Dear MEL School’s Topic Readers,
China announces holiday for V-Day
celebration
Does 70th mean a lot to China
and Russia? The leaders of the two recently-aggressive nations in terms of
territory jointly celebrated the 70th anniversary of VE day on May 8th
in Moscow in a greater scale than ever before with a massive military show off
parade.
Now China is going to commemorate the 70th
VJ day with the first time ever military parade along with a three-day national
holiday that was suddenly announced only less than a four-month time. The state
announcement said that September 3 will be a national holiday this year to mark
the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, or more importantly, the
allied victory over Japan. And workers will get three days off from September 3
to September 5 (Thursday-Saturday) but they’ll have to work on Sunday,
September 6 to make up.
In today’s digital era, paper calendar may
not mean much any longer. However, such a sudden announcement of public
holidays must make confusions and destructions to many businesses. Or are they
get used to such order from the government (party)?
More importantly, why all of a sudden such
an aggressive anti-Japan campaign is going to be held? Do they need to bring
public attention to something off the slowing-down economy?
Enjoy reading and guessing why 70th
anniversary has become such a big deal.
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