Renminbi: Difference between revisions

| rarely_used_coins = ¥0.01, ¥0.02, ¥0.05, ¥5, ¥10

The '''renminbi''' ({{zh|c=人民币|p=Rénmínbì|l=People's Currency}}; [[currency symbol|symbol]]: '''[[Yen and yuan sign|¥]]'''; [[ISO 4217|ISO code]]: '''CNY'''; [[abbreviation]]: '''RMB'''), also known as '''Chinese Yuan''' is the official [[currency]] of the [[China|People's Republic of China]].{{efn|Excluding [[Special administrative regions of China|special administrative regions]] Hong Kong and Macau.}} The renminbi is issued by the [[People's Bank of China]], the [[Central bank|monetary authority]] of China.<ref>Article 2, {{cite web |date=27 December 2003 |title=The People's Bank of China Law of the People's Republic of China |url=http://www.cin.gov.cn/law/main/2004010802.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070320211302/http://www.cin.gov.cn/law/main/2004010802.htm |archive-date=20 March 2007}}</ref> It is the world's [[Template:Most traded currencies|fifth most traded currency]] as of April 2022.<ref name=BIS>{{cite web|title=Triennial Central Bank Survey Foreign exchange turnover in April 2022|url=https://www.bis.org/statistics/rpfx22_fx.pdf|publisher=Bank for International Settlements|access-date=31 October 2022|page=5|date=27 October 2022|archive-date=27 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221027140118/https://www.bis.org/statistics/rpfx22_fx.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>

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