China Has Gone and Created a Brand New Holiday in September This Year

Jump for joy, there won’t be any work on September 3 this year as China has just created a new holiday to commemorate the end of World War II, otherwise known in China as the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.

The holiday actually means you’ll get three days off work: Thursday, September 3; Friday, September 4; and Saturday, September 5. However, in fine Chinese holiday tradition, you’ll have to work on Sunday, September 6 to make up for all that time off.

This year, Mid-Autumn Festival (September 27) falls on a Sunday, so people wondered if there would be a make-up day thrown in there somewhere. This, they think, is it.

This year marks the 70th anniversary of the end of the second world war. President Xi Jinping represented China at a parade commemorating the event in Russia over the weekend, the largest ever held by the former Communist state.

There’s no word yet if this new holiday will become a permanent one in the years to come.

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