Car plate lottery rolls on
Source: Xinhua |
February 27, 2011, Sunday
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BEIJING conducted its second car plate lottery yesterday, giving out 17,600 to individuals and 4,000 to offices.
Competition was stiffer this month as only six out of every 100 applicants received a car plate yesterday. About nine out of every 100 were awarded plates last month.
The individual winners were drawn from 292,280 applicants, said a spokesman for the municipal transport commission. More than 8,700 offices applied for car plates - the first time they were involved in the lottery since the city put in place the scheme at the end of last year. Car plates will only be awarded to offices once every two months.
According to the scheme, applicants who failed to win a plate in the first lottery were automatically entered in the next.
However, they will have to reapply if they still haven't received a plate by the end of this year, a spokesman said.
Beijing launched the lottery system on January 1 to control car numbers and curtail worsening traffic jams.
The city will only issue 240,000 car plates this year, about a third of the number registered in 2010.
Data from the commission shows the number of cars in Beijing more than quadrupled from 1 million in 1997 to 4.76 million in 2010.
Competition was stiffer this month as only six out of every 100 applicants received a car plate yesterday. About nine out of every 100 were awarded plates last month.
The individual winners were drawn from 292,280 applicants, said a spokesman for the municipal transport commission. More than 8,700 offices applied for car plates - the first time they were involved in the lottery since the city put in place the scheme at the end of last year. Car plates will only be awarded to offices once every two months.
According to the scheme, applicants who failed to win a plate in the first lottery were automatically entered in the next.
However, they will have to reapply if they still haven't received a plate by the end of this year, a spokesman said.
Beijing launched the lottery system on January 1 to control car numbers and curtail worsening traffic jams.
The city will only issue 240,000 car plates this year, about a third of the number registered in 2010.
Data from the commission shows the number of cars in Beijing more than quadrupled from 1 million in 1997 to 4.76 million in 2010.
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