Two grand halls and an imperial garden in the Forbidden City will open to the public next August to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Palace Museum. 

Visitors from home and abroad will be able to enjoy more historic sites in the Forbidden City.

Two grand halls and an imperial garden will open to the public next August to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Palace Museum.

Renovation of the Hall of Wu-Ying-Dian will be completed at the end of this year.

Visitors to the Hall of Wen Hua Dian might feel their IQs getting a ghostly boost - this is where learned officials graded the final imperial examinations.

And they might hear giggling in the Jian Fu Gong garden, one of the places where the feudal nobility had fun.

(CRI.com August 14, 2004)