Local Firms Petition for Mor4 Time eon raised by many merchants in Shanghai to the law which provides for radical [changes in the present Chinese weights and measures standards effective from July 1. The new fmetrie system which will be subs stituted for old Chinese standards will incur complete revision of busi" hess records of many houses as well Jas the ye-graduation of scales. Busi~ ness houses say that this revision jean not be effected by July 1.
Local Chambers of Commerce are petitioning the Minister of Indus tries at Nanking for a, three months" extension of time to pre= pave for the new system. It. is thought that, in as much as the Taw been on the. statute books for years. but unenforced in prac tice, the Central Government "will grant the extension, Regulations of. the Law provide for the fining to $100 of a company, selling sales of "old graduations. White this law can be enforced only fon Chinese citizens, conditions will be such that foreign firms in China will also have to abide by the lave import "and export exchange as well as trade with inland concerns, hone of which will use the old sys~ fern, will make necessary the change tothe metric system by all come panies.
'A table of comparisons of stand. ards of the old and mew "system twas, published inthe May issue of the Chinese Economic Bulletin. The following information is. given:
In China, standards of weights, measures and length vary, all over the country. Generally speaking, two Kinds of standards are now in' use, the old and. the new, The old standard was formulated from the Weights. and Measures Law. pro= mulgated in 1914, establishing a double system, the standard metric unit and, that based on ying toa lith, oF "builder's foot" for length fand Kuping tael or hong for weight 'The law governing. the new stand fard_was promulgated by the tional Government on Feb, 6, 10% Jand it is intended tobe the' logan standard. of weights and, measures acceptable throughout China, For convenience sake none lary usage it also established bio system; one isthe -standa rie unit and the other, which is rary in nature and tobe abolished as soon as the people are Jaccustomed to the use of standard units, is designed only for market se. "However, the latter, 18. dew ved from the former by taking one liter of Kung Sheng as one Shih Sheng, which is nearest tothe Chie Sheng: one halt kilogram ao one ese customary unit of" eapact
Shih Chin, which is. the "Chin" in different locality lone third of a meter ey Kui fas one Shih Ch'sh which system of Chinese sures bused on International standard, Such a system as devised by the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Labour and proclaimed Foot-Pound" system by taking the following approximate value: 1 quart equals to 1 liter, 1 Jequals to & kilogram and 1" yard equals to 1 meter. 'The Russian and Japanese system' can also be thus ly, varied accordingly so as to get theme selves to the International System,
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