Public holidays and compensation days in China 2025

The official holidays in China are New Year, Spring Festival/Chinese New Year, Qingming Festival, Labor Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Moon Festival/Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day. Traditionally, the Spring Festival and National Day holidays are extended to a week of consecutive holidays.

 

A new regulation on public holidays stipulates that if one of the public holidays falls on a Wednesday, only that day is a public holiday. If the Moon Festival/Mid-Autumn Festival and the National Day holidays coincide, the public holidays will be extended by one day to a total of eight public holidays. This will be the case in 2025.

 

In addition, several weekend days have again been designated as working days to (partially) compensate for longer public holiday periods. At their own discretion, companies can also make such compensation days non-working days. Employees who have to work on public holidays must generally be paid 300 per cent of their normal salary for these days. On the other hand, there is no entitlement to overtime pay or any other entitlement to higher pay during the designated compensatory days.

 

The public holidays and compensation days for 2025 are as follows: