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.

 

According to Shan Jixiang, director of the museum, the measures were taken to ensure safety and create a better visiting experience. The real-name system will keep ticket scalpers and unlicensed tour guides out of the museum.

 

Research by the museum shows that it retains its best visitor experience when the number of visitors is 30,000 each day. Both the safety of relics on display and the comfort of visitors are threatened when the number exceeds 80,000.

 

During peak visiting times, such as the summer vacation period and May Day and National Day holidays, the museum had received more than 100,000 visitors a day.

 

To reduce the time people have to wait in a line to buy tickets, the museum has also stopped selling tickets to tourist groups on site and encourages all visitors, whether in groups or as individuals, to book tickets ahead of time online. 

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