Palace Museum adopts visitor registration

Saturday saw the introduction of a real-name registration system for the purchase of tickets to visit the Palace Museum, also known as the Forbidden City. Visitors now have to present ID cards or passports.

At the same time, the museum introduced a policy to keep the daily number of visitors to below 80,000.

The introduction of the measures coincided with the 10th Chinese Cultural Heritage Day, which falls on the second Saturday of June.