Chinese New Year, also called the Spring Festival, falls on Saturday 6 February 2027, with New Year’s Eve on Friday 5 February. The State Council’s national holiday measures give Spring Festival four statutory days, from New Year’s Eve to the third day of the first lunar month, and say a holiday that falls on a weekend gets a substitute day. The actual days off and the make-up working days are set each year in a notice from the General Office of the State Council. At the time this answer was written, on 24 October 2026, the notice for 2027 had not been published, so any calendar that shows exact 2027 days off is a forecast. The notice for 2026 was issued during 2025, so one for 2027 is expected, but its date is not announced.

Dates to plan with now

Until the notice is out, plan around the fixed dates and a wide margin. Factories decide their own closure and restart, which often differ from the official days, so a factory may shut before the legal holiday and restart in stages afterwards. Check the State Council’s notice when it is published and then ask each supplier to confirm its schedule against it in writing.

What to ask the factory

Ask in writing: the last production and loading date before the closure, the date work restarts, the date the full workforce returns, and how it handles orders in progress. Ask the same of your fabric mill, dye house, trims suppliers and printers, because a delay in any of them holds up your order. Ask whether the factory has more orders than usual before the break, as order volume may be higher before a closure.

Two ways to plan

One approach is to finish and ship before the break: place the order early enough that fabric, production, inspection and loading all end before the factory closes. The other is to accept a restart: assume production resumes slowly and add buffer for the weeks after the break, when staff return in stages and supplies are rebuilt. Do not schedule a critical delivery just after the restart.

Inspection and freight

Book pre-shipment inspection before the closure for goods that ship before it, and plan for it again after the restart for goods that finish later. Confirm with your forwarder when cut-offs and loading are possible, as ports, trucking and customs brokers may also be affected. The delivery point in your Incoterms rule decides where risk passes to you, so be clear when the goods are handed over to your carrier.

Protect the contract

Put the agreed completion date, the late-delivery remedy and the plan for materials already in stock into the PO. Do not rely on a verbal date. Ask the factory to confirm the dates again about a month before the break, since closing and restart plans can change, and keep the confirmation with the PO. If the order is large or critical, ask for a weekly production update across the closure period, so that you see early if fabric, trims or printing are behind and can still choose between air freight, a split shipment or a later delivery date.