Time	Text number	Main content
January 2009	Finance and Taxation [2009] No. 12	Purchase passenger cars with a displacement of 1.6 liters or less and temporarily reduce the vehicle purchase tax at a rate of 5%.
March 2012	Finance and Taxation [2012] No. 19	For vehicles and vessels that save energy, the vehicle and vessel tax will be halved; for vehicles and vessels that use new energy, the vehicle and vessel tax will be exempted.
April 2013	Finance and Construction [2013] No. 183	Special funds are arranged from the vehicle purchase tax for the old car scrap renewal subsidy.
August 2014	China Ministry of Finance, State Administration of Taxation, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology No. 53 of 2014	New energy vehicles listed in the Catalogue of New Energy Vehicles Exempted from Vehicle Purchase Tax are exempt from vehicle purchase tax.
September 2015	Finance and Taxation [2015] No. 104	Continue to levy a vehicle purchase tax on the purchase of 1.6-liter and below-displacement passenger cars at a reduced rate of 5%.
July 2016	Finance and Taxation [2016] No. 84	Public utility vehicles purchased by city bus companies are exempt from vehicle purchase tax.
December 2017	China Ministry of Finance Announcement No. 172 of 2017	Continue to purchase new energy vehicles listed in the Catalogue of New Energy Vehicles Exempt from Vehicle Purchase Tax. Vehicle purchase tax is exempted.
July 2018	Finance and Taxation [2018] No. 74	Continue to save the vehicle and vessel tax on energy-saving vehicles; for new energy vehicles and ships, exemption from vehicle and vessel tax.