Forbidden City Under Repair ( 2003-08-23 08:46) (newsphoto.com.cn)
Tourists visit the Forbidden City
as usual on August 22 in Beijing while workers set up scaffold outside the
palace compound to prepare for a major maintenance. The Forbidden City,
the largest and most integrated palace compound in the world, has been
under a large-scale repair and maintenance, which will last until
2008. [newsphoto.com.cn]
Tourists walk out of the Wu
Ying Palace of the Forbidden City surrounded by scaffold on August 22,
Beijing. The Forbidden City will remain open to
tourists during the maintenance. [newsphoto.com.cn]
Tourists walk out of the Wu Ying
Palace in the Forbidden City on August 22, Beijing. Last integrated
repair of the Forbidden City was carried out in 1911.
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