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China : complete schedule of public and bank holidays, closure of banks and stock exchanges, school vacations, trade fairs, cultural and sporting events, festivals, carnivals, election during the next 3 months

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    Saturday december 30, 2023Public holidaySecular holiday
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    Monday january 1, 2024New Year's DaySecular holiday
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    Friday january 5, 2024Harbin China International Ice and Snow FestivalEvents, celebrations...
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    Sunday february 4, 2024WORKING DAYSecular holiday
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    Friday february 9, 2024Chinese New Year’s EveSecular holiday
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    Saturday february 10, 2024Chinese New YearSecular holiday
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    Monday february 12, 2024Chinese New YearSecular holiday
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    Tuesday february 13, 2024Chinese New YearSecular holiday
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    Wednesday february 14, 2024Valentine's Daycards/flowers
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    Wednesday february 14, 2024Chinese New YearSecular holiday
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    Thursday february 15, 2024Chinese New YearSecular holiday
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    Friday february 16, 2024Chinese New YearSecular holiday
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    Saturday february 17, 2024Chinese New YearSecular holiday
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    Sunday february 18, 2024WORKING DAYSecular holiday
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    Saturday february 24, 2024Lantern FestivalEvents, celebrations...
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    Friday march 8, 2024Women's Day - 1/2 day for working womencards/flowers
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    Tuesday march 12, 2024Parliament recess (end)Special Events
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    Tuesday march 12, 2024Arbor Daycards/flowers
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    Thursday april 4, 2024Tomb-Sweeping DayBuddhism (Vajrayana)
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    Friday april 5, 2024Tomb-Sweeping DayBuddhism (Vajrayana)
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    Saturday april 6, 2024Tomb-Sweeping DayBuddhism (Vajrayana)
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    Sunday april 7, 2024WORKING DAYSecular holiday
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    Sunday april 21, 2024F1 Grand PrixSports events
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    Sunday april 21, 2024China Import and Export Fair (Canton Fair)Tradeshows
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    Tuesday april 23, 2024Auto ChinaTradeshows
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    Wednesday april 24, 2024National Day of Space FlightSpecial Events
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    Sunday april 28, 2024WORKING DAYSecular holiday
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    Wednesday may 1, 2024Labor Day/May DaySecular holiday
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    Thursday may 2, 2024Public holidaySecular holiday
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    Friday may 3, 2024Public holidaySecular holiday
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    Saturday may 4, 2024Public holidaySecular holiday
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    Saturday may 11, 2024WORKING DAYSecular holiday
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    Sunday may 12, 2024Mothers' Daycards/flowers
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    Saturday may 18, 2024The Great Wall MarathonSports events
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    Tuesday may 28, 2024SIAL ChinaTradeshows
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    Public holiday

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    Saturday december 30, 2023
    Secular holiday :

    New Year's Day

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    Monday january 1, 2024
    Secular holiday : The world's most widely celebrated holiday, New Years was set on January 1 by Julius Caesar because that was the date the Roman consuls took over their duties. Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday

    Harbin China International Ice and Snow Festival

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    Friday january 5, 2024
    Culture : Www.icefestivalharbin.com/ Lasts 1 month -

    WORKING DAY

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    Sunday february 4, 2024
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    Chinese New Year’s Eve

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    Friday february 9, 2024
    Secular holiday : Employers who require employees to work during the holiday must pay three times the normal wages

    Chinese New Year

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    Saturday february 10, 2024
    Secular holiday : At New Year during the night, the Jade Emperor conveyed all animals. Only 12 showed up. To thank them, Buddha dedicated one symbolic year per visitor. Each new born would inherit the relevant animal's characteristics. Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday

    Chinese New Year

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    Monday february 12, 2024
    Secular holiday : The Chinese calendar combines lunar and solar movements. The lunar cycle is about 29.5 days. To match the solar calendar, an extra month is added once every few years (seven years out of a 19-year cycle). Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday

    Chinese New Year

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    Tuesday february 13, 2024
    Secular holiday : The Chinese calendar combines lunar and solar movements. The lunar cycle is about 29.5 days. To match the solar calendar, an extra month is added once every few years (seven years out of a 19-year cycle). Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday

    Valentine's Day

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    Wednesday february 14, 2024
    cards/flowers : Introduced by Pope Gelasus in 498, perhaps in response to a local Roman tradition of lovers writing their names on an urn in February

    Chinese New Year

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    Wednesday february 14, 2024
    Secular holiday : The Chinese calendar combines lunar and solar movements. The lunar cycle is about 29.5 days. To match the solar calendar, an extra month is added once every few years (seven years out of a 19-year cycle). Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday

    Chinese New Year

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    Thursday february 15, 2024
    Secular holiday : The Chinese calendar combines lunar and solar movements. The lunar cycle is about 29.5 days. To match the solar calendar, an extra month is added once every few years (seven years out of a 19-year cycle). Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday

