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Beijing Morning Post<\/em>
February 24, 2009<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The Beijing Morning Post<\/em> reports that a 48-year-old woman went on trial yesterday on extortion charges relating to over 3,000 cars registered under her ID.<\/p>\n

Before 2006, Beijing imposed strict restrictions on non-residents who wanted to register cars in the city. Sensing a financial opportunity, many Beijingers identified a loophole and went into business as “car backers” (\u80cc\u8f66\u4eba), charging fees to let non-residents circumvent the regulations by purchasing vehicles using their Beijing IDs.<\/p>\n

The government eventually lifted the restrictions and subsequently issued rules ordering people who had lent out their IDs to transfer the registration<\/a> to the cars’ actual owners. The woman on trial yesterday had demanded a payment of 1,000 yuan before she would sign over the registration.<\/p>\n

According to the newspaper, the woman’s ID was used to buy more than 3,000 vehicles, and the owners of 1,000 of them had already paid her as asked.<\/p>\n

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The Beijing News<\/em>
February 24, 2009<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

In other residency-related news, there has been a lot of speculation lately about policy reform in Shanghai.<\/p>\n

Following the city’s announcement that it would “borrow the successful experience of overseas cities” to grant residence permits to people who remained in the city for a certain period of time, specifics of the new measures were unveiled yesterday. In addition to a minimum of seven years’ residence, a qualified applicant must satisfy a number of other requirements: posessing a clean criminal record, professional certification above a certain level, and payment of social insurance fees and income tax during the applicant’s stay in the city.<\/p>\n

Beijing, which is often compared to Shanghai in terms of its strict residence policy, will not consider changes to its current policy, The Beijing News<\/em> reports.<\/p>\n

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