Guangzhou to Add 120,000 Fuel Vehicle Lottery Quotas by 2026

On January 14, the Guangzhou Municipal Transportation Bureau issued a notice announcing that an additional 120,000 license plate quotas for conventional small passenger vehicles will be added in 2026, all allocated through a lottery system. Under current policy, Guangzhou issues 80,000 conventional vehicle quotas annually, distributed evenly each month, while quotas for new-energy and energy-efficient vehicles are unlimited and can be directly applied for. This increase in quotas is a key measure to implement national and provincial policies aimed at boosting consumption, with the goal of stabilizing and expanding local automobile consumption. The additional 120,000 quotas will be evenly distributed month by month from January to December 2026, with a quota allocation ratio of 1:9 between organizations and individuals. Any unallocated quotas in a given month will be rolled over to the following month.