Forbidden City in Beijing is closed for public due to Trump’s visit

Almaty. November 9. Silkroadnews - The Forbidden City in Beijing got closed for the public due to the visit of Trump, South China Morning Post reports.
“China shuts down Forbidden City in top-level personal welcome for the Trumps. Unprecedented red-carpet treatment meant to underscore the working friendship between the two leaders, observers say,” the report said.
It is noted that U.S. President Donald Trump arrived in Beijing on Wednesday afternoon with a state visit to establish personal interaction between the two of the world’s most powerful leaders.
Beijing calls Trump’s arrival as a “state visit-plus”, a term that has not been used for any foreign leader since 1949.
During the visit president Trump is accompanied by his wife Melania and a delegation of dozens of business leaders.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said that Trump’s meeting at the level of the “state visit-plus” was organized in return for the “warm, considerate reception” the Trumps made for Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan in Florida in April.
According to the publication, the Trumps began their visit with a trip to the Forbidden City in downtown Beijing, where they had tea with Xi Jinping and Peng Liyuan, and then toured the former Imperial Palace.
During leaders’ trip the Forbidden City was closed for the public with due security measures strengthened.
Xi Jinping and Donald Trump with their spouses also visited a Peking Opera before having dinner together.
It is reported that on Thursday the U.S. president will attend a series of events at the Great Hall of the People near Tiananmen Square before heading to a banquet in his honor. On Friday, Melania will go to the Beijing Zoo and visit the site of the Great Wall in the suburbs of Beijing. Then the couple will go to Vietnam.
Lu Peixing, the former head of the Chinese Foreign Ministry in charge of the protocol, also said that the events organized for Trump can "go beyond the scope of an ordinary state visit," but they reflect the ties between the two countries and the two leaders.