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the ownership restriction cut Beijing's total car stock by 14%, alongside large reductions in distance driven and rush-hour driving
Permanent project revision
Beijing License Plate Lottery & Vehicle Quota System
Revision 2026-08-20-source-dates-2 · effective 2026-07-26
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Governance facts carried by the record
- Operator
- Beijing Municipal Commission of Transport
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- city-government
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- public
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7 source dossiers
Beijing Municipal Government — car plate application (authority)
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- Name not classified · english.beijing.gov.cn
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- web-page · language not classified
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- 2026-07-26
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- 2026-08-20
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Official description of the allocation machinery: online user centre, eligibility checks against residence registration and existing vehicle registration, application windows, and joint applications by married couples.
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Xinhua — NEV plates for car-free households (17 May 2025)
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- Name not classified · english.news.cn
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- web-page · language not classified
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- 2025-05-17
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- 2026-07-26
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- 2026-08-20
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Names the Beijing Municipal Commission of Transport as the issuing authority and confirms the points-based ranking system applicants check in the lottery portal.
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Yang, Liu, Qin & Linn (2019), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management — peer-reviewed evaluation
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src-e62b640c5bd5dc04- Publisher
- Name not classified · rff.org
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- web-page · language not classified
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- 2019-10-07
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- 2026-07-26
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- 2026-08-20
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- Open archived copy ↗ · 2026-02-15
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Uses the lottery's own randomisation (winners vs losers) to estimate causal effects; states the policy reduces the total stock of cars in Beijing by 14%, with large falls in distance driven and rush-hour trips.
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CnEVPost — Beijing offers extra 20,000 EV quotas (19 Jul 2024)
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- Name not classified · cnevpost.com
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- web-page · language not classified
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- 2024-07-19
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- 2026-07-26
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Quota series: 150,000/yr 2014-2017, 100,000/yr from 2018; NEV share rising from 60,000 to 80,000, plus an extra 20,000 restricted to families with no vehicle.
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Sixth Tone — the odds, citing Xinhua (26 Jun 2018)
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- Name not classified · sixthtone.com
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- web-page · language not classified
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- 2018-06-26
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- 2026-07-26
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Reports odds of 1 in 2,031 in the June 2018 round, with 6,333 conventional plates on offer.
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China Daily — eight-year new-energy queue (31 Jan 2019)
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src-0b28e80f1bd140bc- Publisher
- Name not classified · chinadaily.com.cn
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- web-page · language not classified
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- 2019-01-31
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- 2026-07-26
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Reports some applicants waiting eight years for a new-energy plate, 400,000+ in the queue as of December 2018, against a 60,000 NEV quota for 2019.
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China Daily — closing the out-of-province loophole (15 Jun 2018)
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src-e781a27b69c226b8- Publisher
- Name not classified · chinadaily.com.cn
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- web-page · language not classified
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- 2018-06-15
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- 2026-07-26
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Counterweight: over 700,000 non-local-plated cars were circulating in central Beijing to dodge the lottery; from 1 November 2019 such cars are limited to 12 entry permits a year of seven days each.
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