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Source: 国务院办公厅关于2027年部分节假日安排的通知 · published 2026-11-05 · checked 2026-11-05
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The State Council usually publishes the official holiday and makeup workday schedule for the upcoming year in early November. AcrossKit synchronizes and verifies all dates immediately upon official gazetting.
How this works
- Every date is checked against that year's State Council holiday notice: statutory holidays, ordinary weekends, and weekend days converted into working days (makeup workdays).
- Counting includes both the start and end dates. Adding workdays begins from the following working day and never counts the start date itself.
- Calculations are strictly based on verified official notices, preventing speculative scheduling errors.
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Why mainland China's working days are hard to guess
Mainland China's public holidays are set by national law, but which calendar dates are actually off is decided each year by a State Council notice, usually published in early November for the following year. To give people longer consecutive breaks, the notice moves working days onto nearby Saturdays and Sundays. Those weekend days become makeup workdays (调休).
Under the statutory revision, China observes 13 statutory holiday days annually. In 2027, the official notice schedules 5 makeup workdays across the year. The longest continuous holiday, Spring Festival, runs for 9 days in a row. Because of this swapping mechanism, a Tuesday or Wednesday can be an official holiday, a Sunday can be a normal working day, and the week immediately before or after a golden week often contains six consecutive working days.
Anyone outside China who counts business days simply by Monday through Friday will get many of those critical dates wrong. AcrossKit checks every date against the official State Council notices line by line, ensuring cross-border teams never miss a factory cutoff, wire deadline, or meeting window.
Cross-border team scheduling tips
Spring Festival factory and logistics cutoffs
Although China's official Spring Festival holiday typically runs for 8 or 9 days, manufacturing plants, freight forwarders, and logistics warehouses across mainland China often begin ramping down operations 7 to 14 days before the official holiday starts. Full production capacity and container terminal operations usually take another week to recover after the holiday ends. Always add at least two weeks of operational buffer for manufacturing and delivery orders around January and February.
Asynchronous coordination on Saturday makeup days
When Chinese teams work on a Saturday or Sunday makeup workday, their partners in North America, Europe, and other parts of Asia are usually on weekend rest. Avoid scheduling real-time client calls or synchronous review sessions on these days; instead, use weekend makeup days for deep work, internal ticket resolution, and preparing handoffs for Western colleagues on Monday morning.
Banking and cross-border payment windows
The People's Bank of China (PBOC) and commercial clearing systems pause domestic clearing and renminbi (RMB) foreign exchange settlement during statutory golden week breaks. Cross-border SWIFT transfers, letter-of-credit settlements, and vendor invoice payments initiated right before a holiday may remain queued until banks reopen. Submit cross-border wire requests at least three business days prior to major breaks.
Multi-regional holiday calendar conflicts
Regional holidays in Asia frequently overlap without aligning. For example, Japan's Golden Week and mainland China's Labour Day holiday both occur in early May, but their working days and weekend swaps differ significantly. Similarly, Singapore and Hong Kong observe distinct public holidays despite sharing the same time zone. Use our Team Overlap tool to compute shared working hours and identical working days across multiple jurisdictions.
Frequently asked questions (FAQ)
- What is a makeup workday (调休) in mainland China?
- A makeup workday (调休) is a Saturday or Sunday that the State Council designates as an official working day to bridge statutory holidays with weekends, creating unbroken 3-day, 7-day, or 8-day holiday blocks. On makeup workdays, government agencies, schools, banks, and enterprises operate on regular weekday business hours.
- When does China release its official holiday calendar each year?
- The State Council of the People's Republic of China officially publishes the annual holiday and makeup workday schedule in early November each year (usually between November 4 and November 15). AcrossKit monitors government gazettes directly and updates all calendars on the day the official notice is signed.
- How do makeup workdays affect statutory overtime pay?
- Under China's Labour Law, working on a statutory holiday (such as Lunar New Year's Day or National Day) requires triple-rate overtime pay (300%) if no compensatory rest is provided. Working on a weekend makeup day is treated as a normal working day paid at standard wage rates, as the rest day has been shifted to the holiday block.
- How does the AcrossKit workday calculator count date ranges?
- AcrossKit counts working days inclusively (including both the start and end dates), strictly subtracting statutory holidays and normal weekends while adding official makeup workdays. When using the 'Add workdays' feature, counting starts from the following business day and skips non-working days.
- Do Hong Kong and Taiwan follow mainland China's makeup workday rules?
- No. Hong Kong operates under the General Holidays Ordinance and does not schedule weekend makeup workdays (Sunday holidays are replaced by the following Monday). Taiwan follows the government office calendar published each year by the Directorate-General of Personnel Administration, which has no makeup workdays in 2026 or 2027: a holiday on a weekend is given on a weekday instead.
- How can cross-border teams plan project milestones around Chinese holidays?
- Identify critical path dependencies well in advance of the two major golden weeks (Spring Festival in January/February and National Day in early October). Verify factory shutdown dates with local managers, schedule code releases before holiday freezes, and use AcrossKit's Team Overlap tool to identify common working days with overseas counterparts.
Where to start
- Waiting on a supplier, factory or colleague in China — When they stop and restart around Spring Festival and National Day, and which weekends they work.
- Working with a team in several countries — Days everyone works and the hours you share, for up to five places, including the US, UK, Japan and Singapore.
- Hong Kong — General holidays, Sunday substitution, and how they differ from the mainland.
- Taiwan — The government office calendar, which no longer has makeup workdays.
- Russia — Moved days off, working Saturdays and shortened days before holidays.
- Vietnam — Tết, swapped Saturdays and the government's holiday decisions.
- United States — Federal holidays as observed, moved to the Friday or Monday when they fall on a weekend.
- United Kingdom — Bank holidays for England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
- Japan — National and substitute holidays, and the government year-end closure.
- Singapore — Public holidays, and the Monday off after a Sunday holiday.
- Guides — Longer explanations with worked examples.