Chinese eager to hit the road for holidays

Almost 80 percent of Chinese netizens hope to spend the upcoming Spring Festival break traveling, according to a report based on a nationwide survey.

The survey quizzed more than 1,300 Internet users across 30 Chinese cities.

About 40 percent of the people planning to travel in mid-February prefer overseas destinations, surpassing the 37 percent who choose domestic routes due to worries about congestion at home, says a major Chinese travel agency website, Ctrip.com, which released the report last week.