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Romania vs China Dashboard: Time Gap, Exchange Rate, 10 Indicators, Trade, Distance
One page answers “how do Romania and China actually differ”: what time it is, how money converts, the 10 indicators, bilateral trade, the distance between capitals — everything named and checkable.
Rates are the ECB daily fixings (not sell rates); indicators are World Bank 2024 values (area 2023); trade is academic BACI data; distance is a computed great-circle. Every figure carries its year.
Three things to grasp first: this page sets figures side by side with no “who is more developed” verdicts; cards refresh yearly, with no real-time promise; the converter uses the fixing only, not counter rates.
Two clocks: Bucharest ⇄ Shanghai
The gap badge = the two IANA zone offsets at the same instant (Shanghai fixed at UTC+8; Bucharest +3 in summer / +2 in winter under EU rules), recomputed every second — no lookup tables, no hardcoded 5/6.
Gap
Converter: RON ⇄ CNY ⇄ EUR
Formula: amount × rate[to] ÷ rate[from] (rate[X] = X per EUR, ECB daily fixing). The fixing is not a sell rate; counters add their own spread.
Fixing anchors: 1 RON = 1.4634 CNY · 1 CNY ≈ 0.68335 RON · 1 EUR = 5.2624 RON = 7.7009 CNY (ECB 2026-09-17)
10 World Bank indicator cards
Each card: CN+RO values + the numeric relation (one-sentence template) + year + definition + direct World Bank link. Area is 2023 (2024 null both, verified), the rest 2024.
People
Population
CN $1.41B · RO 19.05M
1,408,975,000 CN · 19,051,804 RO
China's population is 74.0× Romania's (difference $1.39B).
Data year: 2024 · Total midyear population (World Bank WDI).
Land area
CN 9.39M · RO 230.1K
9,388,210 CN · 230,080 RO
China's land area is 40.8× Romania's (difference 9.16M sq km).
Data year: 2023 · Land area in sq km (excluding inland waters).
Urbanization
CN 65.89% · RO 52.17%
65.8946980998325 / 52.1674778928768
China higher by 13.73 percentage points.
Data year: 2024 · Urban population share (national statistical definitions).
Money
GDP (current US$)
CN $18.73T · RO $382.56B
18,729,668,435,848 CN · 382,564,217,988.866 RO
China's GDP is 49.0× Romania's (difference $18.35T USD).
Data year: 2024 · Gross domestic product in current US dollars.
GDP per capita
CN $13.3K · RO $20.1K
13,293.1162 CN · 20,080.2096 RO
Romania's per-capita figure is 1.51× China's (difference $6,787 USD).
Data year: 2024 · GDP divided by midyear population (current US dollars).
GDP growth
CN 4.96% · RO 0.92%
4.95830378788091 / 0.916003764382594
China higher by 4.04 percentage points.
Data year: 2024 · Annual GDP growth at constant prices (%).
Inflation (CPI)
CN 0.22% · RO 5.72%
0.218128938439177 / 5.72140574354439
Romania higher by 5.50 percentage points.
Data year: 2024 · Annual consumer-price inflation (%).
Life
Life expectancy
CN 78.02 years · RO 76.46 years
78.017 / 76.4585365853659
China higher by 1.56 years.
Data year: 2024 · Life expectancy at birth (years).
Connectivity
Internet use
CN 92.00% · RO 91.29%
92 / 91.29048551
China higher by 0.71 percentage points.
Data year: 2024 · Share of the population using the internet (%).
Mobile subscriptions (per 100)
CN 131.75 per 100 · RO 119.80 per 100
131.753932036803 / 119.804862328273
China higher by 11.95 per 100.
Data year: 2024 · Mobile cellular subscriptions per 100 people (incl. multi-SIM).
Bilateral trade (BACI)
BACI is reconciled academic data whose methodology differs slightly from national customs; totals by direction only, no line detail.
BACI 2024
CN→RO $8.78B · RO→CN $2.44B
8,782,431,181 / 2,441,036,123 USD
vs 2023: CN→RO +17.8% · RO→CN +30.3%
2023: CN→RO $7.46B · RO→CN $1.87B
Data year: 2024 (oec-fetch)
Distance: Bucharest OTP ⇄ Beijing PEK
Self-computed great-circle (OurAirports database coordinates, non-AIP values; the method page says so).
OTP ⇄ PEK
7,054.2 km
OTP 44.571792N 26.103285E · PEK 40.077349N 116.596702E · R=6371.0088 km
Nonstop: since 2026-09-04, Air China CA913/CA914 3× weekly; timetable OTP→PEK about 9 hours 40 minutes, PEK→OTP about 10 hours 50 minutes.
Coordinates retrieved: 2026-09-17 · OurAirports coords, non-AIP (honest ceiling)
Method notes
- World Bank WDI (CC BY-4.0): direct links on each card; attribution on the method page.
- ECB eurofxref daily fixing: build-time vintage stamped on the converter; frozen if the XML lags over 5 business days.
- BACI/OEC tesseract (HS6): Year cut + row-level Year check; the wrongly taken multi-year totals ($90B/$25B) are void (see method).
- Clocks: derived from IANA rules; 2026 transitions on 3-29/10-25 at 01:00Z.
- Distance: haversine, R=6371.0088 km, coordinates on the method page.
- Nonstop flight: since 2026-09-04, Air China Beijing–Bucharest 3× weekly (timetable at method, D6).
Questions
How many hours apart are Romania and China?
6 hours in winter, 5 in summer — but don't memorize figures, watch the badge: it derives live from IANA rules and flips by itself in transition weeks.
How many yuan is 1 leu?
See the converter. That's the ECB fixing, not a sell rate; real exchanges follow counter rates.
Is GDP per capita higher in Romania?
On World Bank 2024 current-US$ methodology: Romania about $20,080, China about $13,293. The page sets figures side by side, with no “who is more developed” verdicts.
How fresh are the figures?
Bank cards yearly; rates at each daily build (per ECB publication); trade at BACI's yearly vintage. Expiry rules are on the method page.
Lifecycle
Version-pinned snapshots; corrections roll back to the last all-green snapshot with a dated note; source links checked quarterly.