{"id":84,"date":"2026-10-23T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/easy-buy-china.com\/blog\/?p=84"},"modified":"2026-10-23T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T01:00:00","slug":"china-sourcing-before-chinese-new-year-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/easy-buy-china.com\/blog\/china-sourcing-before-chinese-new-year-2027\/","title":{"rendered":"China Sourcing Before Chinese New Year 2027: Order Deadlines and Factory Shutdowns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style id=\"ebc-layout\">\n\/* ===== Easy Buy China blog: article layout refinements ===== *\/\n\n\/* Widen the whole reading column - title, meta and body - from the theme's\n   645px default. 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That is the date everything else in this article hangs from, and it is roughly fifteen weeks away from the day this is published.<\/p>\n<p>Fifteen weeks sounds like room. It is not, because the constraint is not the holiday itself. It is the ramp-down before it and the ramp-up after it, and both of those eat weeks that do not appear on any factory quotation. A supplier who quotes 25 days of production is quoting 25 working days in a normal month. December and January are not normal months.<\/p>\n<p>What follows is the operational version of the problem: what actually stops and when, how to count backwards from 6 February, the three dates you should get in writing from every supplier, and the four places pre-holiday orders usually fail.<\/p>\n<p>If you are reading this in the last week of October, you are inside Phase 2 of the Canton Fair \u2014 the phase that covers housewares, gifts, furniture and building materials. The <a href=\"https:\/\/easy-buy-china.com\/blog\/after-canton-fair-2026\/\">Canton Fair follow-up guide<\/a> covers how to turn those booth contacts into a shortlist this week.<\/p>\n<h2>What actually stops, and when it stops<\/h2>\n<p>The holiday is a switch. Factory output is a curve, and it starts bending well before the switch.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Workers leave early.<\/strong> In many provinces a large share of the workforce comes from other provinces, and the return trip is booked weeks in advance. Attendance starts thinning in the second week of January and falls sharply in the last. A line that runs 200 people in November may be running 140 by mid-January, with the same output target.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Upstream suppliers stop first.<\/strong> Carton printers, plating shops, moulding houses and label printers are smaller operations with the same labour problem. A factory can be fully staffed and still be waiting on packaging, because its packaging supplier closed three days earlier.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trucking and ports tighten.<\/strong> Inland haulage is the first thing to be booked out and the last to recover. Port operations continue through the holiday, but the trucks that feed them do not.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sales and documentation slow down.<\/strong> Quotations, artwork approvals and payment confirmations move through people, and those people travel. This is the slowdown that costs buyers the most, because it happens in the weeks when decisions are most urgent.<\/p>\n<p>The practical consequence: the day your factory stops shipping is usually earlier than the day it stops working, and the day it stops working is usually earlier than the public holiday.<\/p>\n<h2>A worked countdown from 6 February 2027<\/h2>\n<p>There is no single deadline that fits every product. There is, however, a defensible way to build one.<\/p>\n<p>The example below assumes a supplier in Guangdong, a 30-day production run, a pre-shipment inspection, a sea sailing from Shenzhen and a destination that needs the goods on shelf in the second half of March. Every number is an assumption; replace them with your own and the structure still holds.<\/p>\n<table><thead><tr><th>Milestone<\/th><th>Date<\/th><th>Why it sits here<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>Purchase order and deposit<\/td><td>Late November 2026<\/td><td>Production slots for December fill first; a deposit locks the slot, a promise does not<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Artwork and packaging approval<\/td><td>Mid-December 2026<\/td><td>Print runs upstream are the slowest link and close first<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Materials on site<\/td><td>Late December 2026<\/td><td>Anything not on site by the first week of January is a January risk<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Production start<\/td><td>Late December 2026<\/td><td>A 30-day run has to start now to finish before the labour curve bends<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Production end<\/td><td>22 January 2027<\/td><td>Set against the probable shutdown, not against the holiday date<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Pre-shipment inspection<\/td><td>25\u201327 January 2027<\/td><td>Late enough to see finished goods, early enough to leave a rework window<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Container loaded and sailed<\/td><td>29 January 2027<\/td><td>The last realistic sailing before bookings collapse<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Arrival and clearance<\/td><td>Early March 2027<\/td><td>30\u201335 days at sea plus clearance and inland delivery<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>On shelf<\/td><td>Mid to late March 2027<\/td><td>The date that actually matters<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n<p>Two things in that table are worth staring at. The first is that the purchase order sits in November, not January. The second is that the sailing sits in January, not February \u2014 because a February sailing is not a February sailing, it is a March one.