In the past, there was a very popular program called "May 17 Day Music", which may not be known to the younger generation now.
This shows that there used to be a seven-day holiday on May Day.
So why did it become the way of vacation now? It was because of the suggestion of an expert named Cai Jiming.
Cai Jiming graduated from Nankai University in Political Economy and is currently the director of the Center for Political Economy at Tsinghua University. To put it bluntly, he is an expert in economics.
In 2006, he proposed to split the May 17 holiday, which was officially implemented in 2008. Since then, there has been no "seven-day happiness" on May Day.
At one point, he even wanted to split up the eleventh holiday.
他在接受记者采访时说：“五一黄金周没有必要恢复，十一黄金周也应该在适当的时候取消，需要继续推动的是完善带薪休假制度。 He also stressed that Golden Week was forced for many people and was "taken on vacation". (China Youth Daily, March 12)
Speaking of it now, I still miss the May 17 holiday. Although these seven days are also compensated in it, but the holiday time is long, the whole seven days are still very cool, and it is also allowed to go abroad for a walk.
Now many netizens are dissatisfied with the May Day vacation system, but they can't help it.
In fact, it is useless to keep scolding all the time.
If everyone can "insist on taking a holiday and not going out, the consumption of rest at home is lower than usual." Then look at the effect, and the so-called economists will naturally be flexible.
If you can't do it, you will obediently accept the compensatory leave, otherwise why should the policy with such a good effect be changed?