Why should we spend our holidays in China?

China's holiday adjustment is a policy arrangement to avoid holiday fragmentation.

China has laws and regulations on holiday arrangements. According to the National Statutory Holidays and Remembrances revised in 20 13, all citizens in China have seven holidays, of which * * * holidays 1 1 day. Among them, the Spring Festival lasts for 3 days (the first day, the second day and the third day of the first lunar month), the National Day lasts for 3 days (1 October 2 and 3 1), and New Year's Day, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Labor Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival each1day. On this basis, a unified holiday system is implemented throughout the country, and the General Office of the State Council announces holiday arrangements to the public in advance every year.

Because most holidays in China follow the traditional lunar calendar, not only the corresponding Gregorian calendar dates change every year, but also there is no connection with the weekends of Gregorian calendar. If holidays are not adjusted, there will be a gap of 1 working day on some holidays and weekends every year, resulting in "fragmentation" of holidays. Vacation is a policy arrangement made under the premise that the total number of holidays is fixed, in order to avoid the holiday being too "fragmented".

Characteristics of annual leave adjustment

Annual leave embodies the characteristics of minimum intervention and combination of length and length. Holidays in 2024 are relatively balanced. In recent weekends, the Spring Festival lasts at least 8 days, the National Day lasts 7 days, and the Labor Day lasts 5 days. New Year's Day, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are all three days, and the longest working day after a long holiday is only six days. The adjustment range is relatively small, which avoids the situation of long working hours after long holidays and is more in line with people's actual needs.

China's statutory holidays have the characteristics of "more in the first half of the year, less in the second half" and "shorter in the first half and longer in the second half", with five holidays concentrated in the first half. This holiday arrangement fully considers the date characteristics of these legal holidays, and forms four holiday distributions: three-day short holiday, five-day short holiday, seven-day long holiday and nine-day super-long holiday, which well realizes the situation that long holidays and short holidays are intertwined.

Through the reasonable combination of long holidays and short holidays, people can make travel plans and arrangements for the whole year in advance, and have more and better date choices in visiting relatives, leisure and tourism, so as to avoid "rushing to travel" and "rushing to travel".