When is the summer vacation this year 2023?

2023 Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province: It is expected that primary and secondary schools will have summer vacation from July 11, 2023.

Summer vacation is an extended summer break for school students and teachers around the world. Summer vacation refers to the period of about one to two months of school vacation from July to August or January to February. The vacation time varies depending on the country's hemisphere location. Summer vacation is also one of the peak tourist seasons, and people often choose this time to go on a pleasant family trip.

In China, schools usually divide each academic year into two semesters. The last semester started in mid-August or early September in the autumn and ended around the end of January (or mid-January, mostly early January in Northeast China) of the following year. At this time, schools begin to have a holiday, which is in the cold winter in China. It is called winter vacation. Winter vacation usually ends on the 15th day of the first lunar month.

The next semester starts from mid-February in spring (the 16th day of the first lunar month) and ends in early or mid-July. Schools start to have holidays again, and this holiday is in the hottest summer in China. The summer heat is approaching. People are called summer vacation. Nowadays, most schools' summer vacation ends at the end of August, and in some places it is mid-August.

Summer vacation is not only the longest break of the year for students, it is also the season when many companies launch new products. For example, many film companies will launch new films during the summer vacation to attract young people on vacation. Pixar, DreamWorks, and Disney will launch new cartoons during the vacation to attract teenagers.

The significance of summer vacation:

1. Promote children’s social cognition, natural cognition and self-awareness: children can use vacation time to contact and understand society, nature and themselves , thereby promoting the understanding of these three aspects.

2. Exercise children's body and mind: Summer vacation allows children to have enough time to rest and relax. It also allows children to participate in some outdoor activities and sports to exercise their body and mind.

3. Help children preview the new courses for the next semester: Summer vacation is a good time to preview the new courses for the next semester. Children can use this time to preview the courses for the next semester and lay the foundation for their studies in the next semester.

4. Enrich children’s experience: Children can use their summer vacation time to travel, participate in social practice and other activities to enrich their experience and experience.

5. Relieve children’s fatigue and stress: Children will face a lot of stress and fatigue during the semester. Summer vacation can give children enough time to rest and relax and relieve these stress and fatigue.