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Driving License: An Obstacle for Car Sales in Rural China
Nation, page 13
Despite attractive subsidies, China's latest consumption stimulus scheme of encouraging rural residents to trade in old automobiles for new ones have been hampered by conflicting regulations in some regions.
The stimulus scheme stipulated that one must produce a driving license issued by the traffic police department to qualify for the subsidies worth some 8,000 yuan per trade. However, farmers in the countryside have long enjoyed holding a permit issued by agricultural administrative agencies for their agri-used vehicles; thus, many rural residents do not have a driving license certified by the traffic police. As a result, these farmers were disqualified under the scheme.
Original article: [Chinese]