The Short-Term Load Forecasting for Special Days Based on Bagged Regression Trees in Qingdao, China

Table 1

Specific dates of public holidays in China.

Public holidays	2016	2017	2018
New Year’s day	1/1–1/3	2016/12/31–2017/1/2	2017/12/30–2018/1/1
	Fri Sat Sun	Sat Sun Mon	Sat Sun Mon
Chinese Lunar; Spring Festival	2/7–2/13	1/27–2/2	2/15–2/21
	Sun Mon Tue	Fri Sat Sun	Thu Fri Sat
Qingming Festival	4/2–4/4	4/2–4/4	4/5–4/7
	Sat Sun Mon	Sun Mon Tue	Thu Fri Sat
May Day	4/30–5/2	4/29–5/1	4/29–5/1
	Sat Sun Mon	Sat Sun Mon	Sun Mon Tue
Dragon Boat Festival	6/9–6/11	5/28–5/30	6/16–6/18
	Thu Fri Sat	Sun Mon Tue	Sat Sun Mon
Mid-Autumn Festival	9.15–9.17	10/1–10/8; Sun Mon Tue	9/22–9/24
	Thu Fri Sat		Sat Sun Mon
Chinese National Day	10/1–10/7		10/1–10/7
	Sat Sun Mon		Mon Tue Wed

Note: the statutory days are denoted in bold.