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| University students line up to buy train tickets for New Year Holiday travel. |
The January 1st New Year is technically a one-day holiday in the Middle Kingdom. However, people are getting four consecutive days off for the holiday this year. Everyone has to work one day this weekend, then they work both days next weekend, to make up for the extra consecutive days off.
Almost all their holidays get this same kind of treatment. The consecutive days allow people enough time to travel, alleviating some of the pressure on public transportation at other holidays.
People here never get vacations during the year. People only get off work on holidays, which means everyone is off at the same time, which means holidays are always a horrible travel mess.
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