In May and June this year, the saying that "Shanghai buys a car and Hangzhou gets a license" was heated up by some media. Afterwards, I learned that there were actually very few people who received the certificate in Shanghai at that time. But in recent months, the number of people playing cards in different places has really increased. According to some car dealers in this city, this sign of licensing in different places began to appear in September, and gradually increased with the gradual increase of license price in the past three months. By this month, it is estimated that the number of vehicles licensed in different places will reach about 400.
Dealers said that cars licensed in different places are usually within 65,438+10,000 yuan, mainly including Songhua River, Changhe, Chang 'an, liuzhou wuling, Huayang, Da Yue, Engel, Geely and Chery, and most of them are licensed in Suzhou, Kunshan and Taicang, Jiangsu, Jiashan and Jiaxing, Zhejiang. A few days ago, the reporter walked back from People's Square to Shandong Road Newspaper Street about 1 km, and saw nine L-license cars from Su E or Zhejiang.
According to Shanghai dealers, foreign dealers are keen to provide "one-stop service" for Shanghai licensed vehicles, which can provide temporary residence permits for customers, and the name on the vehicle driving license can also fill in the owner's own name, which is obviously more "in place" than the names of relatives or friends of the owner in Jiangsu and Zhejiang in the first half of the year. According to reports, the procedures for handling permits in other places are also very simple. As long as you provide ID photo, vehicle qualification certificate and car purchase invoice, you can basically complete the return trip on the same day by driving to a licensed city, and all the expenses only need to be between 2,000 yuan and 3,000 yuan.
Dealers also admit that licensing in different places will bring many sequelae to the future use and management of vehicles. The first is the annual inspection. Obviously, it is impossible for foreign vehicle inspection departments to conduct detailed inspections on vehicles in Shanghai. The annual inspection was stamped, and no one came to urge the owner to keep the car condition scientifically. The second is the handling of traffic violations. Because the information filled in by these licensed car owners in different places on the temporary residence permit is not the real address, after speeding violations, the Shanghai police have no place to send photos taken by electronic cameras, and traffic escape accidents will definitely rise. In addition, licensing in different places will also lead to disputes and deviations in vehicle insurance claims and bank loans, and the city will also lose some tax sources such as road maintenance fees, vehicle and vessel use fees, loan road construction fees, and urban vehicle sewage charges.
Theme: The Pain of Private Cars in Shanghai
"The Ministry of Commerce, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Supervision, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Communications, the State Administration of Taxation, the State Administration for Industry and Commerce and the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine will jointly carry out special rectification activities in the automobile market in the first half of this year, which is good for consumers." Chen Wenkai, a senior consultant in Shanghai auto industry, told the reporter.
"We shouldn't take measures to restrict purchases according to engine displacement or car specifications," Mr. Xia, who lives in Pudong, Shanghai, told reporters with great excitement. He especially hopes that this special rectification will restore his mini-car to its original appearance and avoid "discrimination".
During the interview, some local dealers even thought that the sales of Chery QQ, Hafei Lubao, Changhe adil and FAW Happiness Messenger in Shanghai were very low, which had a lot to do with some unreasonable places and the "local policy" to some extent. The license plate auction is a pain in the hearts of private car consumers in Shanghai.
When is the bidding on the card?
Interestingly, the first license plate auction in June, 2004, 5438+ 10, set a new record in history-the average bid for 5,000 license plates was 395 16 yuan, and the lowest bid was 38,000 yuan, of which the average bid had exceeded the highest point last year.
With the strong growth of automobile consumption, the price of automobile license plate in Shanghai is rising. According to reports, in 2000, the number of license plates issued in Shanghai was14,000, and the average bid price was 144 16 yuan. 200 1 year is 15900, and the average bid price is 14444 yuan; In 2002, it doubled to 3 1.850, and the winning bid price more than doubled to 3 1.72 1 yuan. In 2003, in July alone, a record 6,000 copies were issued, and the average bidding price rose to 38,269 yuan. In fact, the total annual license auction revenue in Shanghai exceeds an astonishing figure of 654.38+000 billion yuan.
For this year's high starting point, the relevant person in charge of Shanghai International Auction Company explained: "The price is on the high side. First, the number of unsuccessful bidders in the past few months is large; There is also an increase in disposable income in the hands of citizens, which has prompted the quotation to rise. "
In view of the rising auction price of license plates, as early as late August 2003, Shanghai introduced a new policy of bidding without reserve price for automobile license plates, stipulating that "in the future, you must show the original relevant documents in person, and each person can only apply for1; Individuals who have obtained the license amount may not participate in the auction again within 1 year; The license obtained by auction shall not be transferred within six months. "
For this new policy, consumers generally question that since it is an auction, there should be no price limit or price reduction. "No matter what kind of auction, it is not balanced for car consumers." Chen Wenkai expressed his views.
Shanghai's automobile consumption barriers are getting higher and higher?
It is said that the government department launched the auction of license plates without reserve price, which is intended to stimulate automobile consumption under the existing conditions. According to the statistics of Shanghai Vehicle Management Office, in March 2003 alone, there were more than 2 million motor vehicle drivers in Shanghai, an increase of 65,438+10,000 over the end of last year.
Although the bidding amount of private car license plate has increased, it is still difficult to effectively stabilize the price. It is obviously unfair to buy an economical car with a price of 6,543,800 yuan and a high-end car with a price of 400,000-500,000 yuan. It has been pointed out that the essence of the problem lies in the fact that the total control of the licensing quota itself is a policy to curb automobile consumption.
