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Many complain of trai c jams, overcrowding during holidays By SUN XIAOCHEN sunxiaochen@chinadaily.儲存com.cn Zhang Ji usually plays bad- minton with his colleagues on Saturdays at the Beijing University of Technology sta- dium.But not this week, because they have to work according to a revised holiday schedule.“h is Saturday has become a working day because of the week-long National Day holi- day,” said Zhang, who works for a State-owned oil com- pany.Zhang is not the only one annoyed about the Golden Week arrangement that means people have to work extra weekends in exchange for the seven-day break.Under this year’s schedule, i ve Saturdays and seven Sun- days have become working days to accommodate longer holidays.An online survey by the China National Tourism Administration found that nearly 60 percent of the people interviewed said they would like to see the National Day Golden Week abolished, citing trai c jams and overcrowding during the holiday.Cai Jiming, a professor at Tsinghua University and the head of a research group on holidays, supports abolishing the current arrangement.“It has broken people’s dai- ly routine on a weekly basis,”Cai said. “It also violates the public’s legal right to work only five days a week. The current practice does not give you extra days of . It just puts separate days of together to make for mini storageonger holidays.”Nearly 40 percent of those surveyed said they wanted the Golden Week to remain, as it provides people with a rare long break for them to travel with their families.“I wouldn’t have the chance to take my children and parents sightseeing if it were not for this long holi- day,” said Lu Xi, a civil ser- vant who took her parents to Hong Kong during the National Day holiday week.h e China Tourism Acad- emy says the number of tour- ist trips during the October Golden Week reached 430 million, up 18 percent com- pared with the same period in 2012.Huge numbers of tourists have placed a heavy strain on roads, scenic spots and hotels.However, some experts suggest keeping the Golden Week, citing the lack of a l ex- ible holiday system.“I don’t think cancel- ing the current seven-day arrangement will help. It’sthe shortage of holidays that has forced the public to trav- el at the same time,” Zhang Hui, professor of tourism management at Beijing Jiao- tong University, told China Daily on Friday.With a seven-day break around the May Day holiday scrapped in 2008, Zhang said paid annual leave is one of the answers to the Golden Week chaos, but it hasn’t been wide- ly established so far.“With a l exible paid annu- al leave system in place, peo- ple could arrange their own travel plans without l ocking together.”SEE “HOLIDAYS” PAGE 4self storage