China license plate: Temporary travel
Issued today 1992 to today. Temporary plates for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, moped, trailer, 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.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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L99999, for exampleP74035(L is any letter, 9 any digit)The domestic paper permit adds an optional final character with real meaning: 试 marks a test vehicle, 超 an over-dimension or over-mass load; ordinary temporary plates carry neither. Two ground tints split single-area from cross-area travel, as on the entry plates.
- 试
- 试, "to test" (test vehicle's temporary plate)
- 超
- 超, "to exceed" (over-dimension / over-mass special vehicle)
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
- Temporary: short-validity plates (transit, awaiting registration). Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, moped, trailer, and machine.
- Colours
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Characters
#000000Background#CFE4F5 - Size
- 220 × 140 mm · every country's size
- About this plate
- The domestic temporary-travel plate: a printed card, one per vehicle, behind the windscreen. It is the only Chinese class whose colours are NUMBERED in a public standard, because paper printing is specified against GB/T 3181-1995 rather than against the withheld retroreflective-film standard, which is why its two hexes are the only ones in this file with a named colour designation behind them. GA 36-2007's 前言 records that this edition MODIFIED the temporary plate's 式样, so the 2007 description is not necessarily the 1992 one and certainly not necessarily the 2018 one.
- How long it is valid
- note: Set by rule, not by standard. 《机动车登记规定》(公安部令第164号) 第四十七条: 30 days for an unsold vehicle, a newly acquired but unregistered vehicle, or a new vehicle for export sale; SIX MONTHS for research and type testing; 90 days for the over-dimension special vehicles that cannot be registered at all; and 15 days where the plate itself cannot be made in time. No more than three temporary plates for the first two cases, one for the export case; never longer than the compulsory insurance; and void three days after the permanent plates arrive. 第四十八条 adds a separate temporary plate for intelligent connected vehicle road testing and demonstration, matching the test permit and capped at six months.
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...
- gov.cn https://www.gov.cn/gongbao/content/2022/content_5682413.htm
This plate in your app
The series id is cn-temporary-travel-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-temporary-travel-1992")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/cn/cn-temporary-travel-1992.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/cn/cn-temporary-travel-1992/template.svg
