Golden Week (China)

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The Golden Week (Chinese: 黄金周; pinyin: Huángjīn Zhōu), in China, is the name given to three separate seven-day or eight-day national holidays, which were implemented in 2000: Spring Festival, the Golden Week around the Chinese new year, begins in January or February. The "Labor Day (May Day) Golden Week" begins May 1 and was reintroduced in 2019 after being discontinued in 2007. The "National Day Golden Week" begins around October 1. If Mid-Autumn Festival is near National Day, the Golden Week may be eight days long. Three or four (if Mid-Autumn Festival is near National Day) days of paid leave are given, and surrounding weekends are rescheduled so that workers always have seven or eight continuous days off. These national holidays were first started by the government for China's National Day in 1999 and are primarily intended to help expand the domestic tourism market and improve the national standard of living as well as allowing people to make long-distance family visits. Golden Weeks...

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