China license plate: Emergency rescue car

Issued today 2018 to today. Government plates for car, van, truck, and bus, 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, Emergency rescue car (2018 to today), sample S5726

Format, years and the law

Format
L9999, for example S5726 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

Province character, a force letter, X for 消防救援, fire and rescue; S for 森林消防, forest fire, four digits, then a red 应急, "emergency". Five digits and no letter at all marks a vehicle of the Ministry of Emergency Management itself.

X
消防救援 (fire and rescue force)
S
森林消防 (forest fire force)
应急
应急救援 (emergency rescue)

The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.

Years issued
2018 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Government: civil government fleets with distinct series. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
480 × 140 mm · every country's size
About this plate
The emergency-rescue plate, and the best-documented Chinese plate in this file: a State Council General Office notice publishes the complete encoding rule, the dimensions and the front/rear difference in TEXT, which GA 36 does only in withheld drawings. Eight characters: province, force code, four digits, 应急, or, for the Ministry of Emergency Management's own vehicles, province, FIVE digits, 应急, with no letter at all, and the notice gives both worked examples itself. The scope is set by the same notice: fire engines, aerial platforms, special-duty and logistics fire vehicles, fire motorcycles, rescue command vehicles, rescue transport, fire publicity vehicles and fire-scene survey vehicles, with the Ministry of Emergency Management as issuing authority. Vehicles moved to these plates from military plates get a one-off vehicle-and-vessel tax exemption in the year of the change, which is how the notice quietly dates the transfer of the force out of the armed police.

Legal basis and sources

  1. gov.cn https://www.gov.cn/zhengce/zhengceku/2018-12/11/content_5347765.htm

This plate in your app

The series id is cn-emergency-rescue-car-2018. 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-emergency-rescue-car-2018")'