China license plate: Emergency rescue motorcycle

Issued today 2018 to today. Government 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, Emergency rescue motorcycle (2018 to today), sample 应急京770X

Format, years and the law

Format
999L, for example 应急京770X (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

The one Chinese registration that leads with its classification: 应急 comes first, the province character second, and the force letter closes the number. Any parser that assumes "first character = province" breaks exactly here.

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

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 motorcycle.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
220 × 140 mm · every country's size
About this plate
The emergency-rescue motorcycle plate, and the one Chinese registration number that inverts the § 3.2 element order: the two-character 应急 pair leads, the province character follows it, and the force letter closes. Seven characters against the car plate's eight. Any parser that assumes "first character = province" for China is wrong exactly here, which is why the rule is spelled out on the series rather than left to the header.

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-motorcycle-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-motorcycle-2018")'