How many days a year are legal holidays in China

Legal annual holidays are the rest time for commemorative and celebratory activities uniformly stipulated by national laws and regulations, and they are also a kind of rest time for workers. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, China's statutory annual holidays are 7 days, and in 1999, the number of statutory annual holidays increased to 10 days. 2007 promulgated the "Measures for Holidays on National Annual Festivals and Commemorative Days" (State Council Decree No. 513) will be Qingming, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and New Year's Eve set as statutory holidays, set China's traditional festivals as statutory holidays, which is conducive to the promotion and inheritance of China's outstanding traditional culture, to enhance the international influence of Chinese culture, and to increase the cultural impact of Chinese people all over the world. It is also conducive to promoting and inheriting our excellent traditional culture, enhancing the influence of Chinese culture in the international arena, and improving the cultural cohesion of Chinese around the world. China's current legal annual holiday standard for 11 days, all citizens holiday holiday according to the 2013 "State Council on the revision of & lt; national annual and anniversary holiday methods & gt; decision" (State Council Decree No. 644). [3]

Legal holidays, the employer to arrange overtime work, need to pay an additional not less than three hundred percent of the worker's own daily or hourly wages for normal working hours of wage compensation. [1]

On October 25, 2021, the General Office of the State Council issued the Circular of the General Office of the State Council on the Arrangement of Some Holidays in 2022.

Historical Records

In May 1995, a five-day work week was introduced in China.

On September 18, 1999, China's State Council issued the Measures for Holidays on National Annual Festivals and Commemorative Days, deciding to increase the number of legal vacations for the public. The three statutory vacations of Spring Festival, May Day and November 11, together with the two double holidays before and after the adjustment, created two consecutive seven-day long holidays per year, bringing the number of statutory rest days for Chinese people to 14 per year. And every long vacation set off the tourism consumption fever has gradually become a new highlight of China's economic life, known as the Golden Week.

In 2004, the National Tourism Administration (NTA) indicated that it would not change the Golden Week holiday system in the near future.

February 27, 2004, the president of the Renmin University of China proposed to increase the number of traditional festivals as legal holidays, the abolition of the Golden Week, to strengthen the Spring Festival long holidays.

In June 2005, the central department issued a document detailing the importance of adding New Year's Eve, Lantern Festival, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival.

On Jan. 22, 2007, the National Development and Reform Commission went to Renmin University to hear opinions on adding traditional Chinese festivals as legal holidays.

February 2007, the adjustment of national legal holidays, into the stage of consultation, the adjustment of legal holidays called for, Xinhua News Agency published a long article in-depth analysis of the policy background of the adjustment of the Golden Week.

November 9, 2007, the national statutory holidays adjustment study group's program in the people's network, Xinhua, the National Development and Reform Commission website, as well as Sina, Sohu and other websites to be announced to carry out public opinion surveys.

Holiday adjustments

According to the announced plan for adjusting national legal holidays, the main elements of the adjustments include:

First, the total number of national legal holidays will be 11;

Second, adjustments will be made to the schedule of national legal holidays:

One day of the New Year's Day Holiday (3 days of vacation time);

Three days of the Spring Festival Holiday ( 7 days of vacation, from the first to the seventh day of the first month of the lunar calendar);[1]

"May Day" International Labor Day holiday 1 day (5 days of vacation);

"11" National Day holiday 3 days (7 days of vacation);

Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival was added as a national holiday 1 day each (the lunar calendar holiday in case of leap month, the first month as a vacation).

Third, allowing the weekend to move up and down the wrong, and legal holidays to form a consecutive holiday.