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Special license plates issued for new energy vehicles in more Chinese cities
2017-11-20 14:07 GMT+8
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China starts promoting special license plates for new energy vehicles nationwide from Monday, as announced by the Traffic Management Bureau of the Public Security Ministry at a meeting last Thursday.

Twelve more cities, besides the five existing pilot regions including Shanghai, will be the first batch to carry out the deployment, including Baoding and Langfang in north China’s Hebei Province, Changchun in northeast China’s Jilin Province, Hefei in east China’s Anhui Province, and other cities in south China.

The special license plates are expected to be issued in all provincial capitals and part of prefecture-level cities by the end of 2017 and the whole country in the first half of 2018.

Symbolizing “green, environment-friendly, scientific,” the new plates use green as the base color, different from the traditional blue ones. Applied with a specialized mark, new materials and anti-counterfeiting technology, they are easy to be recognized and managed.

Compared to general vehicle plates, more numbers will be available for the special plates, as they will have an additional digit, from previous five to six. The cost remains the same, 100 yuan (about 16 US dollars) for each.

New registrants of new energy cars will be given a special license, and existing car owners can choose to replace their plates.

China has been encouraging the use of new energy vehicles. The number has soared to 1.018 million units, according to the Bureau, among which 825,000 are full electric, and 193,000 plug-in hybrid electric.
 
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China claims major boost in defence electronics capability
China’s industrial base now manufactures more than 85% of the key electronic components integrated onto Chinese military platforms, a senior government official in Beijing has claimed.

Diao Shijing, director of information technology at the Chinese government’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), said in comments to the China Daily newspaper on 21 November that the new statistic means China is “closing the gap” with the United States.

According to the China Daily report, Diao said that over the past decade the technological gap between China and the United States has shortened from 15 years to 5 years. Over the same period, the ratio of indigenously produced electronic components in Chinese military platforms has increased from 30% to 85%, he said.

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Advanced electronics needs met in China
Updated: 2017-11-21 06:29
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More than 85 percent of the key electronic parts in Chinese defense and high-tech equipment are now domestically made, meaning the country has the ability to be self-sufficient in advanced electronic components, officials said on Monday.

Over the past decade, the technological gap between China and traditional electronic powerhouses like the United States has shortened from 15 years to five years, said Diao Shijing, director of information technology at the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

At the same time, the ratio of domestically made key electronic parts in defense and high-tech equipment rose from 30 percent to 85 percent. "China is now fully capable of producing secure and reliable advanced electronic components, and will rely even less on imports," he said.

China's catching up in key electronic parts, computer chips, and software - the so-called soul of information technology - is "a remarkable achievement considering how fast other countries are also developing", Diao said.

These fields not only are crucial to big industries such as defense, internet and modern manufacturing, but also affect our daily lives through such gadgets as laptops and smartphones, he added.

"Chinese key electronic components and computer chips went from nearly unusable 10 years ago to being key parts of China's major defense and science projects, from space programs to deep-sea sub¬mersibles," Diao said.

In the past, China mostly relied on imports because it lacked the talent and means to produce high-quality electronic products or computer software, he said. "This depen-d¬ency opened China's defense and electronic infrastructure to external threats."

To tackle these issues, the State Council listed in 2006 the development of key electronic parts, computer chips and software as one of the 16 major national science and technology projects to finish by 2020.

This launched "China's new era of building a self-sufficient and secure electronic high-end electronic industry", said Wei Shaojun, chief technology engineer for the project.

But the technological gap was "monumentally huge", Wei said. China's CPUs could perform only at about 7 percent of the efficiency of their foreign counterparts, which also severely limited software developers' coding ability.

To close the gap, China organized around 100 companies to focus on "breaking through technological barriers, facilitating innovation, and building a sustainable ecosystem for research and development", Wei said.

China's booming demand for secured electronic components in defense and major science equipment also fueled the development, he added.

Now, China's computer chips can reach around 50 to 70 percent efficiency of their foreign counterparts. "And there are no noticeable differences in basic applications," Wei said.

In high-end applications, Sunway Taihu-Light, the world's fastest supercomputer, is wholly made with domestic chips.

During the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in October, all of the computers used in transferring files were also domestically made, "and not a single machine crashed", Wei said.
 

manqiangrexue

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Don't fully understand question. Of course the government does not encourage high-emission vehicles to create more pollution. The article says that special green tags would be issued to people with vehicles that pollute less not more. Unfortunately, the article failed to explain the advantages that such green tags would carry though it can be assumed that there will be some rewards given to Chinese drivers who earn the green tags by choosing energy-efficient vehicles that reduce pollution.
 

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Don't fully understand question. Of course the government does not encourage high-emission vehicles to create more pollution. The article says that special green tags would be issued to people with vehicles that pollute less not more. Unfortunately, the article failed to explain the advantages that such green tags would carry though it can be assumed that there will be some rewards given to Chinese drivers who earn the green tags by choosing energy-efficient vehicles that reduce pollution.

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Only one seems for China but plates in Europe different 6 specials round sticker ! the green for electric and cars more old can' t have for age 15 - 20 + years dépends motorization and fuel.
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But even the round sticker 4 or 5 can be not allowed some days !

Exist 2 areas one interior always not allowed to polluting vehicles and one external possible circulated if weather is favorable for low pollution areas can be different for small cities.

You buy a tag only one time for each car.

UK have begin after Germany etc... only since this year in France big cities only 4 - 5.

But seems more easy to ride in China :)
 
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