2012 National Holiday Schedule

[Randy W]

from the 'China Briefing' folks

 

http://www.dezshira.com/updates/2011/12/china-announces-official-2012-national-holiday-schedule.html/

 

China Announces Official 2012 National Holiday Schedule

 

China¡¯s General Office of the State Council released the ¡°Circular on Arrangement of Certain Holidays in 2012 (guobanfamingdian [2011] No.45)¡± today and announced the arrangement of national holidays in 2012 as follows:

 

New Year

 

January 1-3 (three days in total)

December 31, 2011 (Saturday) is an official working day

 

Spring Festival

 

January 22-28 (seven days in total)

January 21 (Saturday) and January 29 (Sunday) are official working days

 

Tomb Sweeping Day

 

April 2-4 (three days in total)

March 31 (Saturday) and April 1 (Sunday) are official working days

 

Labor Day

 

April 29 ¨C May 1 (three days in total)

April 28 (Saturday) is an official working day

 

Dragon Boat Festival

 

June 22-24 (three days in total)

 

Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day

 

September 30 ¨C October 7 (eight days in total)

September 29 (Saturday) is an official working day

 

[Randy W]

Note where it says "Official working days". These are required working days (for everyone following the official government schedule), which make up for specific days added to the holiday.

 

For example, they work on Dec. 31 (Saturday) in order to get an extra day off on Jan. 2. At a university, for example, the classes held on Tuesday would meet on Sat. Dec 31 instead. The consulate does not follow these "official working days", so their employees would NOT get the Tues. Jan. 3 day off. In general, a Chinese holiday of 7 or eight days would have 2 or 3 "official working days" (makeup days) that the consulate does not honor.

 

The consulate's schedule for 2012 is on this page - http://guangzhou.usembassy-china.org.cn/service/holidays.html

[Zhou Zhou]

Excellent information, we can use this! Thank you very much. ZZ