"It is rumored online that 'Beijing may introduce exclusive license plates for suburban areas,' related departments respond."

Regarding the "suburban exclusive license plates" rumor, the reporter called the consultation hotline for Beijing's regulation on the number of small passenger cars. The Beijing Municipal Transportation Commission replied via text message: Beijing has implemented regulations on small passenger cars since 2011 to effectively control the growth of motor vehicles, provide service for traffic congestion and air pollution control, and the policy still needs to be continuously implemented. The competent authorities have optimized the regulation rules multiple times and improved the allocation mechanism for indicators. According to current regulations, indicators are distributed through methods such as random drawing and point ranking, with multiple random mechanisms for regular drawings, resulting in a random selection process. In the next step, the rational travel needs of residents and the carrying capacity of road traffic and the environment will be fully considered to continuously optimize policies scientifically, continuously improve the level of public transport, especially green transportation services, and strive to establish a city transportation system that does not rely on small cars but still provides convenient travel options.