<\/p>\n<h2>The 2027 holiday dates are not yet fixed<\/h2>\n<p>China&#8217;s State Council publishes the official holiday arrangement in the final weeks of the preceding year, so the statutory dates for 2027 were not settled at the time of writing. What is already known is the date of the new year itself: <strong>6 February 2027<\/strong>, the Year of the Goat.<\/p>\n<p>Buyers who wait for the official notice before planning are planning too late. The notice confirms the public holiday; it does not change the production reality, which is set by labour availability, upstream closures and freight capacity. Plan against the ramp, then adjust by a few days once the notice lands.<\/p>\n<p>The wider Q4 picture \u2014 Golden Week behind us, freight rates into the first quarter, and the shelf-date arithmetic \u2014 is covered in our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.easy-buy-china.com\/en\/news\/q4-holiday-sourcing-calendar-2026\">Q4 2026 holiday sourcing calendar<\/a>. This article assumes you have already read it and are now dealing with the specific question of the spring window.<\/p>\n<h2>Why a 25-day lead time is not a 25-day order<\/h2>\n<p>The most expensive sentence in pre-holiday sourcing is &#8220;production takes 25 days&#8221;. It is usually true and always incomplete. The order is the sum of steps, and only one of them is production:<\/p>\n<table><thead><tr><th>Step<\/th><th>Typical duration<\/th><th>What can stretch it<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>Specification and artwork sign-off<\/td><td>3\u201310 days<\/td><td>Rounds of revisions, packaging dielines, colour proofs<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Material procurement<\/td><td>7\u201320 days<\/td><td>Upstream closures, imported components, MOQ shortfalls<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Production<\/td><td>20\u201335 days<\/td><td>Labour availability, line changes, rework<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Pre-shipment inspection<\/td><td>2\u20134 days<\/td><td>Booking the inspector, failed AQL, rework cycle<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Booking and loading<\/td><td>5\u201315 days<\/td><td>Space availability, cut-off dates, trucking<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Ocean transit<\/td><td>14\u201340 days<\/td><td>Lane, service, routing, port congestion<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Clearance and inland<\/td><td>3\u201310 days<\/td><td>Documentation errors, destination inspections<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n<p>Add the middle rows and a &#8220;25-day&#8221; product is a 45-to-70-day order before anything goes wrong. In December, each row drifts later at the same time, which is why delays compound rather than add.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/easy-buy-china.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/container-yard-loading.jpg\" alt=\"Container being loaded with palletised cartons before a shipping cut-off\" class=\"wp-image-83\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/easy-buy-china.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/container-yard-loading.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/easy-buy-china.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/container-yard-loading-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/easy-buy-china.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/container-yard-loading-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/easy-buy-china.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/container-yard-loading-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The last handover to the forwarder is the date that decides everything downstream.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>The three dates to get in writing<\/h2>\n<p>Most buyers ask &#8220;can you finish before the holiday?&#8221; and receive a yes. The yes is not a plan. Ask instead for three specific dates, in writing, in the order confirmation:<\/p>\n<p>1. <strong>The last production day.<\/strong> Not the holiday start \u2014 the day the last unit leaves the line. 2. <strong>The last inspection day.<\/strong> The date by which goods will be finished, packed and available for a pre-shipment check. 3. <strong>The last handover day to the forwarder.<\/strong> The date the loaded container leaves the factory gate.<\/p>\n<p>A supplier who can give all three has a production schedule. A supplier who cannot is telling you something useful. Ask the same three questions of the packaging printer if it is a separate company, because it usually is.<\/p>\n<p>Put the dates into the purchase order as milestones with consequences, not as aspirations. Even a soft clause \u2014 a defined rework window, a staged balance payment tied to inspection \u2014 changes how the order is scheduled inside the factory.<\/p>\n<h2>Where pre-holiday orders actually fail<\/h2>\n<p>Four failure modes account for most of the damage. None of them is &#8220;the factory closed&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Materials arrive late.<\/strong> Production starts on time and stalls in week two because cartons or a component did not arrive. This is caught by asking for a materials-on-site date, not a production start date.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The approval loop runs long.