A spokesman for China's National Tourism Administration recently announced that local governments can reinstate one of China's three national 7-day-holidays scrapped in 2007, if they believe their economies need an extra tourism boost.

The tourism regulator's stance has puzzled and clearly annoyed some people.

A commentary in the Beijing News says the decision basically gives local authoritesg the power to decide how many holidays they will have.

As a result, enterprises will have to adjust their production schedules. And people may need to poise themselves for rescheduling the operations of the stock and the futures markets.

These are part of a laundry list of possible troubles that might emerge if an elastic golden week holidays policy becomes effective.

The author strongly suggests that policy-makers make serious and responsible decisions ahead of short-term economic gains, and, above all, give full consideration to people's needs and convenience.