China has 7 legal festivals in a year, on which all Chinese people will be on vacation. They are New Year’s Day, Chinese New Year (Spring Festival), Qingming Festival, May Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day. Four of these are three-day holidays. There are two week-long national holidays in China: Chinese New Year or Spring Festival, in February, and National Day holiday, which is the first week of October.
A unique feature of Chinese holidays is that weekends, which are usually days off for office workers, are worked if there is a public holiday that week. For example if Monday to Wednesday was a public holiday then the weekend before would be worked, so the statutory holiday is effectively only one day.
| Holiday Name | Day Off | Date | Weekend Workdays |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Year’s Day | 3 Days | Dec 30, 2018 – Jan 1, 2019 | Dec 29, 2018 |
| Chinese New Year | 7 Days | Feb 4 – Feb 10, 2019 | Feb 2 and Feb 3, 2019 |
| Qingming | 3 Days | Apr 5 – 7, 2019 | / |
| May Day | 1 Day | May 1, 2019 | / |
| Dragon Boat | 3 Days | June 6 – 8, 2019 | / |
| Mid-Autumn Day | 3 Days | Sep 13 – 15, 2019 | / |
| National Day | 7 Days | Oct 1 – 7, 2019 | Sep 29, 2019 & Oct 12, 2019 |
