Chinese and Foreign Holidays

Date Festival Name Beginning of the Year Remarks

January 1 New Year's Day

First Sunday of January Black Day

Last Sunday of January International Leprosy Day (World Leprosy Day) 1954

February

February 2 World Wetlands Day

February 7 International Day of Solidarity with South Africa 1964

February 10 International Meteorological Day

February 14 Valentine's Day

February 15 China's 1.2 Billion Population Day 1995

February 21 Struggle Against Colonialism Day 1949

February 24 Youth Day in the Third World

February 28 World Day of the Survey of Habitat

World Habitat Survey Day

March

March 1 International Seal Day 1983

March 3 National Ear Care Day 2000

March 5 China Youth Volunteer Service Day

March 8 International Working Women's Day 1910

March 12 China Tree Planting Day 1979

March 14 International Police Day (Day)

March 15 International Consumer Rights Day 1983

March 16 Hand in Hand for the Poor Day of National Unified Action

March 17 International Maritime Day

China National Medical Day 1929

March 18 National Science and Technology Talent Activity Day

March 21 World Forestry Day (World Forestry Day) 1972

International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination 1976

World Children's Songs Day

World Sleep Day

World Water Day, March 22 1993

World Meteorological Day, March 23 1950

World Tuberculosis Prevention and Control Day, March 24 1996

April

April 1 International April Fool's Day

April 2 International Children's Book Day

April 7 World Health Day 1950

April 21 National Entrepreneurs' Day 1994

April 22 World Earth Day 1970

World Law Day

April 23 World Book and Copyright Day

April 24 World Youth Day Against Colonialism 1957

Asian-African Journalists Day

April 25 National Vaccination Awareness Day 1986

April 26 World Intellectual Property Day 2001

April 27 United Towns Day

April 30 National Day of Reflection on Traffic Safety

Third Sunday in April World Children's Day 1986

Secretary's Day on the last Wednesday of April

May

May 1 International Workers' Day 1889

International Day of Demonstrations

3 May World Asthma Day

May 4 China Youth Day 1939

May 4 Movement Anniversary 1919

Science and Technology Diffusion Day

May 5 National Iodine Deficiency Disease Prevention and Control Day 1994

May 8 World Red Cross Day 1948

World Smile Day

May 12 International Nurses' Day 1912

May 15 International Family (Counseling) Day 1994

May 17 World Telecommunication Day 1969

May 18 International Museum Day

May 20 National Breastfeeding Awareness Day 1990

China Student Nutrition Day 1990

May 26 World Day of Challenging the Human Condition World Challenge to Human Condition Day 1993

May 30th Anniversary of the May 30th Movement Against Imperialism 1925

May 31st World No Tobacco Day 1988

Mother's Day 1914

Save Poor Mothers Day 1997

Third Tuesday, May International Milk Day 1961

Third Sunday, May Third Sunday in May National Day for the Disabled 1990

June

June 1 International Children's Day 1949

June 5 World Environment Day 1974

June 6 National Eye Care Day 1996

June 11 China's Population Day

June 17 World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought

June 20 World Refugee Day 2001

June 22 China Children's Charity Day

June 23 International Olympic Day 1894

World Handball Day

June 25 National Land Day 1991

June 26 International Day Against Drug Abuse (International Day Against Drugs) 1987

International Charter Day (United Nations Charter Day)

June 30 World Youth Day

Father's Day, third Sunday in June

July

July 1 Birthday of the ****anese Communist Party of China 1921

Anniversary of the return of Hong Kong to the United States 1997

International Day of Architecture 1985

Asia "Three Billion People Day 1988

July 2 International Sportswriters' Day

July 7 Memorial Day of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression 1937

July 11 World Population (5 Billion) Day 1987

July 26 Day of the Creation of Esperanto

July 28 Outbreak of World War I 1914

July 30 African Women's Day

First Saturday of July International Cooperation Day

August

August 1 Chinese People's Liberation Army Founding Day 1927

August 6 International Movie Day 1932

August 8 Chinese Men's Day (Dad's Day) 1988

August 15 Japan's Official Declaration of Unconditional Surrender Day 1945

August 26 National Lawyer's Consultation Day 1993

September

September 3 China's Victory in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression Commemoration Day 1945

