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China bank holidays, national holidays and public holidays for 2013, 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.

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07 Mar 2013 China Calls For Additional Public Holidays (China Daily-Shenzhen) A member of China's CPPCC National Committee, Sha Zhenquan, has called for an additional Golden Week of non-working public holidays in China at the end of July. • 11 Dec 2012 China 2013 Public Holidays Schedule Released (Government Portal of the State Council of China-Beijing) China's General Office of the State Council has released the final and official version of China's list of 2013 non-working public holidays, including the list of working Saturdays and Sundays that compensate for some of the bridge public holidays and for the traditional spring and fall, week-long, Golden Week public holidays. • 12 Nov 2012 China 2013 Public Holidays Schedule Draft (Government Portal of the State Council of China-Beijing) China's General Office of the State Council has circulated a draft version of China's official list of 2013 public holidays, including the list of working Saturdays and Sundays that compensate for some of the bridge public holidays and for the traditional spring and fall, week-long, Golden Week public holidays. • 11 Oct 2012 China May 2013 Public Holidays Extension Ruled-Out (Government Portal of the State Council of China-Beijing) China's National Tourism Administration has issued a terse, 2-line, statement denying that a return to weeklong May public holidays would soon be announced, as had been reported in some local media. • 17 Aug 2012 China 2012 Ramadan Public Holidays (People's Government of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region-Urumqi) The Chinese provinces of Qinghai and Xinjiang have declared a 3-day regional public holidays for the upcoming Eid-ul-Fitr (End of Ramadan). • 07 Dec 2011 China 2012 Public Holidays Schedule Announced (Government Portal of the State Council of China-Beijing) China's General Office of the State Council has released China's official list of 2012 public holidays, including the list of working Saturdays and Sundays that compensate for some of the bridge public holidays and for the traditional spring and fall, week-long, Golden Week public holidays. • 22 Jul 2011 China Declares Universiade Public Holidays (China Daily-Shenzhen) The Chinese State Council has approved the declaration of August 11-14 and August 22-24, 2011, as one-off, public holidays to coincide with the upcoming Universiade Games in Shenzhen. • 09 Mar 2011 China Deputy Proposes 16-Day CNY Public Holidays (China Daily-Sichuan Province) A deputy of the Chinese National People's Congress, Li Jing, who is also the mayor of Meishan City in Sichuan Province, is proposing that the current 7-day Chinese/Lunar New Year public holidays be extended to 16 consecutive days. • 11 Dec 2010 China 2011 Public Holidays Schedule Announced (Government Portal of the State Council of China-Beijing) Last night, the State Council of China released China's official list of 2011 public holidays, including the list of working Saturdays and Sundays that compensate for some of the bridge public holidays and for the traditional spring and fall, week-long, Golden Week public holidays. • 29 Sep 2010 China Announces 3 Regional Public Holidays (The People's Daily-Guangzhou) The Government of Guangzhou has announced 3 municipal non-working public holidays on account of the upcoming 16th Asian Games. • 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 2013 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 worldwide public holidays news and updates page or subscribe to our free email newsletters.