NANCHANG, Dec. 17 -- Five out of six government vehicles will be publicly auctioned, and government servants will have to budget their public car use, the Xinyu City government in east China's Jiangxi Province announced Tuesday.

The remaining one-sixth of government vehicles -- about 130 cars -- will be managed and supervised collectively by a public vehicle service center, according to the newly released regulations, which will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2014.

Public servants will receive a transportation card for car use with limited credit based on their ranks.

According to the local government, the move will save estimated administrative costs of up to 15 million yuan (2.47 million U.S. dollars) each year.

The move, supposedly the "severest reform on government vehicles" to be carried out by Xinyu, is one more step toward following the country's crackdown on inappropriate use of government vehicles and the resulting waste of public funds.