英语口语-The Golden Week

英语口语-The Golden Week
a.Does the "Golden Week" system bring some opportunities to China?Illustrate them.
b.How about the pressure caused by it?
c.Should the "Golden Week" system be canceled?Or could you give some advice to solve this problem.
这是老师给我的口语作业。用英语回答这些问题。如不能全部也可单项回答！

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Chinese people currently enjoy 10 days of legal holidays. Three days each are given for the May Day, National Day and Spring Festival breaks. One day is given for New Year's Day.
The weekends on one side of the three main holidays are designated as two working days. It is normal practice to take those two days off during the following week making the May Day, National Day and Spring Festival holidays as seven consecutive days each. They are known as the "Golden Week" as the holidays gave people time to travel.
The proposal will increase the number of legal national holidays from 10 to 11 days.
New Year remains a one-day holiday. The Spring Festival remains a three-day holiday, but it will now start a day earlier from the eve of the Spring Festival, also known the lunar New Year.
The National Day golden week will remain unchanged.
The May Day golden week will be replaced by a one-day holiday.
Tomb-Sweeping Day, the Dragon-Boat Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival shall all become one-day national holidays.
The tradition of designating weekends on one side of the three main holidays as two working days still continues, so people enjoyseven consecutive days off. In future, New Year's Day, Tomb-Sweeping Day, May Day, the Dragon Boat Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival will become holidays of three days each.
Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, the Dragon Boat Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival are all lunar holidays, so their dates vary in the calendar (if a leap month is encountered, the legal holiday will fall on the first month). All other holidays are fixed dates on the calendar.
An official of the special panel said the new plan took into account the following five principles:
-- the number of legal holidays should accord with the current phase of economic and social development;
-- the legal holiday arrangement should help pass on traditional customs and culture;
-- the arrangement should minimize any negative effect on the economy and society;
-- the arrangement should reflect social justice, allowing all citizens to share the achievements of economic and social development;
-- the arrangement should fully consider citizen's rights to rest and travel.
In the wake of economic and social development Chinese people have been enjoying more days off.
Before 1995, citizens had 59 days off annually, including legal holidays and Sundays. The government added Saturday as a legal rest day in 1995, which increased the number of legal days off to 111.
The number increased to 114 when the country introduced the Golden Week holidays in 1999. The new legal holiday arrangement, when enacted, will bring the number of legal days off to 115.
"The new arrangement better respects people's right to rest, as there are now more holidays and they are spread through the year more reasonably," said the official.
He said the new arrangement will be enacted along with regulations on paid vacations. It will ensure that people have enough time to travel, yet won't be traveling all at the same time.
Employees can also arrange their personal and family lives in amore flexible way, the official said.
"Making traditional festivals legal holidays will help carry forward Chinese history and culture, benefit 1.3 billion Chinese citizens, help build a harmonious society and enhance the cohesion of the Chinese nation," said Ji Baocheng, a deputy to the National People's Congress (NPC) and president of Renmin University of China in Beijing.
China introduced the Golden Week holidays in a bid to boost domestic consumption. It was reported that tourism revenue increased from 14.1 billion yuan (1.76 billion U.S. dollars) during the initial 1999 National Day holiday to 64.2 billion yuan during the most recent Golden Week in October.
In 2001 alone, tourist numbers reached 780 million, much higher than the 1999 figure of 240 million, while outbound Chinese tourists rose to 12.13 million in 2001, a huge jump from three million in the early 1990s.
But after several years of experience and complaints about overcrowding, poor service, a scarcity of hotel rooms and damage to scenic spots, especially historic sites, during the Golden Week breaks this has spurred debate over the merits of the week-long holiday concept.
In 2004, Professor Ji Baocheng took the lead to submit a motion on making traditional festivals legal holidays at the NPC annual full session.
Last year, Cai Jiming, a Tsinghua University professor and a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), also proposed shortening the Golden Week holidays and distributing the days to celebrate four traditional festivals: the Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Day, Tomb-Sweeping Day and New Year's Eve.
During their research, the panel had investigated holiday arrangements of other countries to learn from their experiences, consulted experts, citizens, NPC deputies and CPPCC members, and conducted online and phone polls.
http://www.hangzhou.com.cn/20071029/ca1405028.htm
Having over 10 million visitors to Hong Kong yearly, the mainland has been deemed as a natural market for the city's Disneyland.
However, the idea is once again put into test when low attendance was reported in the park during the ongoing Labor Day"golden week" holidays.
While Hong Kong expecting to receive about 420,000 visitors from the mainland, Disneyland also announced the seven-day holidays as its"golden week" for guests.
Related publicity activities included custom-made shining golden dresses for Mickey and Minnie Mouses, set meal of Chinese dishes and uplifted ticket price for special dates.
Compared to the aggressive promotion, the theme park's"golden week" kicked off in a quiet and orderly way due to low attendance of visitors.
On Monday, officially the first day of the holidays, neither long lines nor big crowds were formed in the park.
A handful of working reporters and local cable TV's satellite transition disks became so remarkable against an almost empty Main Street USA in the park.
At the entrance of several popular games, it took only five to ten minutes waiting for visitors to have a ride, which on some weekends would have people stand in line for at least half an hour.
Until Wednesday, tickets to the park for the rest of the"gold week" are still available for on-line purchase.
It's a sharp contrast to what occurred in the Chinese New Year holidays only three months ago, when Disneyland closed its gate to hundreds of visitors after the park reaching its maximum reception capabilities soon after opening.
http://english.cri.cn/725/2006/05/04/44@84643.htm