The May Day Labor Day holiday was launched, and this year’s holiday has been adjusted to five days, but it was met with public grievances. Some analysis pointed out that although the May Day holiday can stimulate consumption, but tossing labor and make the quality of tourism reduced.
This year’s May Day holiday from May 1 to 5, instead of April 25 (Sunday) and May 8 (Saturday) to work, after the transfer so that this year’s May Day holiday from the previous three days to five days, becoming the longest since the abolition of May Day Golden Week in 2008 May Day holiday. However, the public does not seem to buy it, pointing out that “in fact only one day of vacation, but ruin two weekends”.
For people who usually work in the workplace “996” “007” struggle, the weekend off time has become a hot topic point. “Many netizens expressed their dissatisfaction with the transfer, in addition to the two weekends before and after the transfer, the need to work continuously for up to a week, “May Day Labor Day tossed but the workers themselves”. In addition, there are also voices that “May Fourth Youth Day” should have been a half-day holiday for young people under 28 years old, so the May Day holiday is actually only a half-day holiday.
Beijing political commentator Hua Po, in an interview with reporters, believes that the supporting measures for the transfer of vacations are not perfect, and the authorities should plan a new way out: “Policy-wise, we still need to come up with some new ways, it’s not a long term solution to concentrate on letting people go out like this, but there is no way to cancel (long holidays) easily.”
Wu Bihu, director of the Center for Tourism Research and Planning at Peking University’s School of Urban and Environmental Studies, said in an interview with Chinese media that the consideration behind the holiday transfer is to “create conditions for people to go out. According to external analyses, the official official holiday was rescheduled after the epidemic slowed down, not only to allow people to return home to visit their relatives, but also to promote tourism and stimulate consumption.
He Jiangbing, a Chinese financial scholar, analyzed the May Day holiday from an economic perspective. He believes that China’s epidemic control is relatively stable, and the policy’s consideration is to expand domestic demand and make up for the impact on the tourism market due to the Communist Party’s virus epidemic.
“Last year, because of the epidemic, tourism and catering were hit very hard,” He Jiangbing told reporters, “this time may want to restore tourism confidence, the effect (compared to the previous) will be obvious.”
Chaos caused by the massive late arrival at Beijing West Station on May 1 this year (online photo)
The Ministry of Culture and Tourism announced that the total number of tourists on the first day of the May Day holiday was about 23.197 million, with tourism revenue of about RMB 9.77 billion, and the Chinese Ministry of Transport also expected the passenger flow to reach 265 million.
For example, on the first day of transportation at Beijing West Station, the power supply of high-speed trains was interrupted, causing many trains to miss their schedule and leaving many passengers stranded; in addition, there were also rumors that the tickets of some scenic spots were speculated and prices were inflated while the tickets were hard to find.
Hua Po told reporters that China’s tourism industry is flawed in policy and service management is too inadequate to cope with such crowds.
“Hundreds of millions of travelers flock to the city, especially the traffic, the amount of attractions are under great pressure …… travel by definition is leisure, in China speaking may be very tired, very tired.” Hua Po said.
This year’s May Day Beijing West Station was late causing chaos on a large scale (web photo)
And the May Day controversy is not only that. It was revealed on the Internet that high school students from Jianou High School in Fujian Province launched a protest at the school, holding up the slogan “Give me back my legal holiday”, allegedly because the school shortened the legal five-day holiday to three days. There are rumors on the internet that the students who took the lead may be punished by the school.
On May 1, many students broke through the blockade and forced their way out of the university. The university’s high-handed control methods no longer work,” Fu Shenqi, a Chinese scholar in the United States, told reporters. In the video taken by the students, some of them turned around and encouraged other students to boldly leave the school, and some even raised their thumbs and shouted their approval.
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