Sources: Xinhua, China Daily, and China public holidays. Zhang Hui, dean of the tourism administration department at Beijing International Studies University, told a forum in Xiamen, east China's Fujian Province, that China's government is likely to scrap up its "golden week" public holiday system and make more traditional festivals into full public holidays by 2009.The week-long May Day public holiday would be shortened to one day and the October National Day public holiday to two days, while the The Lunar New Year golden week public holiday (January/February) would be preserved.
In compensation for these shortened public holidays, there is a consensus that the Mid-Autumn Festival (September/October) should be made into a public holiday. The other 2 days lost as part of the above changes in Golden Week public holidays could be made-up by making 2 of the following festivals into full public holidays: the Lantern Festival (February/March), the Tomb-Sweeping Day (early April), the Dragon-Boat Festival (aka. Tuen Ng festival, in May/June) and the Chung Yeung Festival (aka. Double Nine Day, in October).
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