drivers’ licences

It’s going to get harder to learn to drive in Beijing– as I’m sure you’re all happy to know.

新京报/The Beijing News’ Wang Shu reports (I seem to be translating a lot of her stories):

北京考驾照难度加大

Obtaining a drivers’ licence in Beijing will become more difficult

在京考驾照拿车本,交规考试题库将新增300多道考题;实际路考行驶距离将适当延长,考官将重点考核考生是否能与前车保持安全距离等安全驾驶意识。北京市交管局昨日消息,根据公安部要求,近期,北京驾驶员考试难度将再次加大。

300 new questions will be added to the question pool for the road rules test for obtaining a drivers’ licence in Beijing; the safe distance between vehicles on the practical driving test will be extended, examiners will emphasise the ability to maintain a safe distance from preceeding vehicles and other driving safety awareness of examinees. The Beijing municipal traffic department reported yesterday that, in accordance with the requirements of the Ministry of Public Security, the difficulty of the drivers’ examination in Beijing will once again be made more difficult.

I’m sorry, but I’m too tired to translate all of this right now. I’m butting my head up against too many sentences that seem to be missing a main verb and similar such problems. You can blame the HSK practice test I did last night for my current state. The rest of the week should be a bit easier, though, as the next two days will be all tests- oh, wait, that means I’ll have 150-odd essays to mark…. Anyway, suffice it to say that the drivers’ licence exam will be made more difficult in line with last year’s Decree 91 from the Ministry of Public Security, and the authorities are trying to deepen students’ understanding of the road code and their practical driving abilities before they get on the road for real and start causing trouble. They’re trying to improve traffic safety by improving the quality and abilities of drivers, in other words. You can follow the link above and check out the details yourselves.

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A Kiwi teaching English to oil workers in Beijing, studying Chinese in my spare time, married to a beautiful Beijing lass, consuming vast quantities of green tea (usually Xihu Longjing/西湖龙井, if that means anything to you), eating good food (except for when I cook), missing good Kiwi ale, breathing smog, generally living as best I can outside Godzone and having a good time of it.

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