Where is the license plate 'Liao H' from?
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Liao H is the license plate of Yingkou City. Here is a partial introduction to license plates from other places in Liaoning Province: 1. The license plate letter for Shenyang City is Liao A, Dalian City is Liao B, and Anshan City is Liao C; 2. The license plate letter for Fushun City is Liao D, Benxi City is Liao E, and Dandong City is Liao F. Here is an introduction to the composition of license plate numbers: 1. The first character of the license plate is a Chinese character: it represents the provincial-level administrative region where the vehicle is registered, which is the abbreviation of the (province, municipality, or autonomous region). 2. The second character of the license plate is an English letter: it represents the prefecture-level administrative region where the vehicle is registered, which is the letter code for the (prefecture-level city, region, autonomous prefecture, or league). Generally, it is ranked according to the status of each prefecture-level administrative region by the provincial vehicle management office. 3. When arranging the English letter codes for prefecture-level administrative regions, I and O are skipped. O is often used for police cars or government units.
A couple of days ago, I saw a car with a Liaoning H license plate at a highway service station and specifically looked up the information. This code represents a license plate from Chifeng City in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. License plates in Inner Mongolia all start with the character 'Meng,' but different letters are used to distinguish between prefecture-level cities. H is the code assigned to Chifeng. Actually, there's a logic behind license plate codes—for example, within the same province, Meng A is for Hohhot, and Meng B is for Baotou, ranked by the city's importance. However, Chifeng has been using this code for quite a long time, and many friends mistakenly think it's a Liaoning license plate, when in fact, they are two completely different provinces. If you come across an old car with a Liaoning H plate, it might be an old license plate from before 2000 when the encoding rules were different. Nowadays, newly issued plates follow the standard Meng H format.
