Blue PRC licence plates of the 1992 standard (August 2004 image). The last digit has been cropped.
Black PRC licence plates of the 1992 standard (August 2004 image). The last digit has been cropped. The People's Republic of China issues vehicles licence plates at its Vehicle Management Offices, under the administration of the Ministry of Public Security. PRC Blue Licence Plate. ...
PRC Blue Licence Plate. ...
PRC Black Licence Plate. ...
PRC Black Licence Plate. ...
Hong Kong and Macao have their own administrations on licence plates. Vehicles from Hong Kong and Macao are required to apply for licence plates, usually form Guangdong province, to go onto roads in mainland China. Guangdong (Simplified Chinese: 广东; Traditional Chinese: 廣東; pinyin: Guǎngdōng; Wade-Giles: Kuang-tung; Kwangtung in older transliteration; Cantonese: gwong2 dung1), is a province on the south coast of the Peoples Republic of China. ...
In this map of China, the light-coloured areas represent Mainland China, while yellow coloured area refers to Taiwan. ...
Types
Common Types The current plates are of the 1992 standard, which consist of the one-character provincial abbreviation, a letter of the alphabet, and five number or letters of the alphabet (e.g. Jing A-12345, for a vehicle in Beijing). The number order is produced at random, i.e. Jing A-12345 will not be issued before Jing A-12344. A computer handles the randomisation. (A previous licence plate system, with a green background and the full name of the province in Chinese characters, actually had a sequential numbering order, and the numbering system was eventually beset with corruption.) Beijing listen (Chinese: 北京; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Pei-ching; ; Postal System Pinyin: Peking), is the capital city of the Peoples Republic of China. ...
Yellow plates are issue for large vehicles of Chinese nationality, such as trucks and buses. These licence plates usually has the Designate Area and Letter on top of the numbers, as opposed to being beside it. (In addition, they may have the licence number sprayed in large letters on the outside of the truck, or in more prominent places.) Blue plates, the most common sort, are issued for vehicles of Chinese nationality which are small or compact in size. Black plates are issued for vehicles belonging to foreigners, and persons from Hong Kong and Macao. (Black licence plates are handed to vehicles of any size, as long as they are of foreign nationality.)
Military and Armed Police Military and armed police plates also exist, but -- of course -- they are inaccessible to common citizens. Traffic police have their own plates (white in background, red and black in lettering), or use a special blue plate, substituting the letter after the one-character provincial abbreviation to "O", e.g. Jing O-12345. Plates with one character in red, the others in black, set on a white background, are either military or armed police (red character for military, red "WJ" for armed police).
Motorcycles Motorcycle licence plates are nearly the same as that for ordinary vehicles, but are less in length and look more like an elongated square than a banner-like rectangle. There are two lines of text (province code and letter on the top, numbers on the bottom).
For qinqi or low-powered motorbikes, yellow licence plates are issued throughout.
Embassy and Consulate Embassy and consulate vehicles have their own licence plate with a red character and six more white numbers. Embassies use the character shi (for shi guan) and are used only in Beijing. Consulates use the character ling for (ling guan) and are used for representations outside of Beijing.
Other Types Vehicles for use in automobile tests, vehicles for use in driving schools (examination and test-driving), and vehicles at airports all have their own separate licence plates.
For automobile tests, licence plates consist of black characters on a yellow background with the suffix shi (short in Chinese for ce shi or test). For driving schools, different plates apply for test-drive vehicles (jiaolian che) and examination vehicles (kaoshi che).
Airports have licence plates with white characters on a green background with the designation min hang (Civilian Air Transportation). This shade of green is slightly lighter than the variant used on normal licence plates prior to 1992. 1992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Cross Border with Hong Kong and Macao Licence plates with a black background and special characters are used for vehicles in cross-border traffic in Hong Kong and Macao, for trips to and from Mainland China. These plates often belong along with another (local HK/Macao) licence plate on the same car.
Interim Licence Plates Interim licence plates are a piece of paper to be affixed to the front of the vehicle's window. They appear to have been withdrawn as of recently.
The Short-Lived 2002 Licence Plate Standard For a short while in the summer of 2002, a new 2002 Licence Plate Standard was instituted in several cities, including Beijing. They enabled number/alphabetical customisation. (The possible combinations were NNN-NNN, NNN-LLL and LLL-NNN, where N would be a number and L a letter. However, although the usage of "CHN", to designate China, was not permitted in the licence plates, that restriction, oddly enough, did not apply to the letters "PRC".) The VIN was also added to the new licence plates, and the plates were blue, with a gradual blue tint at the bottom end of the plates. Black letters were used on the plate. 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Beijing listen (Chinese: 北京; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Pei-ching; ; Postal System Pinyin: Peking), is the capital city of the Peoples Republic of China. ...
