Following up on their major drunk driving crackdown earlier this year, China is now introducing a new law that will tighten the rules even further for drink and drive offenders. The new law states that motorists who are caught driving under the influence of alcohol will lose all of their demerit points.
Drunk driving now an auto suspension on your license
Friends don't let friends drive drunk... or they face penalties
The latest step in a series of drunk driving crackdown, new national laws have been issued to punish DUIs. Besides harsher restrictions on "light" penalties and a lowering of the legal level of blood alcohol content (BAC), the laws now say that people who are willing catch a ride with a drunk driver can face penalties themselves.
Shanghai twice as likely to drive drunk than rest of China
Shanghai Daily has some startling statistics about drunk driving in our city - according to a study released yesterday, we have almost double the amount of fatal road accidents related to DUIs (8.3%) than that of the national average (4.16%). Last year, over 6% of traffic accidents in Shanghai were caused by drunk driving.
Look what the drunk driving crackdown dragged in...
So Shanghai may have found a ridiculous amount of drunk drivers during the most recent ten day crackdown on drunk driving (1200 people!), but it didn't even make it into the top nine worst offenders.

