Holidays & Festivals

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We love them and we’d love them more if they were uniform across the globe. Holidays and Festivals have a habit of happening after you’ve worked out your travel schedule to the last nanosecond. Find out how your trip figures with calendars around the world with JourneyMart’s exhaustive list.
CHINA
Date 2008 Occasion
January 1 New Year's Day Holiday  
February 7 Chinese New Year / Lunar New Year 
February 21 Lantern Festival
March 8 International Women's Working Day*
March 12 Arbor Day
May 1 International Labour Day
May 4 Youth Day
June 1 International Children's Day
July 1 Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party
August 1 Army Day
September 14 Mid Autumn Festival
October 1-2 National Day

*Holiday for women only

Non-Holiday Observances

April 5 Qing Ming
June 8 Tuen Ng (Dragon Boat) Festival

Weekend Saturday, Sunday