China’s province of Hunan implements a real-name registration system of motor vehicle repair services

Beijing. March 1. Silkroadnews - Hunan Province, central China, introduced a registration system to be used for motor vehicle repair services, China Daily reported.
“That means those who send vehicles for repair should show their identity cards and vehicle travel licenses to vehicle repair shops. And repair service providers will check those cards and upload the information into a provincial-united data system,” the agency quoted citing by Wu Jupei, deputy director of the Hunan Provincial Public Security Department.
“The information includes the details of vehicles, vehicle owners and people who send them for repair,” he added, noting this information was not required in the past.
According to the Public security department of Hunan Province, the repair service providers to be fined 500 yuan to 3,000 yuan ($79 to $475) if due information is not uploaded into the database.
“The number of motor vehicles in Hunan has reached 12.07 million so far, but illegal criminal activities, including stealing cars, using fake plates and causing traffic casualties and escaping, sometimes happen. The new registration system aims to fight against that,” Wu said.
The software for downloading information is provided free of charge. China Construction Bank's Hunan bureau is now working to equips repair service providers with the intelligent terminals that can recognize identity cards, read information from technical documents, collect and upload information.
According to Wu, the system started working on January 1. Since then, 6,905 service stations have been connected to the system and over 170,000 reports on vehicles repairs have been collected.