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Beijing Private Tour：Chinese Currency

Chinese Currency (Ren-Min-Bi)

Chinese money is called Renminbi (RMB) means "The People's Currency". The popular unit of RMB is yuan" The official exchange rate between U.S. dollar and Renminbi yuan currently is about 1:8 (1 dollar = 8 yuan, 1 yuan equals 10 jiao, 1 jiao equals 10 fen. There are parts of China where the yuan is also known as Kuai and Jiao is known as mao. Chinese currency is issued in the following denominations: one, two, five, ten, twenty, fifty and one hundred yuan; one, two and five jiao; and one, two and five fen.

1. Chinese Paper Currency


100 yuan	100 yuan (new)

50 yuan	50 yuan

50 yuan (new)	50 yuan (new)

20 yuan	20 yuan

10 yuan	10 yuan

10 yuan (new)	10 yuan (new)

5 yuan	5 yuan

5 yuan (new)	5 yuan (new)

2 yuan	2 yuan

1 yuan (new, issued in July 2004)	1 yuan (new, issued in July 2004)

1 yuan	1 yuan

5 jiao (0.5 yuan)	5 jiao (0.5 yuan)

2 jiao (0.2 yuan)	2 jiao (0.2 yuan)

1 jiao (0.1 yuan)	1 jiao (0.1 yuan)

2. Chinese Coins


From top to the bottom: 1 yuan, 5 jiao (0.5 yuan), 1 jiao (0.1 yuan)	From top to the bottom: 5 fen (0.05 yuan), 2 fen (0.02 yuan), 1 fen (0.01 yuan)