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Public Holidays and Bank Holidays for China

The list of China bank holidays, national holidays and public holidays for 2009, comes from the Q++ Worldwide Public Holidays Database, the professional source of international public holidays long trusted by the world's foremost diary publishers. The information on this page is provided for private, non-professional, use. Qualified professionals can license data for 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, and beyond. For details, please visit our licensing information page or

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26 Sep 2009 (AFP-Guangdong) Mao Xinyu, a member of China's National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), and the grandson of late Chairman Mao Zedong, has proposed that China declare 2 public holidays to commemorate his grand-father. • 18 Sep 2009 (Xinhua-Yinchuan) The regional government of China's autonomous region of Ningxia have declared Monday, September 21, 2009, a public holiday on the occasion of the End of Ramadan Muslim festival. • 31 Mar 2009 (Asia Times Online-Hong Kong) A few hours ago, the Guangdong provincial government issued an emergency notice canceling its arrangements for the upcoming May Day Golden Week, and removed all previous notices about the long holiday from all the Guangdong government's websites. • 26 Mar 2009 (Xinhua-Beijing) China's State Council Thursday asked local governments to "strictly" observe regulations on national holidays, thus putting an end to the ongoing speculation that many regions would restore the May Golden Week public holidays this year. • 15 Mar 2009 (Xinhua-Beijing) China's Hangzhou Tourism Commission has announced that it plans to resume the seven-day May Day Golden Week public holiday by adding a paid holiday of four days before or after the public holiday, or by adding two days before and two days after the holiday. • 05 Mar 2009 (China Daily-Shanghai) At a recent session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), Zhang Xiqin, the vice director of the National Tourism Administration, called for a resumption of the Labor Day Golden Week public holidays. • 25 Feb 2009 (Xinhua-Guangzhou) China's Central Government has approved a pilot plan by the provincial government of Guangdong to restore the May Golden week public holidays. This pilot project would be limited to Guangdong Province. • 20 Feb 2009 (China Radio International-CRI) China's government news agency has announced that from this year onward, the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) would be granted 7 days of public holidays, to coincide with the Tibetan New Year (Losar). • 23 Jan 2009 (Interfax TMT China-Shanghai) Commodity, financial and stock markets in mainland China will close from Saturday, January 24 to Sunday, February 1, 2009, due to the Chinese New Year holiday. • 19 Jan 2009 (AFP-Beijing) China announced that, from this year onward, March 28, the date in 1959 when China announced the dissolution of the Tibetan government, would be an annual holiday officially called "Serfs Emancipation Day", to be commemorated in the Chinese Administrative Region of Tibet. • 11 Jan 2009 (Xinhua-Lhasa) The Chinese government has announced that it plans to declare a one-off public holiday, "Serf Liberation Day", on Tuesday, March 10, 2009, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the end of the Tibetan rebellion of 1959. • 01 Jan 2009 (China Daily-Guangzhou) China's Guangdong provincial Governor, Huang Huahua, announced that Guangdong Province might extend the upcoming May Day public holidays to last for a week to boost tourism and stimulate domestic consumption amid the financial crisis. • 10 Dec 2008 (State Council of China-Beijing) The State Council of China has released the official list of 2009 public holidays, including the list of working Saturdays and Sundays that compensate for some of the bridge public holidays and spring and fall Golden Weeks. • 04 Sep 2008 (China Economic Unit) The Chinese media are reporting widespread confusion as the details of the upcoming National Day Golden Week public holiday are being released. To the surprise of many, the upcoming Golden Week public holiday will run from Monday, September 29, to Sunday, October 5, 2008, while the preceding week-end (September 27-28) will be regular working days. • More News Updates For the full version of the summarized news items above, and older news items not displayed above, go to the China public holidays news and updates page, or worldwide public holidays news and updates page, or subscribe to one of our free email newsletters.

Regulatory Body: The final decision on adjustments to China's holiday schedule is made by a concertation of the 14 ministries that constitute the National Holiday Office. • Public Holidays Extensions: To achieve week-long public holidays around Lunar New Year (Chun Jie) and October 1st, and 3-day public holidays for other holidays, it is customary to make one or both of the weekend days of a nearby weekend into working days. • Partial Holidays: In addition to the list of official national public holidays, listed above, there are partial holidays for particular groups of people. Business meetings may or may not be affected. • Women receive a half-day holiday on March 8’s International Women’s Day (Funu Jie) • Youth 14-18 get half a day off on May 4 on Youth Day (Qingnian Jie) • The under 14s are spoiled with a full-day off on June 6 for Children’s Day (Ertong Jie) • Members of the PLA (People's Liberation Army) get a half-day off on August 1. • Serf Emancipation Day (Tibet) on March 28. • In addition, some of the national minorities are able to determine their own holidays in accordance with their own traditional festivals • Golden Weeks: it is customary for people to work some weekends either before or after the official holiday time in order to make some of the official holidays into an entire week off from work called Golden Weeks. These Golden Weeks used to be centered around the Lunar New Year, May Day and October 1st public holidays, but the May Golden Week was dropped at the end of 2007. • Chinese Lunar New Year's Eve was made into a public holiday (the first day of the Lunar New Year Golden Week) at the end of 2007. • Workweek: offices and agencies in China follow the five workdays per week system. Since 2005, factories have to, at least, give the Sundays off to their workers. • Beijing 2008 Olympic Games: Although the listed start of the Beijing 2008 Olympics is August 8th, the first day of events is August 6th. • China International Codes CN and CHN (2 and 3-letter ISO3166 codes) and .cn (ICANN national top-level internet domain). • Other Sources of Information The following specialized websites are also a good source of China information and news: The People's Bank of China (China central bank), ASI Hot Spots (security-related world events: terrorist threats, political strife, strikes, criminal activity, aviation incidents and health outbreaks), CIA World Factbook (China maps, demographics and economic statistics), and Wikipedia (includes China commemorative dates that are not necessarily public holidays).

Religion of Specific Business Contacts : Some of the business contacts that you may be trying to meet in China, may belong to a religious group that is not common in China, and therefore which is not included in the above list of public holidays or bank holidays. To be safe, you should also verify that no major religious holidays coincides with any planned business trip to China. For more information, see our pages on the religious calendars of the world.

Disclaimer
In many parts of the world, holidays are subject to arbitrary, last minute, changes by local authorities. While every effort has been made to present an accurate list of 2009 bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for China, we cannot accept any responsibility for any error or omission in the data presented above. You are therefore advised to verify the above dates with the embassy or consulate of China, before planning any trip to China. For last-minute updates to worldwide public holidays, visit our blog or subscribe to our free email newsletters.