Imperial measures Share CLOSE Wang Xudong, director of the Palace Museum, announces the facility will limit the daily number of tourists to 40,000 to ensure a better visitor experience. [Photo provided to China Daily] New policy set to improve visitor experience and ensure preservation of the Forbidden City, Deng Zhangyu reports. The Palace Museum in Beijing, also known as the Forbidden City, and the world's biggest surviving palatial architectural compound, will limit the daily number of visitors to 40,000 in future to ensure better tourism experience. It will mark a 50 percent drop from the 80,000 daily visitors in 2019, Wang Xudong, director of the museum, said on April 16.