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What's the time difference in China?

China spans five time zones: East Five, East Six, East Seven, East Eight and East Nine. China uses Beijing time uniformly in the East Eighth District, so Beijing time is 0: 00, East Ninth District in the morning 1, East Fifth District 2 1, East Sixth District at 22: 00 and East Seventh District at 23: 00.

Wu Dong is mainly located in southwest Xinjiang and northwest Tibet.

Liu Dong District is mainly located in most parts of Xinjiang, most parts of Tibet, western Gansu and western Qinghai.

Dongqi District is mainly located in western Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, eastern Gansu, Shaanxi, western Shanxi, western Henan, western Hubei, western Hunan, Sichuan, Chongqing, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, western Guangdong and Hainan.

Dongba District is located in eastern Inner Mongolia, western Heilongjiang, western Jilin, Liaoning, Hebei, Beijing, Tianjin, eastern Shanxi, Shandong, eastern Henan, Anhui, Jiangsu, Shanghai, eastern Hubei, eastern Hunan, eastern Guangdong, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Fujian and Taiwan Province provinces.

Dongjiu District is located in the east of Heilongjiang and Jilin.

Extended data:

In order to take care of the convenience of use in various regions and facilitate people from other places to take their local conversion of time to other places. The relevant international conference decided to divide the earth's surface from east to west along the meridian, and stipulated that the time difference between adjacent areas was 1 hour. People at the eastern and western ends of the same area can see the sunrise within 1 hour at most. When people cross the street,

Area, you will correct your clock 1 hour (west 1 hour, east 1 hour) and add or subtract several hours when crossing several areas. This is very convenient to use. Today, the world is divided into 24 time zones. Because in practice, 1 country or 1 province often spans two or more time zones at the same time, 1 country or 1 province is often grouped together for administrative convenience. Therefore, the time zone is not strictly divided by the north-south straight line, but by natural conditions. For example, China is a vast country, spanning almost five time zones. However, for the sake of convenience and simplicity, in fact, only the time zone standard of Dongba is used, which is based on Beijing time.

References:

Time Zone-Baidu Encyclopedia