This from a source on the <a href="http://members.shaw.ca/pnhpublic/China.html">Oriental-List</a>:

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<quote>Does anyone in mainland China yet have the dates for the May holiday this year? Presumably it's effectively Sat 30 April to Sun 8 May</quote>

Dates for the Golden Holiday weeks are traditionally not formally announced until about 7-10 days before the holiday begins.

However businesses are already expecting May 1-7 as the holiday.  This means Sat 30 is a work day and Sun May 8 is also a work day.

Technically the holiday is May 2, 3, 4. However since businesses will work that Sat and Sun, we get Thurs (May 5) and Fri (May 6) off as holidays.
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I'm looking for some sort of project to pull off in those seven days.  A project that hopefully involves domestic travel, though not necessarily long-distance, and perhaps not even outside of the larger Shanghai.