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Live plate lottery launch

BEIJING is preparing a high-profile launch of its first-ever car license plates lottery, with the event broadcast live on TV and over the Internet on Wednesday.

A total of 17,600 car license plates will be allocated through the lottery, in keeping with the principles of openness, fairness and equity, according to the lottery office.

Validation for the first batch of 210,178 individual applicants has been completed, and the office will make public the results of that, as well as lottery time and rules, tomorrow.

Applicants can check out the validation information at bjhjyd.gov.cn.

Plates for institutional and company applicants will also be allocated on the same day.

The Beijing municipal government put in place the lottery mechanism at the end of last year in an effort to curb the number of cars in the gridlocked city.

It will allow 240,000 new car registrations in 2011, one-third of 2010 numbers. Last year, there were 4.76 million cars in Beijing.





 

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