China license plate: Consulate motorcycle

Issued today 1992 to today. Consular plates for motorcycle, issued by 公安部交通管理局 (Traffic Management Bureau, Ministry of Public Security). One of 22 China license plates.

China license plate, Consulate motorcycle (1992 to today), sample J4598

Format, years and the law

Format
L9999, for example J4598 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

Decodes like the consular car: province character and office letter name the host city, and the red 领, 领事馆, consulate, closes the serial.

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 motorcycle.
Colours
Characters #FFFFFF Background #000000
Size
220 × 95 mm · every country's size
  • China license plate, Consulate motorcycle 220×140 mm (1992 to today)

    Consulate motorcycle 220×140 mm

    consular · 220 × 140 mm

About this plate
Consular motorcycles. Note the parallel with the cars: § 5.4.1 puts the consular motorcycle rear plate in the shared layout (图 7) while § 5.4.2 gives the embassy motorcycle its own (图 8).

Legal basis and sources

  1. 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-motorcycle-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-motorcycle-1992")'