On October 28, a blogger posted a silent video with subtitles reading, "The momentum for two-day weekends must not fade" and "We can contribute our spending power, but please respect our labor," calling for the implementation of a two-day weekend system.
According to a report by Jizhou Studio, some young people who already have jobs call themselves "two-day weekend heroes," post their resumes on job platforms, and send rejection letters to companies that do not offer two-day weekends, saying they are looking for a company with a two-day weekend and that the other party did not make it into the shortlist.
On October 7, a video creator posted a video satirizing the fact that openly going to work during the National Day holiday in violation of the labor law goes unchallenged, while riding an electric bike without a helmet normally gets one stopped by traffic police.
According to Reuters, as China's national statutory holidays approach, Chinese workers are publicly demanding the rest and holidays they are entitled to. The situation has drawn outside attention to labor rights and the implementation of holiday entitlements.
On October 1, the app "Two-Day Weekend Go," which advocates prioritizing purchases from companies that implement two-day weekends and treat employees well, went on the Apple App Store. Users can view companies' rest systems and submit tips, and the platform states that it does not build a blacklist of companies and only positively includes information that has been reviewed.
On September 30, a netizen posted their personal monthly working-hours record, showing a single-day maximum of 18.2 working hours. In the related recommendations, many workers posted their attendance for September and the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holidays, with monthly working hours generally over 300 hours and some exceeding 350 hours, complaining about working non-stop without any rest.
On September 30, Sichuan Mobile Newspaper posted a video on Douyin about the Chengdu–Dazhou–Wanzhou high-speed railway "working non-stop through National Day" with the hashtag "salute to the laborers," saying that 1,050 builders on Section 5 were working round-the-clock in shifts. Several netizens in the comments asked about triple wages, and one such comment received 4,393 likes.
Ahead of the National Day holiday, a topic on Weibo opposing make-up workdays during the holiday garnered 360 million views and 120,000 discussions, and workers' dissatisfaction with holiday shifting, low wages, and excessive overtime has spawned consumer boycotts and rights defense through legal channels.
On September 28, a Douyin blogger released a video titled "No Good Employer Has One-Day Weekends," questioning the claim that taking one less day off means earning more money, arguing that many monthly salaries are padded out by extending working hours, and saying wages should be evaluated by hourly rate, sparking heated discussion among netizens.
On September 26, a netizen in Guangdong posted a work drawing an analogy to “public toilets used to charge fees, and it was only after predecessors spoke out that the charges were abolished,” calling on workers to lawfully voice their demands for implementing the two-day weekend system. The post received over 100,000 likes, and a large number of netizens left comments supporting the two-day weekend and the eight-hour workday.
As of September 26, the "Xiuxiu Cha" mini-program shows that it has included 1,453 companies, 26 products, and 1,578 employee tags.
On September 24, the Communist Youth League Central Committee released a promotional video on Bilibili for the National Day eve themed around "many places hanging five-star red flags." After it aired, the danmu were flooded with calls for "two-day weekends," with netizens seizing the opportunity to express demands for the enforcement of the two-day weekend system.
On September 24, a netizen posted an AI-generated video, adding hashtags such as "Refuse Silence," "Eight-Hour Workday," and "Five Days On, Two Days Off," saying that all injustice is acquiesced to through countless silences; many voiced support in the comments section.
The National Day holiday shift makeup policy on September 20 sparked public dissatisfaction, with numerous posts on social media platforms like Xiaoshongshu (RedNote) opposing the shift adjustments. Netizens expressed their discontent and proposed forms of retaliation such as slack off and reducing large purchases.
A domestic blogger posted a video criticizing the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday arrangement, pointing out that only one day is a newly added holiday while the other two days are already the weekend. The blogger also expressed dissatisfaction with the exclamation mark used in official propaganda stating 'Three-day holiday, no work schedule adjustment!', arguing that it attempts to create a fake sense of welfare.