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China, a country that is of roughly similar size to the continental United States, has one time zone: Beijing Standard Time. China hasnt always had one time zone. In 1912, the year after the collapse of the Qing Dynasty, the newly empowered Republic of China established five different time zones in the country, ranging from five and a half to eight and a half hours past Greenwich Mean Time. But in 1949, as the Communist Party consolidated control of the country, Chairman Mao Zedong decreed that all of China would henceforth be on Beijing time for the purposes of national unity.
Posted on: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 01:02:32 +0000

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