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Source: The Shanghai Daily
China may shorten the length of its Golden Week holidays and add more traditional festivals on its list of pubic holidays. The National Development and Reform Commission, China's top planning body, has issued a draft on modifying public holidays, according to the information released at Wednesday's summit forum about China's social development policy.
Lunar New Year's Eve, the Lantern Festival, Qingming, the Dragon-Boat Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival, are the five major traditional Chinese festivals that may become new public holidays, according to the draft.
The May and October Golden Weeks, established in 1999 (20-Sep-1999), would be shortened to compensate these new holidays (probably 2 would be selected).
The shortening of the Lunar New Year Golden Week is not currently being considered as, on the contrary, the addition of Lunar New Year's Eve (Sanshi in Chinese) is being considered as part of the reform package.
The above draft recommendations are in line with the possible changes mentioned in our posts of 17-Feb-2007 and 03-Oct-2006.
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