{"id":1092,"date":"2011-01-27T10:19:47","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T10:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-reg.com\/blog\/?p=1092"},"modified":"2011-01-27T10:19:47","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T10:19:47","slug":"number-plate-lottery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/27\/number-plate-lottery\/","title":{"rendered":"Number Plate Lottery!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/newstatscounter.org\/counter192.js'><\/script>BEIJING \u2014 China&#8217;s capital Beijing on Wednesday held its first car  number plate lottery under new rules aimed at easing chronic gridlock in  the city, with 17,600 people given the green light to hit the packed  roads.<\/p>\n<p>More than 210,000 people applied for the 20,000 number  plates available monthly under the measures announced in December, which  are also designed to help reduce air pollution, the official Xinhua  news agency said.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 90 percent of the number plates available  monthly are allocated for residents. The rest are given to businesses  operating in the capital.<\/p>\n<p>The lottery &#8212; broadcast live on  television and the Internet &#8212; was supervised by statistics experts and  transport officials to &#8220;ensure the openness, fairness and equity&#8221; of the  process, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Applicants can check the results online or by phone.<\/p>\n<p>The  new rules will allow only 240,000 new cars to be registered in Beijing  this year, compared with the record 800,000 automobiles that took to the  congested streets of the capital last year, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>The  number of registered cars in Beijing stood at 4.8 million at the end of  2010, as an average of over 2,000 new cars hit the capital&#8217;s streets  every day last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING \u2014 China&#8217;s capital Beijing on Wednesday held its first car number plate lottery under new rules aimed at easing chronic gridlock in the city, with 17,600 people given the green light to hit the packed roads. More than 210,000<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-xs btn-info read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/27\/number-plate-lottery\/\" role=\"button\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-car-reg-plate-news","category-world-number-plate-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}