In late August 2002 new 2002 standard plates had their issuance temporarily interrupted, officially for technical reasons, but actually because some lewd, provocative and controversial number/alphabetical combinations were used. One of the biggest controversies was when a vehicle with licence plate number USA-911 was spotted in Beijing, causing an uproar. Equal uproars were created with such plates as PRC-001, and copyright violations were rife; the plate number IBM-001 was seen. The WTO acronym was also spotted in the licence plates. In a society that is still rather conservative in this topic, the licence plate SEX-001 was the source of yet another controversy. The number 205, an insult in spoken Chinese, was also spotted in some plates.
Possibly due to the controversies as described above, as of summer 2003, the new plates are no longer being issued. Old licence plates of the 2002 standard are not being recalled.
List of prefixes The following list summarises all the licence plate prefixes used in the province-level and prefecture-level divisions of China: Due to Chinas large population and area, the political divisions of China have always consisted of several levels since ancient times. ...
Due to Chinas large population and area, the political divisions of China have always consisted of several levels since ancient times. ...
First character: 京 jīng Beijing listen (Chinese: 北京; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Pei-ching; ; Postal System Pinyin: Peking), is the capital city of the Peoples Republic of China. ...
- 京A, 京C, 京E, 京F, 京H — Beijing proper
- 京B — taxis
- 京G — distant areas
First character: 津 jīn Location within China Tianjin (Chinese: 天津; pinyin: ; Postal System Pinyin: Tientsin) is a harbour municipality in China on the Hai He River (from Beijing) and [[]] of the Yellow Sea (Pacific Ocean). ...
- 津A, 津B, 津C — Tianjin proper
- 津E — taxis
Hebei First character: 冀 jì Not to be confused with the unrelated province of Hubei Hebei (Chinese: 河北; pinyin: Hébĕi; Wade-Giles: Ho-pei; Postal System Pinyin: Hopeh), is a northern province of the Peoples Republic of China. ...
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Tangshan (Chinese: 唐山市; pinyin: ) is a prefecture-level city in Hebei province, Peoples Republic of China. ...
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Handan (Simplified Chinese: 邯郸; Traditional Chinese: 邯鄲; pinyin: ) is a prefecture-level city located in the southwestern part of Hebei Province of China. ...
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Chengde (承德, Pinyin: Chéngdé) is a city approximately one hundred miles northeast of Beijing in northeastern Hebei province, situated near the Luan River. ...
Cangzhou (Chinese: 沧州; pinyin: ) is a prefecture-level city in Hebei Province, China. ...
Langfang is a large city midway between Beijing and Tianjin covering 6,429 km², with a population of 3. ...
Hengshui is a city in Hebei province, China. ...
First character: 晋 jìn Not to be confused with the neighboring province of Shaanxi Shanxi (Chinese: 山西; pinyin: Shānxī; Wade-Giles: Shan-hsi; Postal System Pinyin: Shansi) is a northern province of the Peoples Republic of China. ...
- 晋A — Taiyuan
- 晋B — Datong
- 晋C — Yangquan
- 晋D — Changzhi
- 晋E — Jincheng
- 晋F — Shuozhou
- 晋H — Xinzhou
- 晋J — Luliang
- 晋K — Jinzhong
- 晋L — Linfen
- 晋M — Yuncheng
Taiyuan (太原, pinyin: Tàiyuán, Wade-Giles:Tai-yüan) is a city in China, capital of the Shanxi province. ...
Alternative meaning: Datong (Taipei City), Datong (Company) Datong (Chinese: 大同, Hanyu Pinyin: Dàtóng, WG: Ta-tung) is a city in the northern Shanxi Province in China. ...
Changzhi County (长治县) is a county in the prefecture of Changzhi (长治市) in the province of Shanxi of the Peoples Republic of China. ...
First character: 蒙 měng Inner Mongolia (Mongolian: ᠥᠪᠦᠷ ᠮᠣᠨᠺᠤᠯᠤᠨ ᠥᠪᠡᠷᠲᠡᠺᠡᠨ ᠵᠠᠰᠠᠬᠤ ᠣᠷᠤᠨ r Mongghul-un bertegen Jasaqu Orun; Chinese: 内蒙古自治区; Hanyu Pinyin: N i Měnggǔ Z qū) is an Autonomous Region of the Peoples Republic of China. ...
