"The one-week National Day holiday is indeed a stimulus to the economy and a number of people need the vacation to travel or rest. But the government should have solicited the public's opinion on the arrangement of the holiday to cater to changing demand, rather than following routine."

XIA XUELUAN, a professor of sociology at Peking University, talking about the public's complaints about the messy holiday arrangements in a report on chinanews.com on Monday. The National Day holiday, dubbed the Golden Week, was introduced in 1999.