China license plate: Consulate car
Issued today 1992 to today. Consular plates for car and van, issued by 公安部交通管理局 (Traffic Management Bureau, Ministry of Public Security). One of 22 China license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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L9999, for exampleM3533(L is any letter, 9 any digit)The red 领 is short for 领事馆, consulate. Because the plate keeps the ordinary province-plus-office frame, it names its host city: 沪A…领 is a consulate in Shanghai. The single most useful sourced fact about Chinese diplomatic plates.
- 领
- 领事馆 (consulate)
The format above is broad: a registration that fits it has the right shape, which does not show that this series issued it.
- Years issued
- 1992 to today. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Consular: consular corps where distinct from diplomatic. Issued for car and van.
- Colours
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Characters
#FFFFFFBackground#000000 - Size
- 440 × 140 mm · every country's size
- About this plate
- Consular cars. The consulate's host city is decodable because the plate is built on the ordinary province + office-letter frame, § 5.1.1's layout grouping is the evidence, and it is the single most useful sourced fact about Chinese diplomatic plates. Unlike 使, the 领 character is NOT in GA 36-2007's list of characters that edition added, so this class is dated to the 1992 enabling instrument.
Legal basis and sources
- web.archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20150701102419/http://www.hngy.gov.cn/sitepublish/site1/wsbs/lyfwzl/jtfw/jdc/jdcfw/conten...
This plate in your app
The series id is cn-consulate-car-1992. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of China's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/cn \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "cn-consulate-car-1992")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/cn/cn-consulate-car-1992.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/cn/cn-consulate-car-1992/template.svg
