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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