China's Holiday System

Measures for National Holidays on Annual and Anniversary Days

Article 1 These measures are formulated for the purpose of unifying the national holidays on annual and anniversary days.

Article 2 Holidays for all citizens:

(1) New Year's Day, 1 day off (January 1);

(2) Spring Festival, 3 days off (New Year's Eve, the first day of the first month of the first year of the Lunar New Year and the second day of the first month of the second year of the first year of the Lunar New Year);

(3) Ching Ming Festival, 1 day off (Ching Ming Day in the Lunar New Year);

(4) Labor Day, 1 day off (May 1);

(E) Dragon Boat Festival, a holiday of 1 day (the day of the Dragon Boat Festival in the lunar calendar);

(F) Mid-Autumn Festival, a holiday of 1 day (the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival in the lunar calendar);

(VII) National Day, a holiday of 3 days (October 1, 2 and 3).

Article 3 Holidays and Anniversaries on which some citizens are entitled to a holiday:

(1) Women's Day (March 8), half a day off for women;

(2) Youth Day (May 4), half a day off for young people aged 14 or above;

(3) Children's Day (June 1), one day off for children and teenagers under 14;

(4) The Anniversary of the Founding of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (June 1, 2012) (D) The anniversary of the founding of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (August 1), active military personnel take a half-day holiday.

Article 4: The local people's governments of the areas inhabited by the minority nationalities shall specify the dates of holidays in accordance with the customs of the minority nationalities.

Article 5 Other festivals and anniversaries, such as February 7 Memorial Day, May 30 Memorial Day, July 7 War Memorial Day, September 3 Victory Memorial Day, September 18 Memorial Day, Teachers' Day, Nurses' Day, Journalists' Day, Arbor Day, etc., shall not be observed as holidays.

Article 6 If a holiday that falls on a Saturday or Sunday is observed by all citizens, the holiday shall be made up on a working day. Holidays that fall on Saturdays and Sundays shall not be made up if they are observed by some citizens.

Article 7 These Regulations shall come into force on the date of promulgation.

Regulations on Paid Annual Leave for Employees

Article 1 In order to safeguard the right of employees to rest and leave and to mobilize their enthusiasm for work, these regulations are formulated in accordance with the Labor Law and the Civil Servants Law.

Article 2 Employees of organs, organizations, enterprises, institutions, private non-enterprise units, and individual industrial and commercial households with employees who have worked continuously for more than one year shall be entitled to paid annual leave (hereinafter referred to as annual leave). The unit shall ensure that employees enjoy annual leave.

Employees enjoy the same wage income during annual leave as during normal work.

Article 3: If an employee has worked for more than one year but less than ten years, the annual leave shall be five days; if he has worked for more than ten years but less than twenty years, the annual leave shall be ten days; if he has worked for more than twenty years, the annual leave shall be fifteen days.

National statutory vacations and rest days are not counted as vacation days for annual leave.

Article 4 Employees shall not be entitled to annual leave in the following cases:

(1) Employees are entitled to summer and winter vacations in accordance with the law, and the number of days of vacation is more than the number of days of annual leave;

(2) Employees who take personal leave for a cumulative total of 20 days or more without deduction of wages in accordance with the provisions of the unit;

(3) Employees who have worked for 1 year or less but have not yet completed 10 years of work, and who take sick leave for a cumulative total of 2 months or more;

(4) Employees who work for more than 1 year but have not yet completed 10 years of work, and who take sick leave for a cumulative total of 2 months or more. (c) An employee with one year of service but less than ten years of service who has taken sick leave for more than two months;

(d) An employee with ten years of service but less than twenty years of service who has taken sick leave for more than three months;

(e) An employee with twenty years of service or more of service who has taken sick leave for more than four months.

Article 5: The unit shall arrange the annual leave for the employees according to the specific situation of production and work, and taking into account the wishes of the employees themselves.

The annual leave can be arranged centrally or in sections within a year, but generally not across years. If it is necessary to arrange annual leave across years due to production and work characteristics, it can be arranged across one year.

The unit can not arrange for employees to take annual leave due to work needs, the employee's consent, you can not arrange for employees to take annual leave. For the days of annual leave not taken by the employee, the unit shall pay the annual leave wage compensation in accordance with 300% of the employee's daily wage income.

Article 6 The personnel department of the local people's government at or above the county level and the labor security department shall, on their own initiative, supervise and inspect the implementation of these regulations.

Trade union organizations shall safeguard the right of employees to annual leave in accordance with the law.

Article 7 The unit does not arrange for employees to take annual leave and does not give the annual leave wage compensation in accordance with the provisions of these Regulations, by the personnel department of the local people's government at or above the county level or the labor security department on the basis of the authority ordered to make corrections within a certain period of time; on the overdue corrections, in addition to ordering the unit to pay the wage compensation for the annual leave, the unit should be in accordance with the amount of the wage compensation for the annual leave to the employee plus compensation; on the refusal to pay the wage compensation, compensation, compensation, and the amount of the annual leave to the employee. Refusal to pay annual leave pay, compensation, belonging to the civil servants and civil service law management of the personnel unit, the directly responsible for the supervisors and other directly responsible personnel shall be given sanctions in accordance with the law; belonging to other units, by the labor security department, personnel department, or the employee to apply to the people's court for compulsory execution.

Article 8 Disputes between employees and units over annual leave shall be handled in accordance with the relevant state laws and administrative regulations.

Article 9 The personnel department of the State Council, the State Council department of labor security based on the authority, respectively, to formulate the implementation of these regulations.

Article 10 These Regulations shall come into force on January 1, 2008 .