Nation worked up over days off
By Raymond Zhou | China Daily | Updated: 2013-12-07 06:53
The debate over the length and sum of public holidays belies the deeper causes of a weak private sector and decisions that should be made below the national level.
Calibrating the holiday schedule has been a discreet exercise in democracy, and people are realizing that there is no perfect choice, only an optimal one determined by a majority.
The recent online vote on the 2014 schedule of China's public holidays was enlightening in many ways. Most of all, it shows there is give and take in every decision. Here are the three choices proposed by the National Holiday Office on Nov 27:
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