"Shanghainese are faced with the embarrassment that the price of cars is gradually decreasing and the license plates are auctioned crazily without reserve price." An employee surnamed Li, who loves cars, told reporters anxiously.
In view of the higher and higher license plate price, Shanghai car owners have to choose to get their licenses in other places. According to local media reports, the signs of Shanghai's licensing in different places appeared in September 2002, and the licensing locations were mostly Suzhou, Kunshan and Taicang in Jiangsu and Jiashan and Jiaxing in Zhejiang. At the same time, some dealers are more willing to provide all-round services for vehicles licensed in different places. "The procedures for accreditation in other places are very simple. As long as the ID card, photo, vehicle certificate and car purchase invoice are provided, the cost is about 2,500 yuan. " Shen Zhong, an employee of Shanghai Da Yue Automobile Sales Company, answered the reporter's questions.
However, the relevant departments in Shanghai soon introduced measures to prohibit licensing in different places. "Foreign license plates can't get on the Shanghai Elevated during peak hours every day."
According to insider's feedback, the Shanghai Economic Commission and the Public Security Bureau issued a notice of auction of car license plates without reserve price on February 28th last year, and held the first auction of car license plates without reserve price on February 28th this year. However, private car consumption in Shanghai has not been dominant. Because the biggest market in Shanghai is taxis, there will be 40,000 to 50,000 new taxis every year. Even if the license fee is cancelled, the purchase of private cars will not be as prosperous as in Beijing.
Industry experts also believe that an obvious fact is that Shanghai's road planning and construction should be said to be more advanced than Beijing. Is it really necessary to control the total number of cars in Shanghai?
Is the policy to stimulate or restrain consumption?
According to the data of the Automobile Industry Development Research Office of Shanghai Information Center, in 2003, there were 78,043 domestically produced cars with new license plates and old license plates in Shanghai, an increase of 20.765 1 compared with 64 1 in 2002.
Since Shanghai has implemented the total control policy of car ownership, the price of private car license plate directly affects the composition of high, medium and low-grade cars in Shanghai market. "As long as the price of private car licenses in Shanghai is on the rise, the number of low-end cars will further shrink. If the price of private car licenses is basically stable or shows a downward trend, then the composition of all grades of cars in the Shanghai market will be basically stable, and even low-end cars will pick up. " Zhu Junyi of the Automotive Industry Development Research Office of Shanghai Information Center analyzed this.
According to the statistics of authoritative departments, in the first half of 2003, there were 8,000 vehicles "used in Shanghai and licensed in other places", not including the vehicles of users who held Jiangsu and Zhejiang identity cards, worked in Shanghai and bought cars to go back to their hometown to license. And insiders revealed? There are more than 20,000 vehicles like this.
Judging from the top domestic automobile brands in Shanghai market in 2003, there are two obvious characteristics. First, the brand of Shanghai products is in harmony with the people at the right time; Second, high-end cars dominate the world. Among them, the top six are all local brands in Shanghai, and with the ninth-ranked Excelle, seven local brands in Shanghai have squeezed into the top 10. In 2002, automobile brands made in Shanghai accounted for 78% of the whole domestic automobile market in Shanghai, while in 2003 this figure was 69%. It can be seen that the advantages of local brands in Shanghai are still there, but not as obvious as before. In addition, among the former 10 brands, only Sail belongs to the low-end car, and Sail also belongs to the mid-end car range in the second quarter. Sail was classified as a low-end car range in the third quarter because of the continuous price reduction.
By the end of February, 2003, among the 734,888 vehicles in Shanghai (excluding trams, agricultural vehicles, trailers, special machinery and tractors), 46 1992 vehicles were used by companies (including non-private and non-rental organizations such as governments and enterprises) and 2 19386 vehicles were used by private vehicles.
At the end of 2002, the resident population in Shanghai was16.25 million, of which the registered population was13.34 million; Floating population 29 1 000. If calculated by 3 14 people per household, there are more than 5 million families in Shanghai, and the number of 220,000 private cars makes the family car ownership rate in Shanghai only 4.24%. In China, even the most popular cities for automobiles are Beijing and Chengdu. According to the latest statistics, the penetration rate is only 25%. This shows that there is still a long way to go for China cars to truly enter the homes of ordinary people, while the gap in Shanghai is even greater.
The automobile consumption policy of a country or region plays a vital role in automobile consumption. Taking Beijing and Shanghai as examples, Shanghai controls the total number of private cars and moderately liberalizes them. Beijing, on the other hand, let it develop freely. Due to the different policies adopted for the development of private cars, the number of private cars in Beijing is much higher than that in Shanghai, while Beijing's per capita GDP and per capita disposable income are lower than that in Shanghai.
Shanghai's automobile consumption policy leads to a much higher car use fee in Shanghai than in Beijing. To this end, Zhu also calculated an account for the reporter: based on a car worth 65,438+10,000 yuan, the vehicle purchase surcharge of 10% and various handling fees add up to about15,000 yuan, plus the high license fee in Shanghai, the average in 2003 is about 35,000 yuan; There are also 3,000 yuan for road maintenance, 3,500 yuan for insurance, 5,000 yuan for gasoline, 5,000 yuan for normal maintenance and 5,000 yuan for parking, and so on, at least about 20,000 yuan. Calculated by 10 year, it is 200,000 yuan. In this way, in the long run, a car with a price of 6.5438+10,000 yuan will cost about 350,000 yuan. The operating cost of a car in Shanghai 10 is about 65,438+10,000 yuan higher than that in Beijing.