Over 1 million vie for 20,000 car plates in Beijing

 BEIJING, Aug. 26 (Xinhua) -- Winning rate for Beijing's car registration¹ lottery² has dropped to less than 2 percent in August, marking the lowest rate since the car plate lottery scheme was launched last year, local authorities said Sunday.

Among the accumulated 1.05 million private car applicants³, only 19,926 were given the right for car registration Sunday when the city's 20th license⁴ plate lottery was held, a spokesman with the Beijing car registration lottery office said.

The Beijing municipal government ushered⁵ in the car plates lottery scheme in January last year to limit the number of vehicles on the road.

Under the scheme, only 240,000 new private car plates are issued every year, and 20,000 every month.

About 200,000 people applied⁶ for car registration in January last year when the first license plate lottery was held in the city.

But the winning rate has been shrinking with the growing number of applicants.

Beijing now reports more than 5 million vehicles, statistics with the Beijing Municipal Traffic Management Bureau show.

1 registration   

n.登记，注册，挂号

参考例句：

• Marriage without registration is not recognized by law.法律不承认未登记的婚姻。
• What's your registration number?你挂的是几号？

2 lottery   

n.抽彩；碰运气的事，难于算计的事

参考例句：

• He won no less than ￡5000 in the lottery.他居然中了5000英镑的奖券。
• They thought themselves lucky in the lottery of life.他们认为自己是变幻莫测的人生中的幸运者。

3 applicants   

申请人，求职人( applicant的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• There were over 500 applicants for the job. 有500多人申请这份工作。
• He was impressed by the high calibre of applicants for the job. 求职人员出色的能力给他留下了深刻印象。

4 license   

n.执照，许可证，特许；v.许可，特许

参考例句：

• The foreign guest has a license on the person.这个外国客人随身携带执照。
• The driver was arrested for having false license plates on his car.司机由于使用假车牌而被捕。

5 ushered   

v.引，领，陪同( usher的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• The secretary ushered me into his office. 秘书把我领进他的办公室。
• A round of parties ushered in the New Year. 一系列的晚会迎来了新年。 来自《简明英汉词典》

6 applied   

adj.应用的；v.应用，适用

参考例句：

• She plans to take a course in applied linguistics.她打算学习应用语言学课程。
• This cream is best applied to the face at night.这种乳霜最好晚上擦脸用。