China license plate: Embassy car
Issued today Documented since 1992. Diplomatic 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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999999, for example915275(9 any digit)The red 使, 使馆, embassy, is the one certainty; uniquely for a Chinese plate, no province character appears. The popular reading of the digits as a country code plus serial has no published source, so we do not repeat it.
- 使
- 使馆 (embassy)
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
- Documented since 1992; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Diplomatic: diplomatic corps (embassy) issuance, usually its own decode. Issued for car and van.
- Colours
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Characters
#FFFFFFBackground#000000 - Size
- 440 × 140 mm · every country's size
- About this plate
- Embassy cars. Black ground, white characters, a RED 使, white keyline, 440x140, two plates. Everything in the previous sentence is sourced; the SERIAL GRAMMAR IS NOT.
- Region code notes
- No province character and no issuing-office letter, an embassy plate encodes no Chinese geography at all.
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-embassy-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-embassy-car-1992")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/cn/cn-embassy-car-1992.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/cn/cn-embassy-car-1992/template.svg
