Table 2.

Distributions of Economic and Social Demands of the Golden Week Holiday Policy in 2007.

Economic demands	Total counts: 64a	Social demands	Total counts: 56a
Demand category	Count	Demand category	Count
(1) Balanced development of various economic sectors	30	(1) promoting traditional Chinese culture	27
negative economic effects of tourism during golden week	12	enhancing awareness of traditional Chinese festivals	7
balanced development of the finance sector	6	counteracting rivalry ‘patenting’ for Chinese cultural by other countries	5
positive economic effects of tourism during golden week	5	relative cultural values of different Chinese festivals	5
balanced development of the retail industries	3	improving identification with the Chinese authorities by overseas Chinese	4
balanced development of the transportation industries	3	improving identification with the Chinese authorities by Chinese Nationals	3
(2) consistency with the development level of the economy	24	(3) realizing human rights to leisure time	17
maintaining low labor costs in China	8	increasing the total amount of annual public holidays	6
maintaining productivity of Chinese labor forces	6	tackling current lax practice son paid leaves among different sectors	4
regulating unionized activities	3	corresponding to with demands of international organizations	3
(4) consideration of macroeconomic conditions	10	(2) learning from international practices	12
shifting demographic features of the workforce	3	practices from other Confucius societies on Chinese festival vacations	5
flow of immigrant workers	3	practices from other countries on vacation arrangements	3
international economic competitions among developing countries	3

Sources: developed for this study.

^aOnly demands with at least three counts are listed.