China

	Picture	Date of first issue	Date of last issue	Type	Description	Remarks
		1920		car
		1930		car	A 123	京 = Beijing Europlate (2x)
		1935?		car	A 123	Manchuria? (Japan) Francoplaque
		1949		car	123456	使 = diplomatic Europlate
		Mar 1964	Feb 1973	car	1234567
		Mar 1964	Feb 1973	truck	1234567
		Mar 1964	Feb 1973		1234567
					1234567
1		Mar 1973	July 1986	car	1234567	car, light van, taxi and motorcycle Brumby
		Mar 1973	July 1986	mc	1234567	motorcycle
2		Mar 1973	July 1986	truck	1234567	truck and bus Brumby
3	older?	Mar 1973	July 1986	hire	1234567	hire (Kanton) and construction vehicle (Beijing) Europlate Internet
4		Mar 1973	July 1986	other	1234567	foreign resident (none diplo) Europlate (2x)
5		Mar 1973	July 1986	diplo	A 12345	diplomatic Brumby Internet
6		Mar 1973	July 1986	trac	1234567	tractor, agricultural vehicles Moens Fierens
7	bl/wh later?	Mar 1973	July 1986	other		van (small bus)
8		Mar 1973	July 1986	tr	A 1234	掛 = trailer Brumby Zhang
9		Mar 1973	July 1986	army	A 123456	辰 = Ministery of Defence Brumby
10		Aug 1986	June 1994	car	12345 A 1234	car and light van 河北 = Shijiazhuang 北京 = Beijing (01 and 31) Klotz Europlate
11		Aug 1986	June 1994	mc	12345 A 1234	motorcycle Klotz
12		Aug 1986	June 1994	truck	12345	truck and bus Francoplaque
13		Aug 1986	June 1994	tr	12345	trailer
14		Aug 1986	June 1994	other	12345 A 1234	agricultural vehicles and plant machinery Klotz
15		Aug 1986	June 1994	other	A 1234	学 = learner driver 北京 = Beijing Zhang Europlate
16		Aug 1986	June 1994	other	12345 A 1234	foreign owned vehicle 北京 = Beijing Zhang Moens
17		Aug 1986	June 1994	diplo	A 1234	使 = diplomatic 北京 = Beijing 107 = Australia 121 = Canada Zhang Europlate
18		Aug 1986	June 1994	diplo	A 1234	领 = consular 上海 = Shanghai Leuenberg
19		Aug 1986	June 1994	other	12345	cross border plates (Hong Kong and Macao) Europlate Zhang
20		Aug 1986	June 1994	mopd	123456	moped Zhang
21		Aug 1986	June 1994	other	12345	wheelchair Europlate
	gr			farm
22		July 1994	now	car	A 12345 A B1234 A BC123 and from 2004: A 1B234 A 12B34 A 123B4 A 1234B A 1BC23 A 123BC A B1C23 A B123C A 1B23C	car, taxi, van, small truck 440 x 140mm 粤 = Guangzhou (Canton) K = Maoming Europlate 津 = Tianjin 京 = Beijing N = suburbs Brekke (2x) plates are blue, but some provinces use a lighter blue
23		July 1994	now	mc	A 12345 A B1234 A 1B234 A BC123	motorcycle (front and rear) over 50cc 220 x 140mm 赣 = Jiangxi C = Yichun Brekke (2x)
24		July 1994	now	mc	A 12345	small motorcycle moped, under50cc 贵 = Guizhou A = Guiyang Aaron Ostrovecky
25		July 1994	now	truck	A 12345 A B1234	truck and bus (over 4500kg) 藏 = Tibet A = Lhasa 鲁 = Shandong G = Weifang Europlate Drake
26		July 1994	now	govt	A B1234	government officials use the letter O 粤 = Guangdong Europlate
27		July 1994	Nov 2007	other	A 12345	foreign 粤 = Guangdong L = Huizhou Hans
28		July 1994	Nov 2007	other	A 12345	foreign motorcycle 京 = Beijing Europlate (2x)
29		July 1994	now	tr	AB 1234 C	挂 = trailer 440 x 220mm 辽 = Liaoning C = Anshan Europlate
30		July 1994	now	other	AB 1234 C	学 = learner driver 新 = Xinjiang Uygur Q = Kashgar Europlate
31	bk/ye	July 1994	now	farm		farm vehicle or plant machinery 300 x 165mm
32		July 1994	now	farm	A 12345	tractor 皖 = Anhui P = Xuancheng Francoplaque
33		July 1994	2017	diplo	123456	使 = diplomatic 216 = Thailand Europlate
34		July 1994	2017?	diplo	A 1234	领 = consular corps 沪 = Shanghai Francoplaque
35		2002		pers
36	bk/wh	2006		mopd	123456	electric moped
				army
				pol
				govt		president
37		Dec 2016	now	other	A B12345	new energy size? small vehicle 陕 = Shaanxi A = Xi'an D = electric 粤 = Guangdong B = Shenzhen F = other energy Millers Europlate
38		Dec 2016	now	other	A 12345B	new energy size? large vehicle 粤 = Guangdong B = Shenzhen D = electric Europlate
39		May 2017		diplo	123456	使 = diplomatic 186 = Norway Brekke

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