Taxi passengers in Beijing will have an extra 1 yuan added to their fares within days after the city's fuel price hit its highest level in years.
Under a new municipal government policy, passengers will pay an extra 1 yuan for each trip they make as a fuel surcharge.
Passengers with a 10 yuan fare - the smallest journey possible - will not have to pay the surcharge.
It follows a price increase for gasoline. The city's 66,000 cab drivers currently pay 6.66 yuan for each liter of fuel.
The policy stipulates that the price of taxi fares could rise further if gasoline prices rise above 7.1 yuan.
The last change in taxi fares was in 2006, when it was increased to 2.4 yuan per km.
The government refused to reveal when the new pricing system would take effect, but FM103.9 Beijing Communications Radio quoted anonymous sources as saying the policy would come into force "in the next few days".
