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8 unusual facts about Chinese Yuan


500 euro note

It is one of the highest value circulating banknotes in the world, worth around 630 USD, 4,000 CNY, 50,100 JPY, 600 CHF or 400 GBP.

Beiijing HsingHai Musical Instruments Corporation

They company's total assets as of 2008 were 629,000,000 Chinese yuan, its area is 300,000 square meters, and its floor space is approximately 170,000 square meters.

Cheng Yuelei

Cheng Yuelei transferred for 800,000 Yuan to Beijing Guoan and saw himself fight for the second choice goalkeeping position with Zhang Sipeng throughout much of the 2008 Chinese Super League campaign.

Chinese turret ship Dingyuan

To commemorate this period of history, the Weihai Port Bureau and local Weigao Group invested 50 million yuan (approximately US$6 million) to construct a replica Dingyuan.

Fu Bin

In the 1998 league season an offer of 2 million yuan was offered for him by Qianwei Huandao (now known as Chongqing Lifan) and despite achieving significant success with Beijing as well as regular playing time with the club he decided to leave and take the offer from Qianwei Huandao.

Solina Chau

In 2002, Chau invested RMB ¥ 1 million into an interactive voice-recognition service provider, Beijing Leitingwuji Nework Technology Company Limited (北京雷霆无极网络科技有限公司).

Wang Cheng

In 2003 his monthly salary was 1,600 yuan and he planned to supplement with 8,000 yuan a month in extracurricular funding, with a goal of amassing 100,000 yuan a year.

Wu Ping

On April 4, 2007 the house in central Chongqing was destroyed and Wu and her family received a one million yuan settlement plus a new apartment.


2011 Zhongshan riot

The villagers said the officials were not willing to give compensate 1.5 million yuan per mu of land.

Global Times

Hu Xijin, the editor-in-chief of both Chinese and English versions, stated that he expected it to make a loss of 20 million yuan in the first year.

Gu Chujun

As an outcome of the Lang–Gu dispute, in January 2008, Gu was sentenced to 12 years in prison and a fine of 6.8 million yuan after a conviction for falsifying corporate reports.

Hubin Campus, Zhejiang University

According to the Hangzhou civic plan, the campus was sold to the Hong Kong-based Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts (Robert Kuok, 郭鶴年/郭鹤年) at a price of 2.46 billion Chinese Yuan.

Renminbi

The yuan (元/圆) (sign: ¥) is the basic unit of the renminbi, but is also used as a synonym of the currency, especially in international contexts – the ISO 4217 standard code for renminbi is CNY, an acronym of “Chinese yuan” (a similar case is the use of the terms sterling and pound to designate the British currency and unit).


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Zhejiang Medical University

Due to the new civic plan for Hangzhou downtown, the campus was sold to the Hong Kong-based Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts (Robert Kuok, 郭鶴年/郭鹤年) at a price of 2.46 billion Chinese Yuan.