{"id":30927,"date":"2010-08-23T05:31:38","date_gmt":"2010-08-22T21:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/en\/?p=17368"},"modified":"2010-08-23T05:31:38","modified_gmt":"2010-08-22T21:31:38","slug":"china-to-open-more-of-the-forbidden-city-to-the-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/2010\/08\/23\/30927\/","title":{"rendered":"China To Open More Of The Forbidden City To the Public"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China's State Administration of Cultural Heritage has decided to open 70% of the Forbidden City in Beijing to the public, instead of the current 30%.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Forbidden City, which was the Chinese imperial palace from the Ming Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty, is now undergoing extensive renovations: according to a senior official of the state administration.<\/p>\n<p>Meridian Gate &#8212; Wumen in Chinese &#8212; will be the focus of the renovations. The gate is the southern entrance of Forbidden City and is the amain and largest amain gate to the Forbidden City.<\/p>\n<p>The official pointed out that the optimum number of visitors is 30,000 per day: however, at a peak time the number has been as high as 130,000.<\/p>\n<p>The newly-added sites are expected to help accommodate more visitors and reduce the possible destroy to heritages caused by large number of tourists.<\/p>\n<p>The renovations are expected to be completed by 2020, the official said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China's State Administration of Cultural Heritage has decided to open 70% of the Forbidden City in Beijing to the public, instead of the current 30%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12723],"tags":[12759,13897,15212,15213,12782,15214],"class_list":["post-30927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-beijing","tag-forbidden-city","tag-meridian-gate","tag-palace-museum","tag-tourism","tag-wumen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}