<\/strong> Packaging artwork goes through four rounds in December because nobody signed off in November. Every round costs three to five days and the calendar does not care.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Inspection finds a problem with no time to fix it.<\/strong> A failed AQL check in the last week of January is not an inspection problem, it is a scheduling problem. Inspection has to be placed where a rework cycle still fits behind it. Our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.easy-buy-china.com\/en\/news\/china-quality-inspection-guide\">pre-shipment inspection guide<\/a> sets out the stages and the sampling approach.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The booking is made too late.<\/strong> Space in the last two weeks of January is committed early, and the alternatives are air freight or waiting. Neither is a plan. Book four to six weeks before the intended sailing, and decide in advance which SKUs you would air-freight if the sea option fails.<\/p>\n<h2>After the holiday is a separate problem<\/h2>\n<p>The restart is not the shutdown in reverse. Output in the second half of February is typically well below January levels, for three reasons: workers return over a period of days or weeks rather than on one date, newly hired replacements need training, and the factories that accept February orders are often the ones with capacity for a reason.<\/p>\n<p>That has a direct pricing and risk consequence: a factory promising a 20 February completion is promising something it may not control. Build the restart into the plan as a second ramp, not as a return to normal. If your product sells in Q2, the safer pattern is to produce before the shutdown and hold stock, rather than to produce immediately after it. Holding cost is usually cheaper than a missed season.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/easy-buy-china.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/assembly-line-winding-down.jpg\" alt=\"Assembly line winding down before the holiday with a covered workbench\" class=\"wp-image-82\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/easy-buy-china.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/assembly-line-winding-down.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/easy-buy-china.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/assembly-line-winding-down-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/easy-buy-china.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/assembly-line-winding-down-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/easy-buy-china.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/assembly-line-winding-down-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Most lines are still running, but the shift has already shortened.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Which orders to move first<\/h2>\n<p>If you cannot place everything in time \u2014 and in most companies you cannot \u2014 the decision is not &#8220;which order is biggest&#8221;. It is which order loses the most by slipping a month. Three tests sort a list quickly:<\/p>\n<table><thead><tr><th>Order type<\/th><th>Can it slip to March?<\/th><th>What to do<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>Customised, printed or packaged to your brand<\/td><td>No. The approval loop and the print run are the bottleneck<\/td><td>Move first; artwork sign-off this month<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Standard product with stock elsewhere<\/td><td>Yes, if you can bridge the gap<\/td><td>Move second; keep a small air-freight bridge for the best sellers<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>New SKU, unproven demand<\/td><td>Yes, easily<\/td><td>Move last, or defer to the post-holiday window and use the time to test the sample<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n<p>The trap is treating a new SKU like an anchor product. A first order that arrives in April instead of March costs shelf time on a product nobody has bought yet; a replenishment that misses March costs a listing its ranking.<\/p>\n<h2>What to put in the first email to every supplier<\/h2>\n<p>Send the same message to every supplier in the same week, so the answers are comparable. Eight questions are enough:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What is your last production day before the holiday, and your first day back?<\/li>\n<li>Which of your upstream suppliers close earlier, and what do they supply?<\/li>\n<li>Can you confirm the three milestone dates \u2014 production end, inspection ready, container handover \u2014 in the order confirmation?<\/li>\n<li>What is your current lead time for this product, quoted in calendar days rather than working days?<\/li>\n<li>Which materials would need to be ordered before the deposit clears?<\/li>\n<li>What is the latest date you can accept artwork for packaging, and how many proof rounds does that allow?<\/li>\n<li>What shipping method would you recommend for a sailing before the end of January?<\/li>\n<li>If we inspect in the last week of January, how many days of rework capacity do you have behind it?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The eighth question is the one most suppliers have never been asked, and the answer tells you whether the schedule has any slack in it. A supplier who says &#8220;none&#8221; is telling you that the inspection date is the real deadline.