China National Day 2026 (Oct 1–7): Our Order, Production and Shipping Schedule

1. The Official 2026 Holiday Calendar

 Two holidays fall close together this year: Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day. Mid-Autumn Festival falls on September 25 (Friday) to September 27 (Sunday) — three days, with no shift adjustment. National Day runs from October 1 (Thursday) to October 7 (Wednesday) — seven days, arranged with adjusted working days. Two weekend days are designated as make-up working days: Sunday, September 20 and Saturday, October 10.

1.1 Why This Year Is Tighter Than Usual

In 2026 the two holidays are only three working days apart: September 28 (Monday) to September 30 (Wednesday) are the only normal working days separating Mid-Autumn Festival from National Day. In practice this compresses the autumn shipping window. Buyers who normally spread order confirmations and documentation across a full working week now have a three-day slot, and that slot sits immediately before a seven-day break in which most supporting services operate with reduced staffing.

1.2 Which Days Are Working Days, Which Are Not

 September 28, 29 and 30 are normal working days. October 1 to 7 are public holidays. October 8 (Thursday) and October 9 (Friday) are normal working days, and October 10 (Saturday) is a designated make-up working day. From October 12 the calendar returns to a standard Monday-to-Friday pattern.

2. What the Holiday Means for Your Order

Order handling is split between two things that behave differently: people-facing work (quotation, order confirmation, drawing and specification approval, scheduling) and system-facing work (banking, carrier bookings, customs filings). The first slows down or pauses; the second partly continues because ports, vessels and customs systems do not stop. The practical consequence is that anything requiring a human decision inside China — a revised artwork file, a re-quoted price, a signed approval — is best resolved before September 30.

2.1 Order Confirmation and Documentation

New inquiries and order confirmations during October 1–7 follow our holiday arrangement. Commercial invoices, packing lists, certificates of origin, test reports and shipping documents are prepared on normal working days, so documents that are not finalized by September 30 will generally be issued from the resumption date. If a document must travel with a pre-holiday sailing, confirm it with your account contact.

2.2 Payment and Banking

Cross-border payments follow the Chinese banking calendar. Telegraphic transfers received before the holiday are processed normally; transfers initiated during October 1–7 may only be credited after the holiday, depending on the sending bank and the currency. Letters of credit with expiry or latest-shipment dates falling inside the holiday should be reviewed now, because amendment requests raised during the break cannot be actioned until work resumes. If a payment deadline falls between October 1 and October 7, settle it before September 30.

3. Production Schedule

During the National Day holiday, most manufacturing plants in China stop for the full seven days. Lines that are mid-batch may complete work in progress, but new production starts after the plant reopens. Across the industry, October 8 is the first day on which plants restart in volume, which means the first one to two weeks after the holiday are a ramp-up period rather than a full-capacity period.

3.1 Our Production Arrangement

Our production resumption date is October 8 . Production slots for orders confirmed before October 8 ] are scheduled in the order they were confirmed; orders confirmed during the holiday are scheduled from the resumption date. If your delivery window falls in late October or November, confirming your order and specification before September 30 gives your production slot the best position in the queue.

4. Shipping, Port and Customs Schedule

This is the part of the chain that keeps moving. China's major seaports, container terminals and shipping lines operate continuously through public holidays; vessels berth and depart on schedule, and terminal operations do not stop for the week. What does slow down is the human and administrative layer around the port.

4.1 What Keeps Running

Vessel operations, terminal loading and discharging, and port security and gate operations continue. Customs authorities at major ports maintain holiday duty arrangements, including appointment-based clearance for urgent shipments; filings already submitted before the holiday continue to be processed. In short: if your cargo is already at the terminal with completed documentation, the holiday itself is not what will hold it.

4.2 What Slows Down

Container yards and depots, haulage and drayage fleets, and customs brokerage offices typically run with reduced staffing. Container pick-up and return, empty release, inspection appointments and document collection can all take longer than on a normal working day. Where a shipment depends on a physical step outside the terminal — a depot lift, a truck from an inland factory, a broker submitting an amendment — assume additional lead time.

4.3 Carrier Cut-Offs and Post-Holiday Space

Ocean carriers adjust documentation and cargo cut-off times around the holiday, and cut-offs are often brought forward rather than delayed. Space on the first sailings after October 7 fills early because bookings from the whole week accumulate into a single departure window. If your required delivery date is fixed, book before the holiday rather than after it.

4.4 The Post-Holiday Congestion Window

From October 8, production restarts, trucking capacity comes back, documentation queues rebuild and terminal volumes rise at the same time. In the industry this first week back — roughly October 8 to October 15 — is the busiest period of the quarter and the most likely window for delays. Building a buffer into October delivery commitments is a standard precaution, not a sign of a problem.

5. Contact Us During the Holiday

For anything time-critical between October 1 and October 7, use the holiday duty channels below rather than the general mailbox. For orders already in production, please quote your order number and the required delivery date so the message can be routed to the right person directly.

· Email: guangczcathy@gmail.com

· WhatsApp / Phone: +86-15811302335