Doors Open on the Tian＇anmen Rostrum

ON January 1, 1988, the first day of＂Beijing International Tourism Year,＂ the 75-year-old retiree Gao Xiwu was the first Chinese tourist to ascend the Tian＇anmen Rostrum, and a French couple became the first foreign tourists to do so. Tian＇anmen Rostrum was being made accessible to ordinary citizens over 500 years after its construction, receiving more than 2,000 tourists on that first day.

Doors Open on the Tian'anmen Rostrum