More than 2,000 vie for single Beijing license plate

New statistics show 2,031 have competed for a license plate in June through Beijing's vehicle lottery system, a new record, reports the Beijing Youth Daily.

Beijing's vehicle lottery system for the license plate. [File photo: Chinanews.com]

Around 2.8 million applied for license plates through the lottery system by June 8, 2018.

This saw the likelihood of winning rise to 1-to-2,013. The ratio was 1-in-1,963 in April.

The same report also shows the limited number of new energy license plates allocated for Beijing for the full year have already been given out.

Beijing started to issue license plates under a lottery system in Jan 2011, designed to curb pollution and traffic.