January 1 New Year’s Day January 26 Laba Festival [the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month] January 28 International Leprosy Day [the last Sunday in January] February February 2 World Wetlands Day 2 February 11th, Off Year [the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month] February 14th Valentine’s Day February 17th New Year’s Eve [the last day of the lunar year] February 18th Spring Festival [the first day of the lunar year] February 19th Miao Huashan Festival [the second to seventh day of the first lunar month] March 1st International Seal Day March 3rd National Ear Love Day March 4th Mu Nao Zongge [the fifteenth day of the first lunar month] March 4th Lantern Festival [lunar calendar] The 15th day of the first lunar month] March 5th, Memorial Day for Learning from Lei Feng, March 8th, International Women’s Day, March 11th, International Day of Dignity and Respect, March 12th, Chinese Arbor Day, March 14th, International Police Day, March 15th International Consumers Rights Day, March 16th, Hand in Hand to the Poor Friends, National Day of Unified Action, March 19th, Zhonghe Festival (the birthday of the sun) [the first day of the second lunar month], March 20th, Aluwoluo Festival, March 20th, Dragon Head-Heading Festival [The second day of the second lunar month] March 21 World Forest Day March 21 World Children’s Song Day March 21 International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination March 21 World Sleep Day March 22 World Water Day March 23 World Meteorological Day March 24th World Tuberculosis Prevention and Control Day March 25th Safety Education Day for Primary and Secondary School Students March 25th Spring Society Day [the fifth fifth day after the beginning of spring] March 26th Bai March Street [the 10th to 20th day of the third lunar month 1] March 30th Flower Festival (Flower God's Day) [February 12 of the lunar calendar] March 30th Good Friday [the Friday before Easter] April April 1st International April Fool's Day April 4th Cold Food Festival [105 days after the winter solstice and one day before Qingming] April 5 Qingming Festival April 6 Easter [the first Sunday after the vernal equinox] April 6 Guanyin Bodhisattva’s birthday [the nineteenth day of the second lunar month] April 7 World Health Day April 11 World Parkinson's Disease Day April 13 Dai Water Splashing Festival [between April 13 and April 15 in the Gregorian calendar] April 19 Shangsi Festival (Girl's Day) [the third day of the third month in the lunar calendar] April 21st National Entrepreneurship Day April 22nd World Earth Day April 22nd World Children’s Day [Fourth Sunday] April 23rd World Book and Copyright Day April 25th National Vaccination Awareness Day April 26th International Secretary's Day April 26 World Intellectual Property Day May May 1 International Labor Day May 4 China Youth Day May 5 National Iodine Deficiency Disease Awareness Day May 5 National Eye Care Day May 8 World Red Cross Day May 8th World Asthma Day [Tuesday of the second week] May 12th International Nurses Day May 13th Mother’s Day [second Sunday] May 15th International Day of Families May 15th International Milk Day [ Third Tuesday] May 17 World Telecommunications Day May 18 International Museum Day May 20 National Disability Day [Third Sunday] May 20 Chinese Student Nutrition Day May 20 National Breastfeeding Awareness Day 5 May 22nd International Biodiversity Day May 24th Buddha’s Birthday [the eighth day of the fourth lunar month] May 31st World No Tobacco Day June 1st International Children’s Day June 5th World Environment Day (1004) June 6th National Eye Care Day June 9th Chinese Cultural Heritage Day [the second Saturday in June] June 17th World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought June 17th Father’s Day [the third Sunday] June 19th Dragon Boat Festival Festival [the fifth day of the fifth lunar month] June 20 World Refugee Day June 23 International Olympic Day June 25 National Land Day June 26 International Anti-Drug Day June 26 United Nations Charter Day July 1 Hong Kong Return Memorial Day July 1st, Founding Day of the Communist Party of China July 7th International Cooperative Day [First Saturday] July 7th Memorial Day of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression July 11th World Population Day July 11th World Maritime Day 7 August 26th is the founding day of Esperanto. August 1st is Guanyin’s Enlightenment Day [the 19th day of the 6th lunar month]. Fourteenth] August 6th Lotus Viewing Festival (Lotus Birthday) [Lunar Calendar June 24th] August 6th Miao New Year Eating Festival August 6th Torch Festival [Lunar Calendar June 24th] August 19th Chinese Valentine’s Day Festival [the seventh day of the seventh lunar month] August 27th Ghost Festival [Ghost Festival] [the fifteenth day of the seventh month in the lunar calendar] September 3rd Victory Day of the Anti-Japanese War September 8th International Literacy Day September 10th Chinese Teachers’ Day September 10th Ksitigarbha Festival [the 30th day of the seventh lunar month] September 10th World Suicide Prevention Day September 16th International Ozone Layer Protection Day September 18th China’s National Day of Shame September 20th National Teeth Love Day September 20th Nationwide Citizen Moral Promotion Day, September 20, National Teeth Love Day, September 21, International Peace Day, September 22, Car Free Day, September 25, Mid-Autumn Festival

[August 15th of the lunar calendar] September 27th World Tourism Day September 28th World Teachers’ Day (Confucius’ birthday) September 30th International Day of the Deaf [last Sunday] October 1st World Architecture Day [first Monday] October 1st International Housing Day (Habitat Day) [First Monday] October 1st National Day October 1st International Elderly Day October 4th World Animal Day October 8th National Hypertension October 9 World Postal Day October 10 International Day for Disaster Reduction [Second Wednesday] October 10 World Mental Health Day October 11 World Sight Day [Second Thursday] October 13 World Health Day 10 October 13th, the birthday of China’s Young Pioneers, October 14th International Music Festival [mid-October], October 14th World Standards Day, October 15th, International Day for the Blind, October 16th, World Food Day, October 17th, International Day for the Eradication of Poverty October 18th Double Ninth Festival [Respect for the Aged] [ninth day of the ninth lunar month] October 18th World Traditional Medicine Day October 24th United Nations Day October 28th National Men’s Health Day October 29th Guanyin Monk Day [the tenth day of the ninth lunar month] 9] October 31, Halloween, November 7, October Revolution Memorial Day, November 8, Chinese Journalists’ Day, November 9, China Fire Protection Awareness Day, November 10, World Youth Day, November 10, Ancestor Worship Day [Lunar Calendar] October 1st] November 11th Singles’ Day November 11th International Science and Peace Week [the week of the 11th] November 14th World Diabetes Day November 17th International University Student Day November 22nd Thanksgiving [the fourth Thursday] ]November 25th International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women December 1st World AIDS Day December 3rd International Day of Persons with Disabilities December 4th China’s Legal Propaganda Day December 5th International Volunteer Day December 7th International Civil Aviation Day December 9th World Football Day December 9th International Children’s Radio and Television Day [Second Sunday] December 10th World Human Rights Day December 13th Nanjing Massacre Memorial Day December 20th Macau Handover Memorial Day 12 December 20th, December 21st, International Basketball Day, December 22nd, Winter Solstice Festival, December 24th, Christmas Eve, December 25th, Christmas Day