Report: On holidays, road trips rule

Road trips - especially short ones - are a major form of travel during national festivals and holidays, according to a report released on Wednesday by the China Tourism Academy.

Most road trips are made by middle-class people, the report said. The average distance traveled per trip during the first half of 2017 was 142.8 kilometers. And 80 percent of the trips covered a distance of 50 to 400 kilometers.

In 2016, Chinese people made a total of 4.44 billion trips. Of those, about 58 percent were road trips, according to the China National Tourism Administration.