Statutory National Holidays 2022
China’s General Office of the State Council has released Circular No. 11 “Notification of Holiday Arrangements in 2022” laying out the official national holiday schedule for 2022 as follows:
| Holiday | Days off in 2022 | Adjusted working days in 2022 |
| New year | January 1-3 | |
| Spring Festival/Chinese New Year | January 31- February 6 | January 29 & 30 (Saturday & Sunday) |
| Qingming Festival | April 3-5 | April 2 (Saturday) |
| Labour day | April 30 -May 4 | April 24 (Sunday) and May 7 (Saturday) |
| Dragon Boat Festival | June 3-5 | |
| Mid-Autumn Festival | September 10-12 | |
| National Day | October 1-7 | October 8 & 9 (Saturday & Sunday) |
Note: for work on January 1, February 1-3, April 5, May 1, June 3, September 10 and October 1-3, employees must be paid three times their normal wage. For work on January 2-3, February 4-6, April 3-4, 30, May 2-4, June 4-5, September 11-12, October 4-7, their salary is double their regular wage.
The adjusted working days (Saturdays and Sundays) are additional official workdays in China to compensate for long holiday breaks and are to be paid at the regular wage rate.