Owing a car in Beijing If you live in Beijing, and if you haven’t had a car, owing a car will be a hard thing. People live in other country may have no chance to hear about the license-plate restriction policy. While the Beijing government implement the policy limiting license plate issuances in order to ease traffic. It works in the form of Yao Hao--- like a lottery mechanism. Only you pick the lucky number, can you have the chance to owing your own car . In part, the residents who are no planning to buy a car give into the panic because of the policy. With their participation, the one who really need a private car has less chance to fulfill his or her expectation, and the probability is just about one twentieth. If you are lucky enough to get a car or you have had a car before, you still need to stand the terrible traffic congestion. You are able to escape from being the sardine-like feeling afflicting bus and subway users, but you have a better chance of sitting in your car and not being able to move to anywhere but watching the front car’s buttock. Moreover if you really want stop, finding a parking lot would be a troubling problem. According to a research conducted by an American company, it averagely takes 31 minute to parking a car in Beijing, 11 minutes more than the global average. Despite the city’s severe traffic congestion, its volume of private cars-which is 4.78 million)-is still less than that in New York and Tokyo. Hence the trend of buying private cars will not end soon. This purchase restriction can only be an expedient (short-term solution), maybe the best way to solve those problem is a more reasonable and efficient transportation system.