At present, every people who want to buy a car have to get a license plate by lottery system in Beijing. Some of my friends waited for two years for the license plate. I think that I will be in the same situation, and then my wife and I put our application in lottery system in April. To our surprise, my wife succeeds to get the license in May in our first lottery, and I have not gotten this now. However, the valid time of the license is half of one year. These years we are paying for our bank loan for the apartment, we did not save so many money for the car.

After all, buying a car is necessary in Beijing, especially for the family with a small baby. It is very convenient to take my daughter to kinder garten when raining or snowing or go to hospital in some case. Then we decided to borrow some money to buy a car.

For the car, I almost know nothing. In 2006, I got my drive license but did not drive since then. In Germany, I began to drive the rent car to visit some city with the direction of my friends on vice driver seat. I experienced many times sound horns on the street because of my un-skilled drive. At the beginning of driving, the car sometimes flameout because I release the clutch too fast. After several times training, I can drive the car in the city, village or highway. But I also need more experience, the traffic condition in Beijing is very good for drive training, so many cars are in street and many good drivers run fast in their rules.

I decided to buy an automatic gear car instead of manual gear, although automatic gear car will cost more gasoline and be a little experience.