    Chinese New Year

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    Friday february 16, 2024
    Secular holiday : The Chinese calendar combines lunar and solar movements. The lunar cycle is about 29.5 days. To match the solar calendar, an extra month is added once every few years (seven years out of a 19-year cycle). Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday

    Chinese New Year

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    Saturday february 17, 2024
    Secular holiday : The Chinese calendar combines lunar and solar movements. The lunar cycle is about 29.5 days. To match the solar calendar, an extra month is added once every few years (seven years out of a 19-year cycle). Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday

    WORKING DAY

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    Sunday february 18, 2024
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    Lantern Festival

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    Saturday february 24, 2024
    Culture : Called Chap Go Meh, Yuan Xiao Jie, Yuen Siu or Shangyuan. First full moon after the Chinese New Year - also known as Chinese Valentine’s Day.

    Women's Day - 1/2 day for working women

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    Friday march 8, 2024
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    Parliament recess (end)

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    Tuesday march 12, 2024
    Special Events :

    Arbor Day

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    Tuesday march 12, 2024
    cards/flowers : Tree-Planting Day

    Tomb-Sweeping Day

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    Thursday april 4, 2024
    Buddhism (Vajrayana) : Traditional celebration since the second century B.C. Considered an unlucky day for business. Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday

    Tomb-Sweeping Day

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    Friday april 5, 2024
    Buddhism (Vajrayana) : Traditional celebration since the second century B.C. Considered an unlucky day for business. Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday

    Tomb-Sweeping Day

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    Saturday april 6, 2024
    Buddhism (Vajrayana) : Traditional celebration since the second century B.C. Considered an unlucky day for business. Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday

    WORKING DAY

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    Sunday april 7, 2024
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    F1 Grand Prix

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    Sunday april 21, 2024
    Sports events : Www.formula1.com
    in Shanghai
    2024 edition confirmed

    China Import and Export Fair (Canton Fair)

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    Sunday april 21, 2024
    Tradeshows : Https://www.cantonfair.net/ lasts 2 weeks - 2024 edition NOT confirmed

    Auto China

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    Tuesday april 23, 2024
    Tradeshows : Lasts 1 week - https://autoshanghai.auto-fairs.com/ in Shanghai 2024 edition NOT confirmed

    National Day of Space Flight

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    Wednesday april 24, 2024
    Special Events : On April 24, 1970, China launched its first man-made earth satellite, Dongfanghong-1, making China the fifth country then to launch a domestically produced satellite using domestically produced rockets (the other four countries were Russia, the US, France and Japan)

    WORKING DAY

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    Sunday april 28, 2024
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    Labor Day/May Day

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    Wednesday may 1, 2024
    Secular holiday : Chicago, Saturday May 1st, 1886: 350,000 workers go on strike to call for an 8-hour working day. Industries are paralyzed nationwide. On Monday, as demonstrations go on, the police open fire. On Tuesday, Chicago is again on strike. Following a bomb launched against them, the police shoot again. 12 dead, of which 7 policemen. 8 anarchists will be condemned and executed. In 1889, the Socialist International Movement met in Paris and declared this day international workers' day . The Soviets will follow suit, just as the Nazis. In France, under the Vichy regime (1940-1944), the celebration is renamed Labour Day .

    Public holiday

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    Thursday may 2, 2024
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    Public holiday

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    Friday may 3, 2024
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    Public holiday

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    Saturday may 4, 2024
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    WORKING DAY

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    Saturday may 11, 2024
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    Mothers' Day

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    Sunday may 12, 2024
    cards/flowers : Mother’s day has evolved in many countries in different ways. This is because mother’s day has different origins in different countries and therefore occurs on different days in the year. One school of thought claims that this day emerged from the custom of mother worship in ancient Greece. Mother worship which kept a festival to Cybele, a great mother of gods, and Rhea, the wife of Cronus, was held on March 15 to March 18 around Asia Minor. They insist that this custom spread around the world. Mothering Sunday is the celebration of motherhood in the United Kingdom. It is also known as Mid-lent Sunday, Rose Sunday and Laetare Sunday. It originally comes from the Victorian practice of allowing servants to return home to visit their mothers on this day. In the United States, Julia Ward Howe (May 27, 1819 - October 17, 1910) was a prominent American abolitionist, social activist, and poet. Howe’s Battle Hymn of the Republic was first published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1862 and quickly became one of the most popular songs for the Union during the American Civil War. After the war she focused her activities on the causes of Pacifism and women’s suffrage. In 1870 she was the first to proclaim Mother’s Day, with her Mother’s Day Proclamation. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson approved Mother’s Day in 1914

    The Great Wall Marathon

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    Saturday may 18, 2024
    Sports events : Www.great-wall-marathon.com/ 2024 edition confirmed

    SIAL China

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    Tuesday may 28, 2024
    Tradeshows : Www.sialchina.com/ in Shanghai 2024 edition confirmed