Hohhot (呼和浩特; pinyin: Hūhéhàotè), occasionally spelled Huhehot, is the capital city of the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region of the Peoples Republic of China. ...
Baotou (包头) is the largest city in Inner Mongolia, Peoples Republic of China. ...
Chifeng (Chinese 赤峰, Pinyin Chìfēng; Lit. ...
Hulunbuir (Chinese: 呼伦贝尔; Pinyin: Hūlúnbèiěr) is a prefecture-level city in Inner Mongolia. ...
Xingan league (Chinese: 兴安盟; Pinyin: Xīngān Méng)is an administrative division of Inner Mongolia. ...
First character: 辽 liáo Liaoning (Simplified Chinese: 辽宁; Traditional Chinese: 遼寧; pinyin: Liáoníng) is a northeastern province of the Peoples Republic of China. ...
Major districts of Shenyang. ...
Dalian (Simplified Chinese: 大连; Traditional Chinese: 大連; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Ta-lien), formerly Lüda or Luta, is an ice-free seaport and a sub-provincial city in eastern Liaoning Province of the Northeastern Peoples Republic of China (Manchuria). ...
Anshan (鞍山; lit. ...
Location within China Fushun (Simplified Chinese: 抚顺; Traditional Chinese: 撫順; pinyin: ) is a city in Liaoning, China, about 45 km from Shenyang, with population about 1. ...
Benxi (本溪市; pinyin: Běnxī) is a prefecture-level city located in the Liaoning province of China, south-southeast of Shenyang. ...
Dandong (Simplified Chinese: 丹东) is a city in the Chinese province of Liaoning. ...
For the city in Hebei provonce, see Jinzhou, Hebei. ...
Yingkou (营口; pinyin: Yíngkǒu shì) is a prefecture-level city of Liaoning province, in northeastern China. ...
Fuxin (Chinese: 阜新; pinyin: ) is a prefecture-level city in the Liaoning province of northeastern China. ...
Liaoyang is a city in Liaoning province in northeast China. ...
First character: 吉 Ji Jilin (Chinese: 吉林; pinyin: Jílín; Wade-Giles: Chi-lin; Postal System Pinyin: Kirin), is a province of the Peoples Republic of China located in the northeastern part of the country. ...
Location within China Changchun ( Simplified Chinese: 长春; Traditional Chinese: 長春; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Chang-chun) is the capital of the Jilin province in northeastern China. ...
Jilin City (吉林市), a city that is located in Jilin Province in China, situated in hilly area near the Songhua River. ...
Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture has become the traditional homeland of most Koreans in China around the end of the Manchu Dynasty (late 19th centuries. ...
Heilongjiang First character: 黑 hēi Heilongjiang (Simplified Chinese: 黑龙江省; Traditional Chinese: 黑龍江省; pinyin: Hēilóngjiāng; Postal System Pinyin: Heilungkiang) is a province of the Peoples Republic of China located in the northeastern part of the country. ...
First character: 沪 hù Shanghai (Chinese: 上海; pinyin: ; Shanghainese IPA: ) is Chinas largest city and is situated on the banks of the Yangtze River Delta. ...
First character: 苏 sū Jiangsu (Simplified Chinese: 江苏; Traditional Chinese: 江蘇; pinyin: Jiāngsū; Wade-Giles: Chiang-su; Postal System Pinyin: Kiangsu) is a province of the Peoples Republic of China, located along the east coast of the country. ...
Nanjing (Chinese: 南京; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Nan-ching; Postal System Pinyin: Nanking, formerly Jinling 金陵, Jiangning 江宁, and Tianjing 天京) is the central city of downstream Yangtze Basin and is a renowned historical and cultural city. ...
Wuxi (无锡/無錫, lit. ...
First character: 浙 zhè Zhejiang (Chinese: 浙江; pinyin: Zhèjiāng; Wade-Giles: Che-chiang; Postal System Pinyin: Chehkiang or Chekiang) is a eastern coastal province of the Peoples Republic of China. ...
Hangzhou (Chinese: 杭州; pinyin: Hángzhōu; Wade-Giles: Hang-chou) is a sub-provincial city in China, and the capital of Zhejiang province. ...
Ningbo (Simplified Chinese: 宁波; Traditional Chinese: 寧波; pinyin: Níngbō; Wade-Giles: Ning-po; literally Tranquil Waves) is a seaport sub-provincial city in the Zhejiang province of China. ...
