John:
 
As far as I know, the PRC (Peoples' Republic of China) uses SI for almost everything.
 
There may still be some exceptions, though, in the former British colony of Hong Kong. I bought a couple of 24 karat (i.e., pure) gold chains there, 16 years ago. Their mass was expressed in taels (1 tael = 37.4 g). I think the use of taels is/was confined to the precious metals trade.
 

Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]

 
 
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Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 08:51
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:27004] Question

Hello everyone.  Does anybody know if the country of Main Land China use the metric system, or do they use imperial, or their own measureing system?  I would be interested to know this. Thanks.     

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