China license plate: Low-speed

Issued today 1992 to today. Agricultural plates for truck and machine, 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, Low-speed (1992 to today), sample Q40064

Format, years and the law

Format
L99999, for example Q40064 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

The squarest Chinese plate still opens the standard way: the province character, then the letter of the issuing office that registered the three-wheeler or work machine. The class lives in the plate shape, not the characters.

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
Agricultural: farm vehicles/equipment where separately serialized. Issued for truck and machine.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFD500
Size
300 × 165 mm · every country's size
About this plate
低速车号牌, low-speed goods vehicles, three-wheeled vehicles and wheeled self-propelled machinery. The 300x165 mm plate is unique to this class and is the squarest metal plate in the Chinese range.

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-lowspeed-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-lowspeed-1992")'