Shanghai drivers now buy license plate before the car
By Shi Yingying and Wang Hongyi in Shanghai | China Daily | Updated: 2013-01-21 07:57
Increasingly expensive and hard-to-get license plates in Shanghai are forcing drivers to buy a plate before they get the car.
One such motorist, surnamed Qian, made a successful bid for a plate on Saturday during the municipality's first monthly auction this year.
Qian, who insisted that only her surname be used, said buying the plate first makes sense.
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