Translating "biding document" to Chinese words its pronunciation sounds like "Biao Shu", funny thing is in Chinese words, "Biao Shu" can also refer to another meaning, a very different meaning, that word is "Uncle Biao" in English. Apparently, people call it like that just for fun.
The story behind:
Recently, Shanghai gov has announced a new traffic control policy. According to the policy, the cars(vehicles) which have not Shanghai local car plate are not allowed to drive through several main roads in the urban area and beltways as well.
This policy pushes more and more people to go and grab the Shanghai local car plate. Shanghai as a modern metropolitan in the world has been gathering many talented people living here in the past decades. However, in contrast to the hike in the real estate price, the car price has not increased but going downhill. So it means that most of people living or working here can afford a car, and the car plate as a kind of scarcity resource can be very costly as a result.
If you want to participate in the car plate auction biding, you have to get a piece of biding document first. Gov sells it for 2000RMB(approx. $320) per set, including 1400RMB for guaranty and the rest 600RMB for the charge of bidding(You have 6 times to bid).
One of my friend is going to participate in the auction. Today he spent 4 hours to queue up, and fortunately he got it finally.
Okay, that's it.
Comments
I also found it during my visit.
Good!
That's one of the problem I'm going to face - I'm trying to work there (Shanghai, China).
Ni hao! Xie xie Rick. first of all, I want to be your student. I want you to be my Chinese teacher. Is that possible?