SHENZHEN traffic police denied a rumor Sunday that claimed car buyers who had received notary certificates still could not obtain license plates for their vehicles.
In a notice Sunday, police said the vehicle registration office in Xili and its outlets across the city had resumed car registration starting Feb. 3.
Car buyers who bought vehicles before 6 p.m. on Dec. 29, the time when Shenzhen started imposing a car purchase restriction, and have received notary certificates, can apply for plates for their new cars.
The notice said some car dealers lied to buyers, saying it was hard to register for the new cars, even though the buyers had received the notary certificates. The car dealers said they could only get the plates through their internal connections with traffic police by paying some extra money.
“Car owners need to pay 125 yuan (US$20) — 100 yuan for a set of plates of the same number, 15 yuan for a vehicle license and 10 yuan for a registration certificate. It is illegal for car dealers to charge any additional fees,” police said.
Yet police said they had doubled reservations for license plate registration to 6,500 a day. Registrations are also accepted during weekends before Spring Festival. However, only 3,000 registrations and transfers will be handled every day.
In the five days leading up to Feb. 7, the offices handled a total of 13,517 car registration applications and transfers.
(Han Ximin)
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