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New holiday plan finally published

Posted by Banyue, December 17, 2007 5:50 PM
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Beijing Times
December 17, 2007

The top headline of today's Beijing Times announces that the State Council has released a new schedule of public holidays. Under the new plan, the May Day Golden Week has been removed and replaced with three traditional Chinese holidays: the Qing Ming Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival. The plan will go into effect on January 1, 2008.

The front page photo shows thousands of people crowding onto Zhengyi Road, Chongwen Disitrict, to draw numbers for homes in Hongshan Jiayuan. This is the only affordable housing project inside the Third Ring Road.

Other headlines:

  • Construction on the Beijing-Tianjin Express Railway was completed yesterday. This is the first 300-kph, inter-city railway in China. It will reduce travel time between Beijing and Tianjin to just 30 minutes and will begin operation before the Olympic games next year;
  • Gome, China's top appliance retailer, announced yesterday that it had acquired Beijing-based competitor Dazhong for 3.65 billion yuan;
  • Kaka led AC Milan to a 4-2 win over Boca Juniors in the Club World Cup final yesterday.
 

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do u really think that fun to translate the daily front page?

Posted by: david | December 18, 2007 11:24 AM

These "May holiday headlines" are crazy stupid. It's like every day they choose a different feature of the plan and stick it in the headline. First the re-arranging of the holidays, then the new paid time-off requirements, and now the overtime salary for working on the holidays. Just put it all in one article, geez.

Posted by: Micah Sittig | December 18, 2007 11:52 AM

...and the most pressing issue of all: in years where a holiday falls in a leap-month, do we get double vacation? (The answer: no, of course not.)

Posted by: Joel | December 18, 2007 12:28 PM

i just simply want a longer holiday, you know, consecutive, instead of some skipped holidays, cuz it will ruin my holiday plan. i wanna try to somewhere during the mayday holiday, now it seems impossible...

ps.i like the unique way of translation, keep up the good work

Posted by: wei | December 20, 2007 12:51 AM

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