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A Metrication Committee poster in Sheung Wan Imperial units being used to weigh fruit in a stall in Hong Kong, 2008. Hong Kong has three main systems of units of measurement in current use: The Chinese units of measurement of the Qing Empire (no longer in widespread use in mainland China); [citation needed] British Imperial units; and; The ...
The law allowed a gradual replacement of the Imperial units and Chinese units of measurement in favour of the International System of Units Metric System. The adoption was facilitated under the government's Metrication Committee. [1] Decades after the enactment of the law, Hong Kong still has not yet fully completed the metrication process.
The Hong Kong SAR continues to use its traditional units, now legally defined based on a local equation with metric units. For instance, the Hong Kong catty is precisely 604.789 82 g. Note: The names lí (釐 or 厘) and fēn (分) for small units are the same for length, area, and mass; however, they refer to different kinds of measurements.
A spring scale in Hong Kong shows conversions between metric system (in red), traditional Chinese unit (in green) and British Imperial Units (in blue). Jin (Chinese: 斤; pinyin: jīn), or gan in Cantonese, kin in Taiwanese and Japanese, also called "Chinese pound" or "catty", [a] is a traditional Chinese unit for weight measurement in East Asia.
On 24 August 1992, Macau published Law No. 14/92/M that Chinese units of measurement similar to those used in Hong Kong, Imperial units, and United States customary units would be permissible for five years since the effective date of the Law, 1 January 1993, on the condition of indicating the corresponding International System of Units (SI ...
LONDON/HONG KONG (Reuters) -The rule of law in Hong Kong is profoundly compromised in areas of the law where the government has strong opinions, a British judge who recently resigned from the top ...
The tael is a legal weight measure in Hong Kong, and is still in active use. [2] In Hong Kong, one tael is 37.799364167 g, [2] and in ordinance 22 of 1884 is 1 + 1 ⁄ 3 oz. avoir. Similar to Hong Kong, in Singapore, one tael is defined as 1 + 1 ⁄ 3 ounce and is approximated as 37.7994 g [3]
Hong Kong: Imperial, Chinese: Metric is the legislated dominant system of measurement, however Chinese units and imperial units are still legal under Weights and Measures Ordinance. The usage of Chinese units or imperial units are still common on fresh food sales (e.g. wet markets), and real estates still use square foot as area measurement ...