National statutory holidays include New Year’s Day, Spring Festival, Qingming Festival, International Labor Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, and National Day. The statutory holidays of New Year's Day, Tomb Sweeping Day, May Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are each one day, plus the weekends are combined, there are three days of holidays.

In May 1995, China began to implement a five-day work week.

On September 18, 1999, the State Council of China issued the "Regulations on National Holidays and Memorial Days" and decided to increase the number of public statutory holidays. There are 3 statutory holidays for the Spring Festival, "May Day" and "National Day", plus the two adjusted weekends, forming three consecutive 7-day long holidays every year, bringing the number of statutory rest days for Chinese people to 114 days per year. . ?

The tourism consumption craze set off by each long holiday has gradually become a new highlight of my country's economic life, and is known as the Golden Week. In 2004, the National Tourism Administration stated that it would not change the Golden Week holiday system in the short term.

On February 27, 2004, the president of Renmin University of China proposed adding traditional festivals as legal holidays, canceling the Golden Week, and strengthening the Spring Festival holiday.

In June 2005, the central government issued a document detailing the importance of adding New Year's Eve, Lantern Festival, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival.

On January 22, 2007, the National Development and Reform Commission went to Renmin University to listen to opinions on adding traditional Chinese festivals as legal holidays.

In February 2007, the adjustment of national statutory holidays entered the stage of soliciting opinions. The adjustment of statutory holidays was about to be announced. Xinhua News Agency published a long article in-depth analysis of the policy background of the Golden Week adjustment.