Forbidden City tickets go on sale 7 days in advance online. Tickets are released daily at 8:00 PM through the official platform: the ‘Palace Museum’ WeChat Mini Program. In order to do this purchase, you need get WeChat app installed on your phone, and WeChat Pay function enable, and also get your passport ready.

After get your WeChat ready, please click “Me” then choose “Settings” to set up language and translate

As for language, choose “English”; translate text into “English” and you can also turn on “auto translate message received in chats” then it can help you get all the message received translated into English automatic.

After setting language and translate, you need search and find this ‘Palace Museum’ WeChat Mini Program. The key words you put in the search box is “Gugong” the Chinese pronunciation of ‘Palace Museum’. There are a list of Search suggestions. You can see the “Top hits “故宫博物院“ mini program. If you click “故宫门票预约” you may see more options. Just choose the one high lighted in the red square circle.