In China, the State Council has announced the dates of official holidays for 2015.
Significant changes have been made particularly in relation to New Year's Day and Chinese Spring Festival holidays.
Excluding Lunar New Year's Eve from the list of major holidays earlier wasn't very popular; therefore for 2015, the Spring Festival holiday will start on new year's eve and last seven days.
The government has also decided to extend the New Year's holiday from January the 1st to 3rd.