Cctv newsAccording to the official blog of @ National Development and Reform Commission, the annual annual holiday arrangement has always been the focus of public attention and anticipation. After overall coordination and comprehensive consideration, the General Office of the State Council released some holiday arrangements for 2024 in due course. This holiday arrangement mainly presents five highlights:
Highlight 1: 9 days, the longest Spring Festival holiday in history.
In 2024, there will be at least 8 days of holiday in the Spring Festival, from the first day to the eighth day. If you cooperate with paid vacation, you can have a holiday for 9 days, which is the first big gift package in the New Year. Although there is no nominal holiday on New Year’s Eve, all units and institutions are encouraged to make flexible arrangements according to the actual situation. At the same time, the expressway has been free, which is essentially to create conditions for ordinary people to take an extra day off. The extension of the Spring Festival holiday can satisfy the desire of the masses to spend more time on family reunion, and can also achieve a small goal of reuniting first and then traveling. This is an innovative and warm-hearted move based on the provisions of the National Holidays and Remembrance Days, which fully reflects the good intentions and careful design of policy makers.
Highlight 2: It has to be adjusted, but it is more humane and flexible.
Vacation is a topic of general concern to the public in holiday arrangements. At present, there are quite different opinions among the public on whether to take a vacation and how to take it. Generally speaking, it is better to take a rest than not to take a rest, and it has to be adjusted. Because among the seven statutory holidays, the Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are determined according to the lunar calendar, New Year’s Day, Labor Day and National Day are determined according to the Gregorian calendar, and Tomb-Sweeping Day is determined according to the solar terms, which is not enough to connect with the weekends in the Gregorian calendar. If we do not make a holiday, basically every year, some holidays will be separated from weekends by one working day, resulting in a lot of "single jumps", which is not "single jumps" Vacation is an effective policy arrangement to avoid "fragmentation" of holidays under the premise of fixed total holidays. In 2024, the "9573" holiday schedule was formed through the adjustment of holidays, which showed strong humanization and flexibility.
Highlight 3: Minimal intervention, try not to disturb people’s normal life rhythm.
Holidays in 2024 are relatively balanced. By borrowing near the weekend, the Spring Festival is at least 8 days, the National Day is 7 days, and the Labor Day is 5 days. New Year’s Day, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are all 3 days, and the longest working day after the long holiday is only 6 days. The adjustment range is relatively small, which avoids the situation of long working hours after the long holiday and better meets the actual needs of people.
Highlight 4: the combination of length and length can better meet the travel requirements and vacation expectations of the masses.
China’s statutory holidays have the characteristics of time distribution "more in the first half of the year, less in the second half" and date interval "shorter in the first half and longer in the second half", with five holidays concentrated in the first half. This holiday arrangement fully takes into account the date characteristics of these legal holidays, and forms four holiday distributions, namely, a three-day short holiday, a five-day short holiday, a seven-day long holiday and a nine-day super-long holiday, which better realizes the situation that long holidays and short holidays are intertwined. Through the reasonable combination of long vacation and short vacation, people can make travel plans and arrangements for the whole year in advance, and have more and better date choices in visiting relatives, leisure and tourism, so as to avoid "rushing to travel" and "rushing to travel".
Highlight 5: Encourage the implementation of paid annual leave to better protect people’s rest rights.
For the first time, the State Council Office proposed to encourage the implementation of the system of paid annual leave, which is essentially to advocate enterprises and institutions to let go if they can under the premise of ensuring basic operation. At present, the total number of legal holidays in China is 11 days, with 104 days off on weekends and 5-15 days off with pay. The total number of holiday days is above the average level in the world. The reason why people still feel that holidays are not enough and their sense of gain is not strong is that the paid annual leave system is not implemented in place, and we can’t blame the statutory holiday arrangements and holidays. This holiday arrangement is a very clever exploration by encouraging employers to incorporate the New Year’s Eve holiday into the paid annual holiday arrangement. Relatively speaking, paid annual leave has a longer holiday time and more flexible arrangement, which is more suitable for people’s objective needs of off-peak travel and decentralized arrangement. Only by coordinating paid annual leave with legal holidays can workers’ right to rest be more guaranteed and fully guaranteed.