September 8 International Journalists' (Solidarity) Day 1958

World Literacy Day 1966

September 10 China Teachers' Day 1985

September 14 World Clean Earth Day

September 16 International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer 1987

September 18 September 18th Memorial Day of the September 18th Incident (China's National Shame Day) 1931

September 20th National Dental Day 1989

National Dental Day 1989

September 21st National Dental Day 1931

National Day of Dentistry 1989

National Day of Dentistry 1989

September 21 International Day of Peace 2002 2002 onwards

September 26 Happy Festivals Day 2001

September 27 World Tourism Day 1980?

Third Tuesday of September International Day of Peace 1981 1981-2001

Third Saturday of September National Defense Education Day 2001

Three days of the month. 2001

Fourth Sunday in September International Day of the Deaf 1958?

Last Sunday in September World Heart Day 2000?

World Maritime Day

October

October 1 Fourth of July 1949

International Day of Music 1980

International Day of Older Persons 1990 <

October 2 International Day of Struggle for Peace (and Democratic Freedom) 1949

October 4 World Animal Day 1949

October 8 National High Blood Pressure Day 1998

World Sight Day

International Left-Handed Person's Day

October 9 World Postal Day (UPU Day) 1969

October 10th Anniversary of the 1911 Revolution

World Day of Sanitation

World Mental Health Day 1992

October 11th Day of Solidarity with Political Prisoners in South Africa

October 13th Birthday of the Young Pioneers of China 1949

World Health Care Day

International Teachers' Day

Adoption of Greenwich Mean Time as International Standard Time Day 1884

October 14 World Standards Day 1969

October 15 International Day of the Blind (White Cane Day) 1984

October 16 World Food Day 1979

October 17 World Day for the Eradication of Poverty

October 22 World Day for Traditional Medicine 1992

World Day for Traditional Medicine 1992

October 22 World Traditional Medicine Day 1992

October 24 United Nations Day 1945

World Development Information Day

October 28 World Men's Health Day 2000

October 31 World Day of Thrift

First Monday of October International Day of Shelter 1982

International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction 1990

Second Wednesday of October Natural Disaster Reduction Day 1990

Annual Chung Yeung Festival China's Old Age Day (Day of Volunteer Activities to Help the Elderly) 1989

November

November 8 China's Journalists' Day 2000

November 9 China's Fire Fighting Awareness Day (Fire Fighting Day) 1992

November 10 World Youth Day 1946

November 14 World Diabetes Day

November 17 International University Students' Day (International Students' Day) 1946

November 21 World Television Day 1996

World Greetings Day 1973

The fourth Thursday in November Thanksgiving Day

December

December 1 World AIDS December 2 World Day for the Abolition of All Forms of Slavery 1986

December 3 World Day of Disabled Persons 1992

December 4 China Legal Awareness Day 2001

December 5 International Volunteer Day (for Economic and Social Development) 1985

World Day for the Mentally Handicapped

December 7 International Day of Civil Aviation

December 9 Commemoration Day of the 1929 Movement 1935

World Football Day 1995

December 10 World Human Rights Day 1950

December 11 World Asthma Day 1998

December 12 Commemoration Day of the Xi'an Incident 1936

December 13 Nanjing Massacre Remembrance Day 1936

We are pleased to announce that the International Civil Aviation Day will be celebrated in the near future. December 13 Nanjing Massacre Remembrance Day 1937

December 15 World Immunization Day

December 20 Macao Handover Remembrance Day 1999

December 21 International Basketball Day

December 24 Christmas Eve

December 25 Christmas Day

December 29 International Day of Biological Diversity Day 1994

Second Sunday in December International Children's Day of Television and Radio

Lunar Calendar Days

Chinese New Year's Day

First day of the first month of the lunar calendar

First month's 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar, Lunar New Year's Day

The second day of the second month of February, Dragon's Head Raising Day

Early fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, Dragon Boat Festival

Saturday of the first day of the seventh month of the seventh month, Tanabata (Valentine's Day)

Middle Autumn Festival