affected Saturdays and Sundays as the weekdays that the weekend has been swapped with. Schedules are released late in the year prior and might change during the year. The following is a graphical schematic of how the weekend shifting works. Weekend shifting scheme (since 2014) Spring Festival Shift the Saturdays and Sundays nearby to make a 7-day holiday. People may need to work for 6 or 7 continuous days before or after the holiday. National Day (not near Mid-Autumn Festival) Shift the Saturdays and Sundays nearby to make a 7-day holiday. The holiday is from 1 to 7 October. People may need to work for 6 or 7 continuous days before or after the holiday. New Year, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Labour Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival (not near National Day) Wednesday: No weekend shifting. The holiday is only 1 day long. This is to prevent people from working for 7 continuous days since 2014. Sometimes shift the Sundays nearby to make a 4-day holiday. People may need to work for 6 continuous days after the holiday. Tuesday or Thursday: Shift the Saturdays and Sundays nearby to make a 3-day holiday. People may need to work for 6 continuous days before or after the holiday. Saturday or Sunday: The public holiday is transferred to Monday. Additional holidays for specific social groups In addition to these holidays, applicable to the whole population, there are four official public holidays applicable to specific sections of the population: The closeness of Labor Day and Youth Day resulted in an unexpectedly long break for schools in 2008 - the Youth Day half-holiday entitlement had been largely forgotten because it has been subsumed into the Golden Week. Traditional holiday scheme Ethnic minorities' holidays There are public holidays celebrated by certain ethnic minorities in certain regions, which are decided by local governments. The following are holidays at the provincial level. The following are traditional holidays at the prefectural level, and there are more at lower-level divisions, i.e. county-level. In addition, the following autonomous prefectures celebrate their founding date ( or ). Generally, the government takes one day off to all people working in such prefectures. Novel holidays Some Chinese young adults have begun to celebrate 11 November as Singles Day () because of the many ones (1s) and many singles in the date. Serfs Emancipation Day (March 28) was established in Tibet in 2009. See also List