Traffic flows steadily on Beijing's Second Ring Road on December 13, 2010. The Beijing Municipal Government rolled out a plan to reduce the number of cars on the city's roads by using an odd-and-even license plate number restriction scheme. But as of December 5, Beijing's total number of automobiles was over 700,000, with 3,000 more cars joining the fray every day since (LUO XIAOGUANG) |