China’s 2009 holiday schedule

Oei vey. Corrected! :)

Yes, the 25th IS Sunday. You must be new here in China as the gov gives us days we already have off as part of the "advertised holiday". But seriously the reason they do it is more to address blue collar work around teh nation where factories run 24/7 and if they did not force a closure for the official holidays, there would be grief comiing from all sides. SO weekends are listed. As you can tell by the "return-to-work" days, weekends are NOT off limits to being scheduled for work.

January 25th is a Sunday on my calender!

Shangers: As I said to Lomsaku, I've corrected that. But it'll be a matter of time before the government magically creates new leap years. :)

Lomsaku: I've corrected the mistakes. Thanks for pointing it out, must have been on fumes when I wrote that.

And yes, it's not some crazy bonanza of holidays when you break it down.

When did the State Council pronounce that the leap year would be addressed with April 31, rather than the usual Feb 29?

I think the State Council can only regulate and manipulate time zones and people's lives, not the world calender. Yet.

oh, I get it after reading the article. They are combining the Mid-Autumn Festival with the October holiday to make an 8 day holiday. If they were separated, it would have been a 3 day holiday and a 7 holiday, respectively.

I don't know how I feel about this.

I see a couple of oddities in the holiday schedule.

1) The Dragon Boat festival is May 28-30th, with the official holiday on the 28 (Thurs), the 30 (Sat) as a normal weekend), and the 31 (sun) weekend shifted to the 29 (Fri). What do you mean about this February 29th business?

2) The October holiday is now 8 days! (Kind of, it's still 3 days and we have to sacrifice 5 weekend days to "earn" this extended holiday)