Why cancel the national holiday? When will paid leave be implemented?

Why cancel the national holiday? When will paid leave be implemented

China Internet Affairs: No more holidays? Kidnapping? Paid vacation for tourism is closer?

Xinhuanet Beijing New Media Special Telegram on September 16 (Reporter Lu Chang) On the 15th, the Chinese government website announced that the State Council has approved the establishment of the State Council Inter-ministerial Joint Conference on Tourism Work system, abolished the National Holiday Office, which has been in operation for 14 years, and merged its functions into the State Council Inter-ministerial Joint Conference on Tourism Work.

High-level convener, broader departments, higher standards? According to industry experts, the establishment of the joint meeting represents a change in the concept of tourism development at the national level. Holidays are no longer kidnapped? ?Travel, will the implementation of the long-awaited paid vacation system be accelerated?

Why were the national holidays cancelled?

In June 2000, in order to cope with the gold (1236.00, - 0.70, -0.06%), the State Council took the lead in establishing the National Holiday Tourism Inter-ministerial Coordination Conference. ?In addition, the annual holiday arrangement is first decided by the State Council, and then the National Holiday Office proposes a holiday adjustment plan accordingly during an inter-ministerial coordination meeting. The State Council will ultimately release the results of holiday arrangements. ? Cai Jiming, leader of the holiday reform research group at Tsinghua University and professor at the Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences, said.

Since 2013, from “choosing one of three” to collect holiday arrangements to “announced that there will be no holiday on New Year’s Eve”, the National Holiday Office has been constantly involved in the field of public opinion. As soon as the news of the cancellation came out, many netizens shouted: Should the holidays that did not give New Year's Eve a holiday have been canceled long ago? Some netizens also had doubts: Why should they be cancelled? Will the holiday arrangements change?

? Public opinion is right The concern of the National Holiday Office actually stems from dissatisfaction with the shortage of long holidays, but they vent their anger on the Holiday Office. Liu Simin, a well-known tourism expert and special researcher at the Tourism Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said that after the emergence of Golden Week in 1999, new requirements were put forward for tourism management, so an emergency mechanism such as holiday management was established. At first, this coordination mechanism played a relatively large role. After a few years of operation, coordination among relevant departments before the Golden Week has become the norm. The role of the National Holiday Office is no longer so obvious and needs innovation. ?

Cai Jiming believes that my country’s previous holiday system was mainly to serve the tourism economy. Holidays kidnapped tourism, and the tourism industry was simply bundled with holidays, causing the constant adjustment of holidays to cause dissatisfaction among the masses.

What information does the establishment of a new system reveal?

According to the approval of the State Council, the newly established inter-ministerial joint meeting on tourism under the State Council will be convened by the leading comrade in charge of tourism under the State Council. Member units include relevant departments of the State Council, including departments directly related to the tourism industry, such as the Ministry of Transport, and departments that support the tourism industry, such as the Ministry of Culture, the Food and Drug Administration, etc.

?China’s tourism industry is a high-profile, wide-ranging, and comprehensive industry that requires the joint efforts of the entire society, including the joint efforts of various ministries and commissions. ?Liu Simin said,?The State Council's approval document proposed that the Holiday Office be abolished, but its functions were incorporated into the coordination mechanism for tourism work, with the Vice Premier of the State Council as the convener. If the joint meeting is used to coordinate and solve problems encountered in the development of the tourism industry More efficient, which is also one of the manifestations of the reform and development of the tourism industry. ?

The reporter learned that the functions of the Inter-Ministerial Joint Conference on Tourism Work of the State Council include: under the leadership of the State Council, overall coordination of national tourism work. Provide macro guidance for national tourism work; propose guidelines and policies to promote the reform and development of the tourism industry; coordinate and resolve major issues in the reform and development of the tourism industry; and study other important tasks in the reform and development of the tourism industry.

Industry experts said that the newly established inter-ministerial joint meeting of the State Council on Tourism Work will play a more important role in the implementation of the Tourism Law and the "Several Opinions of the State Council on Promoting the Reform and Development of the Tourism Industry." Liu Simin believes that statutory holiday arrangements are only part of the tourism industry, and what is more important is the future reform and development of China's tourism industry. Although the holiday office has been cancelled, such an effective working mechanism has not disappeared.

Is the implementation of paid leave closer?

For many years, how to arrange holidays during statutory holidays has been a hot topic in my country’s tourism industry. However, people's ideas such as restoring the May Day Golden Week and increasing the number of legal holidays have not been reflected in reality. Experts believe that the State Council has established an inter-ministerial joint meeting on tourism. At present, my country's holidays are scattered and concentrated and will continue to be parallel for a long time. The establishment of the joint meeting will play a positive role in the realization of goals such as the basic implementation of the paid leave system in 2020.

Liu Simin believes that "Golden Week" and paid vacations are two ways to solve the lack of long vacations. One can satisfy the whole family's collective travel, and the other can meet individual travel. ?If dispersed long vacations such as paid vacations are more ideal and can better meet our needs, then canceling Golden Week is okay, but the implementation of paid vacations is very difficult.

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Cai Jiming believes that the current public attitude towards Golden Week and paid holidays is waxing and waning. The establishment of the joint meeting will be very powerful in promoting the implementation of paid holidays, because the May Day holiday in 2008 After the long holiday was cancelled, the local tourism department immediately called for the resumption of long holidays. Over-reliance on the tourism economy brought by holidays actually means that the thinking has not changed, and the thinking of holiday, kidnapping and tourism is still the same. ?

The "2014 Chinese Tourist Willingness Survey Report" released by Ctrip.com at the beginning of this year shows that 80% of tourists hope to take paid vacations and travel during off-peak periods, and only a few choose to travel during Golden Week and Spring Festival. Cai Jiming believes that the inter-ministerial joint meeting on tourism under the State Council will comply with policies and public opinion and focus on overall planning and coordination of problems encountered in the development of the tourism industry, including holiday arrangements.

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