<\/p>\n<h2>A pre-CNY order plan you can copy<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Confirm the shelf date first, then subtract every step back to the deposit date<\/li>\n<li>Ask each supplier for the three dates in writing, and put them in the PO<\/li>\n<li>Confirm where packaging and printed materials come from, and their closure date<\/li>\n<li>Approve artwork before the first week of December<\/li>\n<li>Book inspection at the same time you book production, not after it<\/li>\n<li>Reserve freight four to six weeks before the sailing, not the loading<\/li>\n<li>Decide which SKUs would switch to air if the sea booking fails<\/li>\n<li>Keep a two-week buffer between planned arrival and the date stock must be sellable<\/li>\n<li>Re-confirm the shutdown plan in the first week of January, when the real dates are known<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Where a sourcing agent changes the arithmetic<\/h2>\n<p>The pre-holiday window is the period when an agent is least decorative. The work is unglamorous: chasing a packaging printer&#8217;s closure date, moving an inspection forward by three days, confirming a container is actually on the chassis, checking that the bank transfer landed so the factory does not deprioritise your line.<\/p>\n<p>That work matters most when several suppliers feed one shipment, because the shipment sails on the slowest one. Consolidating three factories into one container removes two cut-off dates and two chances to be the buyer who missed the boat.<\/p>\n<p>Whether the fee is justified depends on order size and how many suppliers are involved. Our guide to <a href=\"https:\/\/easy-buy-china.com\/blog\/what-is-a-china-sourcing-agent\/\">what a China sourcing agent does<\/a> breaks down the cost structure; the <a href=\"https:\/\/easy-buy-china.com\/blog\/how-to-pay-chinese-suppliers-safely\/\">payment terms guide<\/a> covers how to sequence a deposit so a December payment does not become a January problem, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/easy-buy-china.com\/blog\/incoterms-explained\/\">Incoterms guide<\/a> explains which party owns the risk at each handover point.<\/p>\n<h2>FAQ<\/h2>\n<p><strong>When exactly is Chinese New Year 2027?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Saturday 6 February 2027. It begins the Year of the Goat. The public holiday around it is set by China&#8217;s State Council and is normally announced in the final weeks of the preceding year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>When do Chinese factories actually close?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It varies by factory, region and industry, and it is almost never a single date. Production typically slows from early January as workers travel home, stops in the second half of January or with the public holiday, and restarts gradually through February. Ask each supplier for their own last production day rather than for &#8220;the holiday dates&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is late November too late to place an order?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For a standard product with no customisation, late November can still work if materials are available and freight can be booked. For anything customised, printed or packaged, late November is the outside edge \u2014 the print run and the approval loop are what run out of time, not the assembly line.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Should I ship before the holiday or wait until after?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ship before if the goods are ready and space exists. A January sailing usually arrives in March; a February sailing is effectively a March sailing with more uncertainty attached. If the goods will not be ready, plan for the post-holiday ramp rather than assuming a 1 March factory restart means a 1 March shipment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Does the shutdown affect air freight as much as sea freight?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The aircraft keep flying, but the cargo has to reach the airport, be screened and be documented \u2014 all of which depend on people. Air freight stays faster than sea through the window, which is why it becomes the expensive fallback for the SKUs that matter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What if my supplier says they work through the holiday?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some factories do run a skeleton crew, and some trading companies stay reachable. Treat it as a claim to verify rather than a plan to rely on: ask which lines run, with how many staff, and who signs the inspection report. Capacity that exists on paper in the last week of January is often thinner on the floor.<\/p>\n<h2>Start from the date, not the quote<\/h2>\n<p>Chinese New Year is the one supply chain event every buyer knows about in advance, and it still catches people every year \u2014 not because the date is secret, but because the work backwards from it is tedious and easy to postpone.<\/p>\n<p>Fifteen weeks from 6 February is enough time to do this properly and not enough time to do it twice. Confirm the shelf date, get the three dates in writing, book inspection and freight before the calendar forces your hand.<\/p>\n<p>If you are planning orders into the first quarter of 2027, send us the product list and the date the stock has to be sellable. We will tell you honestly whether the schedule still allows it \u2014 and if it does not, what the realistic alternative is.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.easy-buy-china.com\/en\/contact\">Talk to our sourcing team<\/a> about your Q1 2027 order plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese New Year 2027 falls on 6 February. 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