First character: 皖 wǎn Anhui (Chinese: 安徽; pinyin: Ānhuī; Wade-Giles: An-hui; Postal System Pinyin: Ngan-hui, Anhwei or An-hwei) is a province of the Peoples Republic of China. ...
First character: 闽 mǐn Fujian (Chinese: 福建; pinyin: Fújiàn; Wade-Giles: Fu-chien; Postal System Pinyin: Fukien, Foukien; local transliteration Hokkien from Min Nan Hok-kiàn) is one of the provinces on the southeast coast of China. ...
first character: 赣 gàn Jiangxi (Chinese: 江西; pinyin: Jiāngxī; Wade-Giles: Chiang-hsi; Postal System Pinyin: Kiangsi) is a southern province of the Peoples Republic of China, spanning from the banks of the Chang Jiang (Yangtze) in the north into hillier areas in the south. ...
First character: 鲁 lǔ Shandong (Simplified Chinese: 山东; Traditional Chinese: 山東; pinyin: Shāndōng; Wade-Giles: Shan-tung) is a coastal province of eastern Peoples Republic of China. ...
Location within China Jinan (Simplified Chinese: 济南; Traditional Chinese: 濟南; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Chi-nan) is the capital and a sub-provincial city of Shandong province in China. ...
Qingdao (Simplified Chinese: 青岛; Traditional Chinese: 青島; pinyin: Qīngdǎo; Wade-Giles: Ching-tao; Postal System Pinyin: Tsingtao) is a port sub-provincial city in the Shandong province of China, a naval base, and a major industrial city located at the southern tip of the Shandong Peninsula, in Jiaozhou Bay...
Zibo (Chinese: 淄博; pinyin: ) is a city in Shandong, China, east of Jinan. ...
Zaozhuang (Simplified Chinese: 枣庄; Traditional Chinese: 棗莊; pinyin: ) is a city in Shandong, China. ...
Dongying (东营) is a city of China, located in the Shandong province. ...
Yantai (Simplified Chinese: 烟台; Traditional Chinese: 煙台; pinyin: Yāntái), a Prefecture-level city in the Peoples Republic of China, is the largest fishing seaport of the northeastern Shandong Province and a nationally recognized centre of economy. ...
Henan First character: 豫 yù Not to be confused with the unrelated provinces of Hainan and Hunan Henan (Chinese: 河南; pinyin: Hénán; Wade-Giles: Ho-nan), is a province of the Peoples Republic of China, located in the central part of the country. ...
First character: 鄂 è Not to be confused with the unrelated province of Hebei Hubei (Chinese: 湖北; pinyin: Húběi; Wade-Giles: Hu-pei, also seen as Hupeh), abbreviated to 鄂 (pinyin: È, WG: O), a province of the Peoples Republic of China, lies to the north of the Dongting Lake, giving it the...
First character: 湘 xiāng Not to be confused with the unrelated provinces of Hainan and Henan Hunan (湖南; pinyin: Húnán) is a province of China, located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and south of the Dongting Lake (hence the name Hunan, meaning south of the lake). Hunan is sometimes called...
First character: 粤 yuè Guangdong (Simplified Chinese: 广东; Traditional Chinese: 廣東; pinyin: Guǎngdōng; Wade-Giles: Kuang-tung; Kwangtung in older transliteration; Cantonese: gwong2 dung1), is a province on the south coast of the Peoples Republic of China. ...
First character: 桂 guì Guangxi (Simplified Chinese: 广西; Traditional Chinese: 廣西; pinyin: Guǎngxī; Wade-Giles: Kuang-hsi; Postal System Pinyin: Kwangsi) is an autonomous region of the Peoples Republic of China. ...
first character: 琼 qióng Hainan (Chinese: 海南; pinyin: ) is a province of the Peoples Republic of China, located at the southern end of the country. ...
First character: 渝 yú Chongqing (Simplified Chinese: 重庆; Traditional Chinese: 重慶; pinyin: Ch ng; Wade-Giles: Chung-ching; Postal System Pinyin: Chungking) is the largest and most populous of the Peoples Republic of Chinas four municipalities, which have provincial-level status. ...
- 渝A — Chongqing proper (Yangtze north bank)
- 渝B — Yangtze south bank
- 渝C — Yongchuan, Jiangjin, Hechuan, Tongnan, Tongliang, Bishan, Dazu, Qijiang, Rongchang
- 渝F — Wanzhou, Liangping, Chengkou, Wushan, Wuxi, Zhongxian, Kaixian, Fengjie, Yunyang
- 渝G — Fuling, Nanchuan, Dianjiang, Fengdu, Wulong
- 渝H — Qianjiang, Shizhu, Xiushan, Youyang, Pengshui
Length 6,380 km Elevation of the source ? m Average discharge 31,900 m³/s Area watershed 1,800,000 km² Origin Qinghai Province and Tibet Mouth East China Sea Basin countries China The Chang Jiang (Simplified Chinese: 长江; Traditional Chinese: 長江; pinyin: Cháng Jiāng; Wade-Giles: Chang Chiang...
