# Chinese Standard Date

Key: `datetime.date.chinese_ymd`

Year-Month-Day with Chinese character delimiters. Standard in Chinese government, institutional data, and formal documents. Uses Unicode characters for year, month, day markers.

Page: <https://meridian.online/docs/projects/finetype/types/datetime/date/chinese_ymd>

Samples: `2024年1月15日`, `2023年12月25日`, `2022年6月1日`

## Background

### Origin

GB/T 9704—2012, 党政机关公文格式 (Layout key for official document of Party and government organs), is a national standard of the People's Republic of China that replaces GB/T 9704—1999.[[1]](https://mtxy.edu.cn/uploads/file/20190612/1560324093862873.pdf) GB/T 9704—2012 was published on 2012-06-29 and took effect on 2012-07-01.[[1]](https://mtxy.edu.cn/uploads/file/20190612/1560324093862873.pdf) GB/T 9704—2012 was issued by 中华人民共和国国家质量监督检验检疫总局 and 中国国家标准化管理委员会.[[1]](https://mtxy.edu.cn/uploads/file/20190612/1560324093862873.pdf) For the date an official document is written (成文日期), GB/T 9704—2012 requires the year, month and day to be written out in Arabic numerals, with the year in full.[[1]](https://mtxy.edu.cn/uploads/file/20190612/1560324093862873.pdf)

### Use

In the Unicode CLDR locale data for Chinese (zh), the long and medium Gregorian date patterns are both y年M月d日.[[2]](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/unicode-org/cldr-json/main/cldr-json/cldr-dates-full/main/zh/ca-gregorian.json) In the Unicode CLDR locale data for Traditional Chinese (zh-Hant), the long Gregorian date pattern is y年M月d日.[[3]](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/unicode-org/cldr-json/main/cldr-json/cldr-dates-full/main/zh-Hant/ca-gregorian.json) In the Unicode CLDR locale data for Japanese (ja), the long Gregorian date pattern is also y年M月d日.[[4]](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/unicode-org/cldr-json/main/cldr-json/cldr-dates-full/main/ja/ca-gregorian.json)

### Where you'll meet it

On gov.cn, the closing date line of the State Council General Office's opinion 国办发〔2024〕1号 is written 2024年1月11日, without padding.[[5]](https://www.gov.cn/zhengce/content/202401/content_6926087.htm)

## Sources

1. [GB/T 9704—2012 党政机关公文格式](https://mtxy.edu.cn/uploads/file/20190612/1560324093862873.pdf) — standard
2. [cldr-json/cldr-dates-full/main/zh/ca-gregorian.json](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/unicode-org/cldr-json/main/cldr-json/cldr-dates-full/main/zh/ca-gregorian.json) — standard
3. [cldr-json/cldr-dates-full/main/zh-Hant/ca-gregorian.json](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/unicode-org/cldr-json/main/cldr-json/cldr-dates-full/main/zh-Hant/ca-gregorian.json) — standard
4. [cldr-json/cldr-dates-full/main/ja/ca-gregorian.json](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/unicode-org/cldr-json/main/cldr-json/cldr-dates-full/main/ja/ca-gregorian.json) — standard
5. [国务院办公厅关于发展银发经济增进老年人福祉的意见\_其他\_中国政府网](https://www.gov.cn/zhengce/content/202401/content_6926087.htm) — organisation