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Time, measures and weights of China
Although China spans 5 time zones Beijing Time is only used as the standard time of the whole country. Beijing Time is 8 hours ahead GMT, 6 hours ahead Cairo Time, 13 hours ahead New York Time and 2 hours behind Melbourne Time. In the western part of China, such as Tibet and Xinjiang Uigur Autonomous Region people will go to work 2 hours later than Beijing.
China widely used traditional measures and weights as well as metric system. The conversion tables are as follows:
Units of Linear Measure
metric
system |
symbol |
traditional
Chinese system |
British
system |
kilometre |
km |
2(li) |
0.6214 (mile) |
metre |
m |
3(chi) |
3.2808(foot, ft)
1.0936(yard, yd) |
centimetre |
cm |
3(fen) |
0.3937(inch, in)
|
1(nautical mile, nmi)=1.85km=3.704li=1.15mile
Units of Area Measure
metric
system |
symbol |
traditional
Chinese system |
British
system |
square kilometre |
k©O |
4(li2), 1500(mu) |
0.3861(sq mi,
mi2) 100(hectare,ha) 247.1(acre) |
square metre |
©O |
9(chi2) |
10.7639(square
foot, sqft2) 1.1960(square yard, yd2) |
hectare, 10000sqre
metre |
ha |
15(mu) |
2.74(acre) |
Units of cubic measure
1cubic metre=35.3147 cubic foot=1.308cubic yard
Unit of capacity measure
1liter=0.22gallon(British)=1.7598pint=0.264gallon(American)
Units of weight
1metric ton(tonne)=0.9842(long ton UK)=1.1023(short ton, American)
1kg=2.2046(pound)
Conversion of temperature
¨H(Fahrenheit)=¡æ(Centigrade)¡Á1.8+32
¡æ(Centigrade)=(¨H(Fahrenheit)£32)¡Á0.56
| ¡æ(Centigrade) | -40 | -35 | -30 | -25 | -20 | -17.8 | -10 | -5 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 15 | 20c | 25 | 30 | 35 | 40 | 100 |
| ¨H(Fahrenheit) | -40 | -31 | -22 | -13 | -4 | 0 | 14 | 23 | 32 | 41 | 50 | 59 | 68 | 77 | 86 | 95 | 104 | 212 |
