Poll seeks views on Spring Festival schedule

Public opinion is being sought on the official Lunar New Year holiday schedule for 2015, with online debate raging over whether Lunar New Year's Eve should be included in the seven-day break.

An online poll on the Sina.com portal is being conducted by the National Survey Research Center at Renmin University of China on behalf of "certain government departments".

The poll has three questions. Besides a respondent's age and occupation, it asks whether the Spring Festival holiday should start on Feb 18 - Lunar New Year's Eve - or on the first day of Lunar New Year.