Baoshan, formerly known as Yongchang, is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Yunnan Province, located in the southwest of Yunnan Province. Externally, it is connected with Myanmar's mountains and rivers, with a border line of about 167.78 km, and internally, it borders Dali, Lincang, Nujiang and Dehong. There are 13 ethnic minorities living all over the world in Baoshan, with about 289,000 overseas Chinese, their relatives and returned overseas Chinese. It is the main hometown of overseas Chinese in Yunnan Province. The Southern Silk Road, Yunnan-Myanmar Highway and stilwell road pass through the territory.
At present, the civil license plate is Type 92, which has been used nationwide since July 1994.
The first number of the license plate is Chinese characters: it represents the provincial administrative region where the vehicle registered permanent residence is located, and is the abbreviation of each province, municipality directly under the central government and autonomous region. For example, Beijing is Beijing, Shanghai is Shanghai, Hunan is Hunan, Chongqing is Chongqing, and Shandong is Shandong? ; The second place of the license plate is English letters: it represents the prefecture-level administrative region where the vehicle account is located, and it is the letter code of each (prefecture-level city, region, autonomous prefecture and league). Generally, the provincial vehicle management office ranks according to the situation of the local administrative regions: (the letter "A" is the code of the central city of the provincial capital, capital or municipality directly under the central government, and the following letters are ranked in no particular order); In addition, I and O are skipped when compiling English alphabet codes of prefecture-level administrative regions, and O is often used as police cars or government agencies.