Can a C1 license be directly upgraded to an A2 license now?
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A C1 license cannot be directly upgraded to an A2 license. If you already hold a C1 driver's license, the fastest way to obtain an A2 license is to upgrade to a B1 or B2 license after holding the C1 license for one year. After obtaining the B1 or B2 license, you must have three years of driving experience before you can apply for the A2 license. Therefore, upgrading from a C1 to an A2 license takes at least four years. Alternatively, you can take the second method, which is to directly obtain a B2 license. After holding the B2 license for three years with driving experience, you can then upgrade to the A2 license. This method is faster, but it does not involve upgrading directly from a C1 license. According to the 'Regulations on the Application and Use of Motor Vehicle Driving Licenses' (Ministry of Public Security Order No. 123) of the People's Republic of China, the following conditions must be met for upgrading a driving license: Article 14: If you already hold a motor vehicle driving license and apply to add a permitted driving category, you must not have accumulated 12 penalty points in the current scoring cycle and the most recent scoring cycle before the application. For applications to add medium-sized buses, tractors, or large buses to the permitted driving categories, the following additional requirements must be met: To apply for adding medium-sized buses to the permitted driving categories, you must have held a license for urban buses, large trucks, small cars, small automatic transmission cars, low-speed trucks, or three-wheeled vehicles for at least three years and must not have accumulated 12 penalty points in the three most recent consecutive scoring cycles before the application. To apply for adding tractors to the permitted driving categories, you must have held a license for medium-sized buses or large trucks for at least three years, or have held a license for large buses for at least one year, and must not have accumulated 12 penalty points in the three most recent consecutive scoring cycles before the application. To apply for adding large buses to the permitted driving categories, you must have held a license for medium-sized buses, urban buses, or large trucks for at least five years, or have held a license for tractors for at least two years, and must not have accumulated 12 penalty points in the five most recent consecutive scoring cycles before the application. In temporary residence areas, the permitted driving categories that can be added are small cars, small automatic transmission cars, low-speed trucks, three-wheeled vehicles, ordinary three-wheeled motorcycles, ordinary two-wheeled motorcycles, and light motorcycles. Article 15: The following circumstances disqualify applicants from applying for large buses, tractors, medium-sized buses, or large trucks as permitted driving categories: Being responsible for a traffic accident resulting in death with equal or greater liability; Driving a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol; Having a motor vehicle driving license revoked or rescinded within the past ten years. According to the Ministry of Public Security Order No. 139 'Permitted Driving Categories and Codes' of the People's Republic of China: The A1 permitted driving category is for large buses, which allows driving large passenger vehicles and also permits driving A3, B1, B2, C1, C2, C3, C4, and M categories. According to the Ministry of Public Security Order No. 139 'Permitted Driving Categories and Codes' of the People's Republic of China: The A2 permitted driving category is for tractors, which allows driving heavy and medium-sized full trailers and semi-trailer motor vehicle combinations, and also permits driving B1, B2, C1, C2, C3, C4, and M categories.
