Table 1.
Distributions of economic and social demands of the golden week holiday policy in 1999.
| Economic demands |
Total counts: 78a |
Social demands |
Total counts: 12a |
|---|---|---|---|
| Demand category | Count | Demand category | Count |
| (1) Stimulation of domestic consumption | 41 | (1) Celebration of the 50th anniversary of the PRC | 5 |
 Development of the real estate industry |
11 | (2) Successful implementation of the five-day working week since 1995 | 3 |
 Development of the information industry |
9 | ||
 Development of the automobile industry |
8 | ||
 Development of the tourism industry |
6 | ||
 Development of the retail industries |
3 | ||
| (2) Maintenance of export volume | 20 | ||
| maintaining low exchange rate of RMB |
7 | ||
| continuous impacts of the Asian financial crisis |
6 | ||
| maintaining export of labor-intensive products |
3 | ||
| (3) recognition of the development level of the Chinese economy | 17 | ||
| maintaining cheap labor in China |
6 | ||
| attracting foreign investment |
3 | ||
| intetests of mixed-ownership enterprises |
3 |
Sources: developed for this study.
a
Only demands with at least 3 counts are listed.