How to Upgrade to an A2 Driver's License?

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Under the premise of already having a C1 driver's license, the fastest way to obtain an A2 driver's license is to upgrade to a B1 or B2 driver's license after holding the C1 license for one year. After obtaining the B1 or B2 license and accumulating three years of professional driving experience, you can apply for an A2 driver's license. Therefore, upgrading from a C1 to an A2 license requires at least four years. There is also a second method to upgrade, which is to directly obtain a B2 driver's license. After holding the B2 license for three years with driving experience, you can also upgrade to an A2 license. This method is faster, but it does not involve upgrading from a C1 license. According to the "Regulations on the Application and Use of Motor Vehicle Driver's Licenses" (Ministry of Public Security Order No. 123) of the People's Republic of China, the following conditions must be met for upgrading a driver's license: Article 14: For those who already hold a motor vehicle driver's license and apply to add a permitted vehicle type, there should be no record of accumulating 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 vehicle types, the following regulations must also be met: For applications to add medium-sized buses to the permitted vehicle types, the applicant must have held a license for urban buses, large trucks, small cars, small automatic transmission cars, low-speed trucks, or three-wheeled cars for at least three years, and must not have accumulated 12 penalty points in the most recent three consecutive scoring cycles before the application. For applications to add tractors to the permitted vehicle types, the applicant 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 most recent three consecutive scoring cycles before the application. For applications to add large buses to the permitted vehicle types, the applicant 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 most recent five consecutive scoring cycles before the application. In temporary residence areas, the permitted vehicle types that can be added are small cars, small automatic transmission cars, low-speed trucks, three-wheeled cars, ordinary three-wheeled motorcycles, ordinary two-wheeled motorcycles, and light motorcycles. Article 15: Under any of the following circumstances, applicants are not allowed to apply for large buses, tractors, medium-sized buses, or large trucks as permitted vehicle types: Being responsible for a traffic accident resulting in death with equal or greater liability; Driving a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol; Having the motor vehicle driver's license revoked or rescinded within the past ten years. According to the "Permitted Vehicle Types and Codes" (Ministry of Public Security Order No. 139) of the People's Republic of China, the A1 permitted vehicle type is large buses, and the permitted vehicles are large passenger vehicles. Additionally, it permits driving A3, B1, B2, C1, C2, C3, C4, and M vehicle types. According to the "Permitted Vehicle Types and Codes" (Ministry of Public Security Order No. 139) of the People's Republic of China, the A2 permitted vehicle type is tractors, and the permitted vehicles are heavy and medium-sized full trailers and semi-trailer trains. Other permitted vehicle types include B1, B2, C1, C2, C3, C4, and M.