This year's amendment changed Spring Festival to the first three days of the first lunar month of each year. According to a previous amendment in 2008, the three-day Spring Festival started on the last day of the lunar year.

Cai Jiming, director of the Center for Political Economy at Tsinghua University, who leads a team researching holiday system reform, was also involved in the 2008 amendment.

He said the change will bring inconvenience to people who are asked to work until the last minute.

His team had proposed expanding Spring Festival from three days to four days, but the proposal was not accepted by the government.

Questions:

1. How many holidays are there in 2017?

2. What will Spring Festival and National Day holidays be?

3. What does a new amendment mean for Spring Festival?

Answers:

1. 11.

2. They’ll be 7-day breaks.

3. The holiday is now the first three days of the first lunar month of each year.

About the broadcaster:

Nelly Min is an editor at China Daily with more than 10 years of experience as a newspaper editor and photographer. She has worked at major newspapers in the U.S., including the Los Angeles Times and the Detroit Free Press. She is also fluent in Korean.

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