first thing i did when moving to Beijing was to take care for driving license ...

questions where somehow funny but not a big deal

rather than driving without insurance or even fake-plates i think is more critical to ride without the license!

if you have a accident you have to pay anyway coz you´re the foreigner with more money than most locals - sofor me also ridin' without insurance might not be so critical ...

also i heard that fro Beijing they already have a police-squad only for foreigners pulling motorcycles in the city without Jing-plate - heard the bike from a brazilian guy was confiscated coz' he was driving around sanlitun-lu with fake-plates ...

on my sidecar i have Hebei-plates but never drive into innercity ...

on my solo i have yellow Jing-a-plates but never ever been stopped!