Record number of Chinese enjoy festival overseas

Outbound travel jumps 12.5 percent, with Europe high on list of destinations, report Fu Jing in Brussels, Zhang Chunyan in London and Li Xiang in Paris.

On Tuesday, Wu Chong returned from an eight-day trip to Sweden, Finland and the Czech Republic. She said she found few Chinese travelers in the museums and historic sites of Scandinavia, but saw several groups of them in Prague.

So, when she boarded a flight from Paris to Shanghai and discovered that most of the other passengers were Chinese, she wondered where they had all come from.