China News Service, Macau, November 1st (Reporter Long Tuyou) Macau car license plates bid farewell to the M prefix.
The first batch of special license plates with the prefix AA was publicly bid for on the morning of the 1st at the Macau Transport Bureau. As a result, the highest price of the license plate AA8888 was over 1.11 million yuan (MOP, the same below), and the license plate AA4444 received the most bids, becoming the most. Popular license plates.
The Macau SAR government launched 550 license plates with the prefix AA this time. AA2222, AA3333, AA8888, AA9999, etc. were all included in the bids. The Transport Affairs Bureau received more than 400 bids and received a good response.
Li Yongkang, Director of the Department of Vehicle and Driver Affairs of the Transport Affairs Bureau, said that the authorities received a total of 484 bids. Among them, the group A license plate AA8888 with a reserve price of 250,000 yuan received 12 bids. Someone bid more than 1.11 million yuan, becoming the highest price in the audience. .
In addition, AA4444, among the Group D license plates with a reserve price of 60,000 yuan, received 40 bids, making it the most popular special license plate in the audience.
Macau car license plates used to start with the word M, and then were sorted from A to Z 26 English letters, and they have been used for decades.
In recent years, the number of vehicles in Macau has grown rapidly. Vehicle license plates with the prefix MZ were used up in October this year. The Transport Affairs Bureau decided to start issuing license plates with the prefix AA.
According to data released by the Statistics and Census Bureau of Macau, as of the end of September this year, there were 246,000 registered motor vehicles in Macau, an increase of 1.6% year-on-year.
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