China has seven public holidays in 2032. The two long breaks are Spring Festival, February 10 to 17, and National Day Golden Week, October 1 to 7. Chinese New Year falls on Wednesday, February 11, and begins the Year of the Water Rat 壬子鼠年. These are expected dates.
Expected
| Holiday | Festival day | Expected days off |
|---|---|---|
| New Year's Day元旦 Yuándàn | Thu, Jan 1 | Jan 1–33 days, Thu to Sat |
| Spring Festival (Chinese New Year)春节 Chūnjié | Wed, Feb 11 | Feb 10–178 days, Tue to Tue |
| Qingming Festival清明节 QīngmíngjiéTomb-Sweeping Day | Sun, Apr 4 | Apr 3–53 days, Sat to Mon |
| Labor Day劳动节 Láodòngjié | Sat, May 1 | May 1–55 days, Sat to Wed |
| Dragon Boat Festival端午节 Duānwǔjié | Sat, Jun 12 | Jun 12–143 days, Sat to Mon |
| Mid-Autumn Festival中秋节 Zhōngqiūjié | Sun, Sep 19 | Sep 18–203 days, Sat to Mon |
| National Day (Golden Week)国庆节 Guóqìngjié | Fri, Oct 1 | Oct 1–77 days, Fri to Thu |
These are expected dates, worked out from the lunar calendar and the holiday rules in force since 2025. The State Council publishes the official schedule, with its make-up working days 调休 tiáoxiū, around November 2031. Use these breaks to plan, and confirm before you book.
This chart shows the same dates as the table, month by month.
These are the traditional festivals, solar terms and commemorative days people mark in China. Most are not days off. A few give a half day to one group, and Guangxi, where CLI is, gives two days off for Sanyuesan.
| Date | Holiday | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Tue, Jan 20 | Laba Festival腊八节 Làbājié | Traditional festival: laba porridge |
| Wed, Feb 25 | Lantern Festival元宵节 Yuánxiāojié | Traditional festival: ends the New Year season |
| Mon, Mar 8 | International Women's Day妇女节 Fùnǚjié | Half day off for women |
| Fri, Mar 12 | Arbor Day植树节 Zhíshùjié | Tree-planting day |
| Sat, Mar 20 | Spring Equinox春分 Chūnfēn | Solar term |
| Mon, Apr 12 | Sanyuesan Festival三月三 Sānyuèsān | Two days off in Guangxi, where CLI is (expected Apr 12–13) |
| Tue, May 4 | Youth Day青年节 Qīngniánjié | Half day off for ages 14 to 28 |
| Tue, Jun 1 | Children's Day儿童节 Értóngjié | Day off for children under 14 |
| Mon, Jun 21 | Summer Solstice夏至 Xiàzhì | Solar term |
| Date | Holiday | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Thu, Jul 1 | CPC Founding Day建党节 Jiàndǎngjié | Founding of the Communist Party of China, 1921 |
| Sun, Aug 1 | Army Day建军节 Jiànjūnjié | Half day off for active military; falls on a Sunday this year |
| Thu, Aug 12 | Qixi Festival (Chinese Valentine's Day)七夕节 Qīxījié | Traditional festival |
| Fri, Aug 20 | Ghost Festival中元节 Zhōngyuánjié | Traditional festival |
| Fri, Sep 10 | Teachers' Day教师节 Jiàoshījié | Students thank their teachers |
| Wed, Sep 22 | Autumn Equinox秋分 Qiūfēn | Solar term; also Farmers' Harvest Festival |
| Tue, Oct 12 | Double Ninth Festival重阳节 Chóngyángjié | Traditional festival; Seniors' Day |
| Thu, Nov 11 | Singles' Day双十一 Shuāngshíyī | Shopping festival |
| Tue, Dec 21 | Winter Solstice冬至 Dōngzhì | Solar term and family festival |
Video (2:22). Why one student came back to Guilin to keep learning Chinese at CLI. The building with the lanterns is the CLI Center.
The Chinese Language Institute (CLI) is a Chinese school in Guilin, the city of karst hills and rivers in southern China. Students take one-on-one lessons with their own team of teachers and live the language outside class.
The festivals on this calendar are part of the year here. Before Spring Festival, students fold dumplings with their teachers. For the Dragon Boat Festival they wrap 粽子 zòngzi, sticky rice in bamboo leaves, and at Mid-Autumn everyone sits down to dinner together.
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China has 13 statutory days off a year, spread over seven holidays: one day for New Year's Day, four for Spring Festival (New Year's Eve and the first three days of the lunar year), one for Qingming, two for Labor Day, one each for the Dragon Boat and Mid-Autumn festivals, and three for National Day.
Those days are then joined to weekends to make longer breaks. Since 2025 the rules give a Spring Festival break of eight days from New Year's Eve (in 2026 it ran nine, taking in the Sunday before a Monday Eve, and this page assumes the same for later years), seven days for National Day from October 1 (eight when the Mid-Autumn Festival falls inside it) and five days for Labor Day. The other four holidays become a three-day weekend, unless the holiday falls on a Wednesday, when only that day is off.
The 2032 dates on this page come from those rules. Applied to 2025 and 2026, they give exactly the breaks the State Council set, but a future notice can still differ by a day or so. Check the official schedule before you book travel.
New Year's Day, Labor Day and National Day follow the Western calendar. Spring Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival follow the Chinese lunar calendar, so they move by up to a month from one year to the next. Qingming follows the solar terms, and falls on April 4 or 5.
In 2032, Chinese New Year's Eve 除夕 chúxī is Tuesday, February 10, and the first day of the Year of the Rat is February 11.
Spring Festival brings the world's largest yearly migration, the travel rush 春运 chūnyùn, which runs for about 40 days, roughly January 27 to March 6 in 2032. Train tickets home sell out within minutes. Golden Week in October is the busiest week for domestic tourism, and scenic spots such as Guilin's Li River are at their most crowded.
Shops and restaurants mostly stay open over the holidays, apart from the first days of Spring Festival, when many small businesses close while their owners go home. Government offices and banks close for the whole break.
CLI's class calendar follows the national holidays, with a few differences, and is set once the official schedule is out. If your program overlaps a closure, you can make up each missed class day at no extra cost, by extending your program, taking the hours online, or adding hours to other days. Ask CLI's admissions team for the calendar for your dates.
Chinese New Year falls on Wednesday, February 11, 2032. It begins the Year of the Water Rat. The public holiday is expected to run 8 days, from February 10 to 17.
National Day is October 1. The Golden Week break is expected to run 7 days, from October 1 to 7.
The Mid-Autumn Festival falls on Sunday, September 19, the 15th day of the eighth lunar month.
Not yet. The State Council usually publishes the next year's schedule in early November, so the 2032 notice is expected in November 2031. The dates on this page follow the current rules and will be updated when it is out.
CLI closes for each public holiday, but its calendar is not the same as the national one. Some national days off are class days at CLI, and the Spring Festival closure can run longer. Missed class days can be made up at no extra cost. How CLI handles holidays.
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