Beijing's road maintenance fee for next year will be collected from December 1, said Beijing Road Bureau recently. The transfer from multiple fees to unified tax has been suspended due to the unstable price of gasoline in recent years,according to latest issue of Beijing Today.

Now that the road fee centers of the capital's eight districts have been linked, vehicle owners with no outstanding fees can pay future charges in any of the above centers. Those with outstanding fees must still settle the amount at the road fee center they first registered with.

The road maintenance fee will remain the same as in previous years and can be paid in monthly, quarterly, half-year or one-year installments. To cope with longer lines for paying road tax after the rise in vehicle owners, the bureau has set up a new fee collecting center near Jianxiang Bridge in the north of the city, which will open for business at the end of the year.

The fee collecting centers in four outskirt districts (ten in total) will be linked following the connection of the 8 centers in the city districts.

( Xinhua News Agency November 26, 2001)