Vehicle registration plates in China are mandatory metal or plastic plates attached to motor vehicles in mainland China for official identification purposes. The plates are issued by the local traffic
Current regular legal standard number plate from the PRC, registered in Changsha, Hunan
Layout and examples of 1986-series plates.
Pre-2017 Chinese diplomatic license plate. The first code is the character: 使 (shǐ, literally "diplomatic"), representing the embassy. The code 132 represents the Czech Republic, but it may not be due to Beijing having codes unreleased due to privacy reasons.
A Macau-registered Tesla vehicle with license plates from mainland China, Macau, and Hong Kong
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Hong Kong is a special administrative region of China. Situated on China's southern coast just south of Shenzhen, it consists of Hong Kong Island, Kowloon, and the New Territories. With 7.5 million re
Vehicle registration plates of China
…by the local traffic management offices, which are sub-branches of local public security bureaus, under the rules of the Ministry of Public Security. Hong Kong and Macau, both of which are special administrative regions of China, issue their own licence plates, a legacy of when they were under British and…
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Hong Kong in 1868, photograph by John Thomson
Peking Road in Tsim Sha Tsui in 1971
Victoria Harbour and Hong Kong Island, 2007