The Chinese work & holiday schedule is a special one indeed! First off, the mixing of both solar and lunar calendar holidays to form the modern ‘Public or New Calendar’ (公历/新历) is unique in itself. We also often see this referred to as the ‘lunisolar calendar‘. Secondly, and directly related to the first, is that […]
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Special Working Days! If you’re new to Chinese work culture, I’m sorry to break this news to you – China has nationally scheduled make-up days around holidays… on the weekends. That’s right, every year there are a handful of Saturdays and Sundays, right around bigger national holidays, that convert over to workdays. There are 8
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Behold! Our simple yet mighty 2024 public holiday and special working days calendar. It is directly based on Beijing’s announcement of the holiday schedule on October 25th, 2023 via gov.cn: Here’s a breakdown in text with holiday names and dates~ 1. New Year’s Day: January 1st is a holiday. 2. Spring Festival: There will be
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In this article, we cover two key family-related leaves and benefits for workers in China. This includes Nursing/Elderly Care Leave (for caretaking of elderly family members) and annual Childcare/Parental Leave (for parents with Children 3 years and under). For those curious about maternity, paternity, or marriage leave for new parents, please check out our coverage of
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What You Will Learn We’re going to break down 2023 data sets from two of China’s largest HR companies: Liepin & 51job. They are both among China’s biggest job portals and have some of the largest amounts of local, first-hand, high-quality data points. It’s important to note that the data reflects recruited salaries, or the publicly listed salary information that companies advertise
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Ganji (赶集网 / Gǎnjí wǎng) is a giant classifieds platform in China that has gone through quite a successful journey. Since its founding in 2005, the firm grew to a valuation of over a billion $USD by 2015! While it may be easiest to first compare it to Craigslist in the US, you’ll soon see
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The Chinese Resume! While it shares a lot with the international resume, it has a decidedly different set of standards as well. Today we dive into 11 unique differences that you’ll find on most Chinese CVs. If you happen to be the chosen one on your team combing through these CVs, check out our related
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