You've almost gotta wonder what's holding CCP back? Unless they think they're onto a game-changing new war tech that they're working on, but haven't quite got ready to roll yet. That's quite possible.

On a different note, the naming of 5 new public holidays appears to have a bit of niggle-factor to it. It sounds mundane enough - good idea - as a ex-market guy in Dulan, long weekends are a terrific boost for small businesses in regional areas. It shares the spending love around. Which is good for the overall economy.

The occasions chosen to celebrate though, are interesting.

Taiwan News:

1. Labor Day (May 1)

2. Little Lunar New Year’s Eve (day before Lunar New Year’s Eve)

3. Confucius' Birthday (Sept. 28)

4. Retrocession Day, Battle of Guningtou (Oct. 25)

5. Constitution Day (Dec. 25)

The last three are the most fun in terms of Taiwan's (studied) diplomatic statements. I'm thinking One China on either side of the Strait - We won't be declaring independence coz we're already independent.

On the surface it sounds like a simple statement of the state-of-play - so it's hard to attack - but it contains this reverberating concept that becomes an established lattice of thinking.
The last three holidays fit into this shrewd (to the point of smart-ass) diplomacy style.

Confucius: That's laying justifiable claim to ethnic Chinese philosophical heritage - which is right up there on the humanoid level.
If it was me making the call, i woulda gone a holiday for Zhuang-dz (contemporary of Plato & Aristotle - Confucius was Socrates era). Zhuang-dz was the Am i a human dreaming i'm a butterfly ...? Or a butterfly dreaming i'm a human ...? guy. (uncannily similar to Plato's Cave's questioning of reality)

Taiwan absolutely has a share in the wisdom of those golden-age greats. That's one thing Asians do well - they hold onto their Thought luminaries. It's drummed into them at school.

The West didn't/doesn't do that. It banned philosophy in 555 (odd) BC then usurped Roman time by enforcing AD/BC time two years later. Then viciously/religiously brainwashed everyone into glorifying their ORGS' projected image of Jesus & The Virgin Mary - for a bloody long time - The Dark Ages - 900 years.

Still going so far as i can tell - only rivaled in preparedness to lie on the grandest scale by the rise of The Science. All of it held together by a soulless capitalism.

Back to Confucius's birthday, Sep 28, re War in Taiwan - it will piss CCP off that Taiwan is tapping into that Chinese heritage - even though they arguably have way more claim. It will piss them off because they have more claim.
If you want to see some living semblance of what traditional Chinese culture was like before Mao's Mad-King reign brutalized it, go to Taiwan. In fact Mao waged a notorious Cultural War to Destroy the Four Olds - ideas, culture, customs, habits. Which included Confucius (& all philosophers).

CCP cannot be trusted to carry the flame of human endeavour. Totalitarianism extinguishes contrary flames the second they feel threatened by them. It's how they do.

But it's not only ostensible totalitarian regimes that hate ancient wisdom. In The Land Down-under, even the study of philosophy is New-Normal banned.
The course fees are so prohibitive ($100 000!)that no-one can afford to study it - same tactic they did with ciggies (which, predictably, caused a booming black-market).

So i am happy at least that one (the only one on the planet?) philosopher is being commemorated with a public holiday. Wish we could celebrate Plato like that! (which AI says was either Nov 7th or May 8th - hey, why not have two holidays?!)