Hard work, long hours fuelled China’s rise. Now, it weighs longer breaks
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China, one of the world’s hardest-working countries, is adopting incentives to increase time off – and potentially boost consumer spending.

Whether in China’s urban centres or its remote rural areas, Christmas is not typically celebrated with the fanfare seen in the West. On the mainland, December 25 is not even a public holiday, with the lion’s share of enthusiasm reserved for the traditional Lunar New Year period beginning in January or February. Zhang Li, who lives in a pastoral section of the Inner Mongolia autonomous region in the country’s north, was no exception. But this year things have changed, thanks in part to a new…

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