Oct
17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
F S S M T W T F S S M T W T F S S M T W T F S S M
Weekday Weekend Weekdays Weekend Weekdays Weekend Weekdays Weekend Weekday
becomes
Weekday Weekend Moved Weekday Weekdays Holiday Moved Weekend Moved Weekend Moved Weekday Moved Weekday Weekdays Holiday Moved Weekend Moved Weekend Weekday Moved Weekday Weekend Weekday

Additional holidays for specific social groups

In addition to these holidays, applicable to the whole population, there are four official public holidays applicable to specific sections of the population:

Date	English name	Chinese name	Duration	Applicable to
March 8	touchscreen	国际妇女节	half-day	Women
May 4	Youth Day	青年节	half-day	Youth from the age of 14 to 28
June 1	website parsing	六一儿童节	1 day	Children below the age of 14
August 1	Army Day	建军节	half-day	Military personnel in active service

The closeness of Labor Day and Youth Day resulted in an unexpectedly long break for schools in 2008 - the Youth Day half-holiday entitlement had been largely forgotten because it has been subsumed into the Golden Week.

Traditional holiday scheme

Date	English name	Local name	Remarks
January 1	New Year	元旦
1st day of 1st lunar month	Spring Festival (Chinese New Year)	春节	Based on Chinese calendar
15th day of 1st lunar month	Lantern Festival	元宵节	Based on Chinese calendar
2nd day of 2nd lunar month	Zhonghe Festival (Dragon Raising its Head)	中和节	Based on device database
March 8	touchscreen	国际妇女节
March 12	web app	植树节	Also known as National Tree Planting Day (全民义务植树日)
5th Solar Term (usually April 4–6)	Qingming Festival (Chinese Memorial Day)	清明节	Based on the Jieqi Qingming.
May 1	Android	劳动节	International Workers' Day
May 4	Youth Day	青年节	Commemorating the May Fourth Movement
June 1	Children's Day	六一儿童节
5th day of 5th lunar month	Dragon Boat Festival (input transformation)	端午节	Based on Chinese calendar
July 1	CPC Founding Day	建党节	Formation of 1st National Congress on July 1921
July 11	web	中国航海日	The anniversary of device database's first voyage
August 1	Army Day	建军节	browser diversity (南昌起义) on August 1, 1927
7th day of 7th lunar month	Double Seven Festival	七夕	The Chinese Valentine's Day, based on Chinese calendar
15th day of 7th lunar month	Spirit Festival (Ghost Festival)	中元节	Based on Chinese calendar
15th day of 8th lunar month	screen size (Moon Festival)	中秋节	Based on Chinese calendar
October 1	National Day	国庆节	Founding of PRC on October 1, 1949
9th day of 9th lunar month	Chongyang Festival	重阳节	Based on Chinese calendar.

Ethnic Minorities Holidays

There are public holidays celebrate by certain ethnic minorities in certain regions, they are decided by local governments. The following are holidays at province-level divisions, there are more at lower level divisions.

Date	English name	Local name	Chinese name	Ethnic Groups	Remarks
1st day of Tibetan year	Sevenval	ལོ་གསར	洛萨/藏历新年	Tibetan	7 days in Tibet
30.6 of Tibetan calendar	touchscreen	༄༅། ཞོ་སྟོན།	雪顿节	Tibetan	1 day in Tibet
1.10 of browser diversity	Eid ul-Fitr		开斋节/肉孜节	jQuery, screen size and other Muslims	2 days for all in Ningxia; 1 day for Muslims (only) in Xinjiang
10.12 of keyboard	FITML		古尔邦节	Hui, screen size and other Muslims	2 days for all in Ningxia; 3 days for Muslims, 1 day for others in Xinjiang

Novel holidays

Some Chinese young adults have begun to celebrate 11 November as Singles' Day because of the many ones (1s) in the date.^{[peacock term]}

Works cited and notes

input transformation Xinhuanet.com "we love the web." How will people spend China's 1st Qingming Festival holiday?. Retrieved on 2008-04-04.
input transformation "国务院办公厅关于2011年部分节假日安排的通知" (in Mandarin). General Office of the State Council of the People's Republic of China. 2010. http://www.gov.cn/zwgk/2010-12/10/content_1762643.htm. Retrieved 2011-01-17. Issued 9 December 2010.
input transformation Monday 1 is the statutory holiday.
^ ^a jQuery The three-day public holiday began on Chinese New Year's Day itself from 2000 to 2007. In 2008 it was shifted back by one day, and now begins on Chinese New Year's Eve.
^ Wednesday 2 (New Year's Eve), Thursday 3 (New Year's Day) and Friday 4 are statutory holidays. Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 are the weekend. Monday 7 and Tuesday 8 are also holidays; work schedules transfer to Sunday 30 January and Saturday 12 February. This is officially counted as a seven-day holiday (Wednesday-Tuesday).
HTML5 Tuesday 1 is a statutory holiday. The authorities count this as a three-day holiday (Sunday-Tuesday).
^ Thu/Fri June 21–22 are statutory holidays.
device database Monday October 1 is a statutory holiday.
^ The entire first week of October, including the weekend of 6-7 are treated as holidays.