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Download Most people prefer a seven-day holiday for National Day to two other options published by the national holiday authority to solicit public opinion. On Wednesday, the national holiday office announced three vacation packages and sought public comment. The online survey ended on Sunday, with more than 2 million people voting. Each of the three options would keep the total number of national holidays at 11 days, with the major difference being alternative packages for the National Day break - of three, five or seven days. Seven popular websites, including people.com.cn, ifeng.com and sina.com.cn, carried the online survey. Fifty-four percent of respondents on people.com.cn supported a seven-day National Day holiday, as did 49.9 percent on sina.com.cn and more than 55 percent on ifeng.com. However, many people were dissatisfied with all three options. "I don't support any of these packages," a respondent using the name huaijiaomu wrote on the bulletin board of people.com.cn. "If the authority really wants public opinion, it should first seek opinions on which festivals we should have national holidays for and how many days we should have. Now it stipulates the festivals and the number of national holidays, and only lets us choose from packages that are not too different from each other - this is like asking a monkey whether it wants three dates for breakfast and four for lunch, or four dates for breakfast and three for lunch." | 
