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New holiday plan finally publishedPosted by Banyue, December 17, 2007 5:50 PM
 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:
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Comments on New holiday plan finally published
do u really think that fun to translate the daily front page?
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.
...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.)
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