Clearing the way for the sessions
BEIJING - The capital will adopt temporary measures to restrict vehicles registered outside Beijing from using the city's roads from Monday to ensure smooth traffic flow during the upcoming two sessions of the country's top legislature and political advisory body.
Traffic authorities in Beijing will stop granting long-term passes for vehicles registered in other places during the period when the annual sessions of the National People's Congress and the National Committee of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference are to be held in the capital. The measures, which start on Monday and last until March 15, also ban vehicles carrying hazardous chemicals from entering the city, the Beijing traffic management bureau said over the weekend in a statement posted on its website.
Drivers of vehicles from outside the city will be granted short-term passes only after they provide a certificate to show that their vehicles have passed a road-worthiness test and a warrant that they have bought compulsory motor insurance, the Beijing News quoted a traffic policeman with Beijing's Bailu tollgate as saying on Sunday.