| "> | | | | completely to allow workers to go home to be with |
| One of the challenges of working in China is the | | | | their families. |
| national holiday system and coordinating a work | | | | Combine that with the fact that most European and |
| schedule with your customers around national | | | | American holidays do not overlap with Chinese |
| holidays. The three main national holidays are the | | | | holidays and you have a situation where production |
| Chinese New Year (also called the Lunar New Year), | | | | schedule management is critical on both sides. |
| May Holiday and National Day in October. Unlike many | | | | If you think about it, almost 40 percent of the year |
| western factories, where the holiday schedules are | | | | is taken up by holidays and weekends when China |
| staggered to maintain operations, holidays in China | | | | isn't working, the west isn't working or neither side is |
| mean something else: Factories often close | | | | working. |