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Large variance in the appearance of the same vehicle captured by different cameras and high similarity of different vehicles with the same model poses challenges for vehicle re-identification. Most existing methods use a center proxy to represent a vehicle identity; however, the intra-class variance leads to great difficulty in fitting images of the same identity to one center feature and the images with high similarity belonging to different identities cannot be separated effectively. In this paper, we propose a sampling strategy considering different viewpoints and a multi-proxy constraint loss function which represents a class with multiple proxies to perform different constraints on images of the same vehicle from different viewpoints. Our proposed sampling strategy contributes to better mine samples corresponding to different proxies in a mini-batch using the camera information. The multi-proxy constraint loss function pulls the image towards the furthest proxy of the same class and pushes the image from the nearest proxy of different class further away, resulting in a larger margin between decision boundaries. Extensive experiments on two large-scale vehicle datasets (VeRi and VehicleID) demonstrate that our learned global features using a single-branch network outperforms previous works with more complicated network and those that further re-rank with spatio-temporal information. 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