{"id":35209,"date":"2004-11-19T08:19:52","date_gmt":"2004-11-19T00:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/2004\/11\/19\/chinas-golden-week-holidays-may-disappear\/"},"modified":"2004-11-19T08:19:52","modified_gmt":"2004-11-19T00:19:52","slug":"chinas-golden-week-holidays-may-disappear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/2004\/11\/19\/35209\/","title":{"rendered":"China's Golden Week Holidays May Disappear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China is considering removing two of its three annual Golden Week holidays and replacing them with flexible, paid annual leave for all workers. The two nationwide week-long holidays that may be scrapped are Labour Day and National Day. The third Golden Week is the Lunar New Year.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Former premier Zhu Rongji launched the Golden Week holidays in October 1999 to stimulate domestic consumption to help offset the impact of the Asian financial crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The State Council, or cabinet, recently convened a conference to discuss the feasibility of scrapping the holidays.\n<\/p>\n<p>Officials of the National Tourism Administration, the Ministry of Railways, the Civil Administration of Civil Aviation and the National Development and Reform Commission attended.\n<\/p>\n<p>Travellers have no shortage of horror stories about the holidays. Service deteriorates, they say, restaurants and scenic spots become unpleasantly crowded, and hotel room rates soar.\n<\/p>\n<p>The disadvantages of fixed holidays have come to outweigh the advantages. As travellers became more experienced, they were more and more reluctant to travel during golden weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China is considering removing two of its three annual Golden Week holidays and replacing them with flexible, paid annual leave for all workers. The two nationwide week-long holidays that may be scrapped are Labour Day and National Day. The third Golden Week is the Lunar New Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12723],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}