Damaged notes: Workers putting bags of old bills into a shredding machine at the bank note processing centre in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, early this month.
Regarded as the country’s business cards, the yuan must remain in mint condition, therefore destroying the damaged notes is as important as printing new ones.
ON Nov 5, workers at a biomass power plant in Yancheng, in China’s Jiangsu province, opened the door of a truck and watched as 34 metric tonnes of blocks of shredded, compressed green paper tumbled to the ground.
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