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Renminbi, the Chinese currency, is issued by the state
bank, the People's Bank of China. The standard unit of the Renminbi is yuan,
with jiao and fen as the subsidiary units. Thus one yuan equals ten jiao and one
jiao equals ten fen. Yuan, jiao and fen are issued both in bills of exchange and
coins. Renminbi features the following denominations: one, two, five, ten, fifty
and a hundred yuan; one, two, and five jiao; and one, two and five fen. The
abbreviation for Renminbi is RMB. Exchange rate (year of 2002) is
roughly: USD $1 = RMB£¤8.3 yuan.