Xinhua reported that, on March 29, 2013, the PLA General Staff Department, the Political Department, the Logistics Department, and the Armament Department jointly held a teleconference on carrying out the orders that President Xi and the Central Military gave on replacing license plates for all military vehicles. It was reported that the purpose of the new measure was to prevent “counterfeiting, wide distribution, misplacement, theft, and loss of military vehicle license plates."
Source: Xinhua, March 30, 2013
http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2013-03/30/c_124522432.htm