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Source: 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.
This was a surprise to many, as the National Day Golden Week public holiday had run from October 1 to October 7, every year without exception, since 1999 (20-Sep-1999).
This year's change is due to an obscure part of the changes made to China's public holidays regulations last December (17-Dec-2007) which was not widely reported in the media and the explanations of which, as far as we know, were only released in Chinese at the time.
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