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Spring Festival Tourism Revenue Rises in Beijing

Feb 14, 2016

Tourism revenue in Beijing rose 2.9 percent year on year during the week-long Spring Festival holiday, according to the municipal tourism commission. Tourism revenue reached 4.92 billion yuan (753 million U.S. dollars) during the holiday, ...

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Taipei Palace Museum Opens Southern Branch

Jan 7, 2016

A long-awaited new branch of Taipei's Palace Museum was inaugurated in Chiayi city of south Taiwan on Monday. The project, with an area of about 68 hectares, is made up of a museum building, a green park and a lake. It costs more than ...

Tags: Taipei's Palace Museum, Southern Branch

Keeper of The Past

Dec 2, 2015

The Palace Museum in Beijing is one of the country's first UNESCO World Heritage sites. [Photo by Zhuo Ensen/China Daily] China celebrates UNESCO founding with pledge to protect its own sites and do more, Wang Kaihao reports. Preservers ...

Tags: Mogao Caves, Palace Museum

The Foreign Ming-Style Furniture Fascination

Nov 26, 2015

Ming-style furnitures. With its fabulous shapes, unique historical value, and impeccable craftsmanship, Ming-style furniture enchants domestic and overseas collectors alike. Western collectors even hail it as furniture in its most perfect ...

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Palace Museum Planning to Cap Number of Visitors

Nov 3, 2015

The Palace Museum in Beijing unveiled a plan on Tuesday to control the number of visitors after dealing with overwhelming crowds for years. According to Shan Jixiang, director of the museum, the draft plan sets an upper limit for daily ...

Tags: Palace Museum, Visitors, reduce ticket prices

"Happy Chinese New Year, Charming Beijing" Event Opens in Beverly Hills

Nov 3, 2015

With the approaching of the year of the sheep in the Chinese lunar calendar, the "Happy Chinese New Year, Charming Beijing" event will kick off at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills on the afternoon of February1, 2015(local time). The ...

Tags: "Happy Chinese New Year, Charming Beijing", Beverly Hills

Ten Characteristic Streets in Beijing

Nov 3, 2015

1. Liulichang Street Location: South Xinhua Street, Hepingmenwai, Xuanwu District, Beijing. Liulichang Street of Chinese Culture is a 750 meter long collection of all kinds of Calligraphy, art, antiques and paintings that China has to ...

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Forbidden City to Open Its Doors at Night

Nov 3, 2015

Tourists visit the Palace Museum in Beijing on Feb 20, 2015. The Palace Museum in Beijing, also known as the Forbidden City will extend its opening hours to make it more convenient for tourists, reports the Beijing Morning Post on ...

Tags: Forbidden City, extend opening hours, traditional culture

Weiyang Palace

Oct 30, 2015

The once imperial residence of Changan City (now Xi'an, Shaanxi Province), Weiyang Palace was the largest palace ever to be constructed. It was 6.7 times the size of the Beijing's Forbidden City, 11 times the size of the Vatican City. The ...

Tags: Weiyang Palace, Changan City

Rare Treasures to Be Stars of Palace Museum's Anniversary

Oct 30, 2015

As part of festivities marking the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Palace Museum in Beijing, a "Long Live Celebration" show will be staged. Many rarely- or never-before-seen national treasures will be displayed and Riverside Scene ...

Tags: Palace Museum, Rare Treasures

Beijing Top Domestic Destination for Dragon Boat Festival

Oct 30, 2015

Beijing is the top choice for Chinese travelers spending their recent three-day Dragon Boat Festival holidays, according to the Chinese National Tourism Administration. Data released by Beijing Municipal Commission of Tourism Development ...

Tags: Dragon Boat Festival, Tourism, Beijing

New Measures to Ease Crowd Pressure in Forbidden City

Oct 29, 2015

Hundreds of guests gather outside of the ticket office since the exhibition kicked off earlier this month, with a staff member from the Palace Museum leading each group into the exhibition hall. Starting from Saturday, each of the ...

Tags: Palace Museum, exhibition

a 1990s Commercial Flashback to The Forbidden City

Oct 29, 2015

The Forbidden City, witness to the vicissitudes of China, is of deep symbolic significance for the development of Chinese society. The pictures in photographer Li Jianhui's work, Business Wave Encircling the Forbidden City in 1993, make ...

Tags: Forbidden City, development of Chinese society, change

Monuments Men: Forbidden City Restorers Share Their Secrets

Oct 29, 2015

As Cining Gong in the Forbidden City is set to be unveiled to the public, some of those behind its painstaking restoration process share their experiences. Wang Kaihao reports. It is a closed part of the Palace Museum, also known as the ...

Tags: Forbidden City, restoration, traditional Chinese construction

Bringing Cultural Relics to Life

Oct 29, 2015

An exhibition displaying old royal craftsmanship began on Friday at China's former imperial palace. The Palace Museum, also known as the Forbidden City, is displaying 43 sets of cultural relics, including antique clocks, embroidery and ...

Tags: exhibition, Palace Museum, Cultural

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