Sichuan Mianyang is trying out a 2.5-day weekend model.

Recently, the Mianyang Municipal Bureau of Commerce in Sichuan issued the "Mianyang City Consumer Boost Special Action 2025 Work Plan". It mentions the implementation of a 4.5-day flexible work system, encouraging companies to have flexible days off, raising the minimum wage standard to 2200 yuan per month by 2025, appropriately increasing basic pension for retirees, raising the basic pension standard for urban and rural residents, and implementing a seven-day no-reason return policy for offline shopping... Journalists found that the "Work Plan" proposes seven core actions, including 29 specific measures, aimed at comprehensively improving residents' consumption capacity and market vitality. The seven core actions include increasing urban and rural residents' income, ensuring consumption capacity, upgrading and replacing consumption, improving service consumption quality, upgrading product quality, optimizing consumption environment, and upgrading international consumption. In addition, the implementation of vacation policies that have attracted attention mentions that annual leave should be fully utilized and paid vacation policies should be implemented, encouraging companies to have flexible days off and promoting spousal sharing. The trial of a 4.5-day flexible work system encourages regions with conditions to implement a 2.5-day vacation model combining Friday afternoon with the weekend.