Chapter 38 Section 3 Establishment of the Municipal System and Implementation of the Meter System

In 1927, the Nanjing government was established. It felt that weights and measures were closely related to national politics and people's welfare. It proposed a unified weights and measures bill again. Then it organized the Weights and Measures Standards Committee to conduct research on weights and measures standards. It proposed more than a dozen proposals, and finally decided to adopt the proposals of Xu Shanxiang and Wu Chengluo. , that is, it is planned to adopt the meter system, but in the transitional period, it is advisable to adopt the ratio of one meter to three city chi, one liter to one city liter, and one kilogram to two city catties.Since the municipal system not only roughly follows the measurement value of the building chikuping system, but also has a simple and accurate ratio to the measurement value of the meter system, after repeated discussions at the meeting, this proposal was unanimously agreed, and the "Republic of China Authority" was formulated in 1928. Standard Program” to be published.In order to ensure the implementation of the plan, various ministries of the central government and national chambers of commerce jointly organized the Weights and Measures Implementation Committee to formulate a unified procedure for national weights and measures and promulgate the "Law of Weights and Measures".According to the "Law of Weights and Measures", all regions of the country will be divided into regions according to the different conditions of transportation and economic development, and the metric system and the municipal system will be gradually implemented in stages.However, due to the decline of the national economy and the decline of industry, science and technology, and education, the metric system was not implemented nationwide; only the municipal system, which is closely related to people's lives, gradually became popular in commercial guilds in various provinces and cities.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the city-use system was generally adopted throughout the country. In 1984, the State Council issued an order to implement the national system of units based on the International System of Units, while selecting some legal units of measurement of the People's Republic of China not composed of the International System of Units, and stipulated that by the end of 1990, the country should complete the transition to legal units of measurement.Since then, the legal unit of measurement has become the only legal unit of measurement in my country. In 1985, the state promulgated the "Measurement Law of the People's Republic of China", which further improved the legal management of my country's measurement.Metrology work will play a greater role in economic construction, national defense construction, scientific research, commercial trade and social life.