China gives students extra vacation so they can fall in love

Nine vocational colleges in China are giving students a week off in April so that their students can go in search of love during the holidays. The country is struggling to boost its birth rate, which has fallen sharply in recent years, reports Insider.

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Schools run by the Fan Mei Education Group announced on March 23 that they would have holidays from April 1 to 7 and instructed students to have fun.

"The school is implementing a spring break system in the hope that students will learn to love nature, love life, and enjoy love," said Liang Guohui, vice dean of Mianyang Aviation Vocational College.

“Get off campus, get in touch with nature and feel the beauty of spring with your heart,” the school said in a statement.

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All participating colleges are vocational schools for jobs in the aviation industry, such as pilots, flight attendants, air traffic controllers and airport security personnel.

Since 2019, schools have been giving students and teachers a week off in the spring. But this year's theme of "enjoy the flowers, go fall in love" puts a special emphasis on romance.

The announcement came amid China's push to prop up a rapidly declining birth rate and marriage rate. Local businesses, provinces, and towns have experimented with ways to get people to tie the knot, such as offering 30 days of "marriage leave" or launching campaigns asking urban women to date older rural bachelors.

Liu Ping, vice dean of the Sichuan Southwest Aviation Vocational College, said the school launched its spring break program in response to feedback from students asking for some time off campus to study, make new friends and "hang out."

Students are still given homework, but their tasks are to keep travel diaries, write reports about their own growth, do crafts or make videos of their travels.

“We decided to go on vacation to Lijiang for four or five days and then use the last two days to prepare for classes,” said college student Yang Hanyue.

Liu Yingzhi, another student, said she was going to visit her grandparents and take them to see flowers, and that she had been given homework to take pictures of an elderly couple.

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Some college announcements have gone viral on Weibo or Chinese Twitter. The notice from the Sichuan Southwest Aviation Vocational College received nearly 130 million views in two days of posting.
“Can’t this be popularized to the rest of the country?” — one of the users wrote in a comment.

“Sichuan is really strong in increasing the birth rate!” another person wrote on Weibo.

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The week-long spring break is a continuation of China's one-day national grave cleaning day, also known as Qingming, which takes place on Wednesday, April 5th.

This is a common practice in China, where some companies are introducing vacation periods to give employees more time to travel with their families. Workers, in turn, compensate for days spent away from the office by going to work on weekends.

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