# China license plate: Emergency rescue car

> The China emergency rescue car license plate: format L9999, for example S5726, 2018 to today, car, van, truck, and bus.

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Part of [China license plates](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/china) (22 registration series).

![China license plate, Emergency rescue car (2018 to today)](https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/cn/cn-emergency-rescue-car-2018/china-license-plate-emergency-rescue-car.svg)

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Format | `L9999` (L is any letter, 9 any digit) |
| Years | 2018 → today |
| Class | government |
| Issued for | car, van, truck, bus |
| Plate size | 480 × 140 mm |
| Colours | background #FFFFFF; characters #000000; border #000000 |
| Rear plate differs from the front | yes |
| Checking a registration | The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued. |
| Series id | `cn-emergency-rescue-car-2018` (https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/china/emergency-rescue-car-2018) |

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.

| Code | Stands for | English |
|---|---|---|
| `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 |

Sources:

- [gov.cn](https://www.gov.cn/zhengce/zhengceku/2018-12/11/content_5347765.htm)

## 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.

## Other government plates here

- [Emergency rescue motorcycle](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/china/emergency-rescue-motorcycle-2018) (2018 to today)

## Use it

- Plate image (SVG): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/cn/cn-emergency-rescue-car-2018.svg
- Make it with your own text: https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plate-generator/china?series=cn-emergency-rescue-car-2018
- API: `GET https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/cn` returns this series as the entry with `"id": "cn-emergency-rescue-car-2018"` (https://vehiclesdb.com/api)

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