Length 6,380 km Elevation of the source ? m Average discharge 31,900 m³/s Area watershed 1,800,000 km² Origin Qinghai Province and Tibet Mouth East China Sea Basin countries China The Chang Jiang (Simplified Chinese: 长江; Traditional Chinese: 長江; pinyin: Cháng Jiāng; Wade-Giles: Chang Chiang...
Wanzhou (万州) is a district of Chongqing Municipality of the Peoples Republic of China, in the Three Gorges. ...
Fuling (涪陵) is a district of Chongqing Municipality of the Peoples Republic of China. ...
Alternate meanings: Oolong (disambiguation) Oolong (烏龍 wūlóng in the Mandarin Pinyin romanization) is a traditional Chinese type of tea somewhere in between green and black in oxidation. ...
Pengshui Miao and Tujia Autonomous County (彭水苗族土家族自治縣 Pinyin: Pengshui Miaozu Tujiazu Zizhixian) is located in southeastern Chongqing, China. ...
First character: 川 chuān Sichuan (Chinese: 四川; pinyin: Sìchuān; Wade-Giles: Ssu-ch`uan; non-standard transliteration: Szechwan) is a province in central-western China with its capital at Chengdu. ...
First character: 贵 guì Guizhou (Simplified Chinese: 贵州; Traditional Chinese: 貴州; pinyin: Gùizhōu; Wade-Giles: Kuei-chou; also spelled Kweichow) is a province of the Peoples Republic of China located in the southwestern part of the country. ...
First character: 云 yún Yunnan (Simplified Chinese: 云南; Traditional Chinese: 雲南; pinyin: Yúnnán) is a province of the Peoples Republic of China, located in the far southwestern corner of the country. ...
First character: 藏 zàng The Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) (Tibetan: བོད་རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས་, Pö Rangyongjong; Chinese: 西藏自治区, Xīzàng Zìzhìqū), is a province-level administrative subdivision of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). ...
First character: 陕 shǎn Not to be confused with the neighboring province of Shanxi Shaanxi (Simplified Chinese: 陕西; Traditional Chinese: 陝西; pinyin: Shǎnxī; Wade-Giles: Shan-hsi; Postal System Pinyin: Shensi, pronounced like Shahn-shee) is a northwestern province of the Peoples Republic of China, and includes portions of the Loess Plateau on...
First character: 甘 gān This article or section should include material from Gansu, China Gansu (Simplified Chinese: 甘肃; Traditional Chinese: 甘肅; pinyin: Gānsù; Wade-Giles: Kan-su, or modified as Kan-suh) is a province located in the northwest of the Peoples Republic of China. ...
First character: 青 qīng Qinghai (Chinese: 青海; pinyin: Qīnghǎi; Wade-Giles: Ching-hai; Postal System Pinyin: Tsinghai) is a province of the Peoples Republic of China, named after the enormous Qinghai Lake (Koko Nor). ...
First character: 宁 níng Ningxia (Simplified Chinese: 宁夏; Traditional Chinese: 寧夏; pinyin: Níngxià; Wade-Giles: Ning-hsia) is an autonomous region of the Peoples Republic of China, located on the northwest loess highland, the Yellow River flows through a vast area of its land. ...
First character: 新 xīn Xinjiang (Chinese: 新疆; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Hsin1-chiang1; Postal Pinyin: Sinkiang; literal meaning: New Frontier; Uyghur: ) Uyghurs Autonomous Region of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC), sometimes known as Chinese Turkestan, East Turkestan (Turkestan also spelled Turkistan) or Uyghuristan. ...
Others In addition, a province abbreviation followed by "O" denotes a police vehicle, e.g. 京O, 沪O, and so forth. 使(shǐ) as the first character denotes an embassy or consulate vehicle. One of the ten heavenly stems (甲乙丙丁戊己庚辛壬癸 jiǎ yi bǐng dīng wù jǐ gēng xīn rén guǐ), or a licence plate with one red character and the others in black, set on a white background, denotes a military vehicle. The list of ten Heavenly Stems (天干; pinyin: tiāngān) was an enumeration of discrete entities, as in years and dates often employed in Chinese astrology. ...
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