According to the labor laws, Chinese New Year would attract 3 days off, two days for the National Day celebration, and one day for May Day. Now, with the extended holidays, the brides and grooms and their families no longer have to submit a request for personal leave. The long holidays also enables friends and relatives from afar to attend the weddings. Again, the costs of the wedding with the banquets, gifts and attires would certainly boost the domestic consumption quite significantly. Anticipating rising income levels and in anticipation of people's needs for the future, the development of the latter 3 economic activities relate to cultural, educational, and sporting activities.
Tourism is considered an essential part of the cultural activities.
As far as the trillions of dollars spent on sporting enterprises, China also expects to attract huge domestic and foreign investment in the areas relating to sports. In order to be consistent with international labor practice, Chinese labor laws have included the requirement for employers to allow annual paid holidays according to employee's service years. In addition, it is hoped that these rotating holiday-makers would help tourist attraction achieve a smoother inflow of income. During the past few years, at least 100 theme parks have been set up along the 300km stretch from Nanjing to Shanghai, only to go bankrupt very quickly. Of the very few that have managed to survive, the operating results have been well below healthy levels.