Time in China | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 13/12/2018

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Time in China


00:00:57 1 History
00:05:06 2 Geography
00:05:40 3 Regions with special time regulations
00:05:50 3.1 Xinjiang
00:07:56 3.2 Hong Kong
00:08:43 3.3 Macau
00:09:15 4 IANA time zone database
00:09:44 4.1 Backward compatibility zone
00:10:06 5 See also



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SUMMARY
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The time in China follows a single standard time offset of UTC+08:00 (eight hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time), despite China spanning five geographical time zones. The official national standard time is called Beijing Time (Chinese: 北京时间) domestically  and China Standard Time (CST) internationally. Daylight saving time has not been observed since 1991.The special administrative regions (SARs) maintain their own time authorities, with standards called Hong Kong Time (香港時間) and Macau Standard Time (澳門標準時間). These have been equivalent to Beijing time since 1992.
In addition, it has been proposed during 2005's NPC & CPPCC of China that provinces in the west (such as Shaanxi, Sichuan, and Chongqing) should use the time offset of UTC+07:00. However, this proposal has not been voted upon yet..