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Official Chinese Public Holiday Calendar for 2012
Feb 12, 2012By eChinacities.comThe official holiday calendar for 2012 is now out for your perusing pleasure. While it may seem similar to any other year, there are a few big differences of which to take note: First, besides the Dragon Boat Festival, we'll be required to "make up" days on the bookending weekends for all of the other holidays this year. And as keeping track of all of those Saturday/Sunday work day exchanges can get a bit complicated, why not make your life a bit easier by printing this calendar out and taping it up on your fridge or by your desk? Second, because Mid-Autumn Festival (September 30th, 2012) and National Day (October 1st, 2012) are very close this year, China will celebrate these two holidays together, during an eight-day mega-holiday bash of sorts.
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Below is the full list of the State Council approved vacation days for New Year's Day, Spring Festival, Qingming Festival, Labour Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holiday in 2012:
1) New Year's Day (元旦):
January 1-3rd, 2011. 3-day holiday. Work on December 31st 2011 (Saturday).
2) Spring Festival (春节):
January 22-28th, 2012. 7-day holiday. Work on January 21st (Sunday) and January 29th (Saturday).
3) Qingming Festival (清明节):
April 2-4th, 2012. 3-day holiday. Work on March 31st (Saturday) and April 1st (Sunday).
4) Labor Day (劳动节):
April 29th to May 1st, 2012. 3-day holiday. Work on April 28th (Saturday).
5) Dragon Boat Festival (端午节):
June 22-24th, 3-day holiday.
6) Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋节) and National Day (国庆节):
September 30th to October 7th. 8-day holiday. Work on September 29th (Saturday).
Related links
Spring Festival – Customs and Origins
Dragon Boat Holiday - What's the Story?
Legends of Mid-Autumn Day
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happy new all friend new start to all good in money heath and business, i am big buyer of scissors and knifes for yangjiang and jieyang, i pray to god good bussiness this year to labour and owner both.....
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ok. This is just so silly, it hardly needs these OBVIOUS comments.
#1: jan 1-3 passed a long time ago. WTF? A liddle late to post it now. Spring Festival? Also - GONE! oh my lady gaga.
#2: QingMing Jie. No No No. Tombsweeping day. Translate for f&^%'s suck. Oh - you did translate jie. Errr... GET IT TOGETHER!
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Hardly a holiday when you have to make up for it and work on the weekend.
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The weekend days are not used to make up the holiday, they are for the days taken next to the day off. So instead of having an isolated dayoff in the week, they add 2 days next to the holiday and you make up those days on the weekend. It allows people enough time to travel to see distant family, etc.
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OMG...
Hardly you don't have any holiday. You work on weekends and take off on working day... So funny...
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This is useful. At least I can start planning ahead now.
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Why bother give in one hand take in the other they call this holidays wake up China you wanna be western this is not
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Don't work weekends! Just take the days unpaid!
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why the concern as to how they do things...it their culture...leave them to it...I'm sure each of do things that are strange to others...
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