2025 Golden Week Holiday & Make-Up Working Days

By Yinmai O'Connor, September 5, 2025

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China's National Day holiday, known as Golden Week, is less than a month away, and it’s time to plan your vacation!

National Day celebrates the founding of the People's Republic of China on October 1, 1949.

The Mid-Autumn Festival, which occurs during the same period, is a Chinese holiday celebrating the fall harvest and is a time for family reunions, as well as a bit of moon-gazing.

It takes place on the 15th day of the eighth lunar monthin 2025, it falls on Monday, October 6.

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This year we will have an eight-day-long vacation from Wednesday, October 1 to Sunday, October 8, with two make-up working days on Sunday, September 28 and Saturday, October 11.

As always, train tickets sell out quickly and flight prices soarso make sure to book yours as soon as possible!


[Cover image via Examine China]

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