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Bye Bye 1 Kuai? The End of China’s 1 Yuan Notes
According to CCTV finance, the central bank of China will stop the circulation of the 1 yuan notes (±0.15US$) in the provinces Fujian, Jiangxi, Shandong this year. Banks will switch to the use of 1 yuan coins only.
According to CCTV finance, the central bank of China will stop the circulation of the 1 yuan notes (±0.15US$) in the provinces Fujian, Jiangxi, Shandong this year. Banks will switch to the use of 1 yuan coins only. The discontinuation in these provinces indicates a possible gradual disappearance of the 1 yuan notes in the whole country.
The news became a trending topic on Sina Weibo on October 6, where netizens honor the 1 yuan note with the hashtag ‘Saying Goodbye to the One Yuan Bank Note’ (#要和1元纸币说再见了#)
One of the main reasons for the discontinuance of the famous 1 RMB note is that coins have a longer lifespan than notes and are better for the environment. According to numismatist McMorrow-Hernandez, the average dollar coin stays in circulation for 30 years, whereas a dollar bill will only stay in circulation a mere 18 months.
On Weibo, many netizens are sad about the gradual disappearance of China’s famous one-yuan notes. “I love paper money,” one netizen says: “Coins are too heavy!” Other Weibo commenters also complain, saying: “I don’t like coins, I always lose them.”
“I will start saving up one yuan notes for now, they’ll be antiques before we know it,” another netizen says.
Although one yuan bills will no longer be circulated by the bank in Fujian, Jiangxi and Shandong, they will still be accepted as currency.
– By Manya Koetse
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Hunan Man Kills Wife by Running Over Her Twice with SUV
The 22-year-old Hunan woman was killed by her husband after unsuccessfully filing for divorce.
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A fatal incident in which a man ran over his wife twice in front of an administrative office in Linxiang, Hunan, has become a trending topic on Chinese social media.
The incident happened on the morning of June 29, when the husband and wife met up to file for divorce. Due to an issue with the husband’s residence registration, they left the office unable to finalize their divorce.
The man, driving a white car, then reportedly had agreed to let his wife get some of her belongings from his car. But while approaching her by car, he suddenly sped up and hits her, after which he drove over her.
While some bystanders rushed to the victim who was laying on the sidewalk, the man turned his SUV around and ran over his wife a second time before fleeing the scene. A nearby driver captured the incident on a dash cam.
The woman, named Li, died at the hospital later that day. Li, mother of two children, was only 22 years old. The husband was later intercepted on the highway, and he has since been arrested. The case officially is still under investigation.
According to the victim’s cousin, who accompanied her to the administrative affairs office that day, the couple had since long separated and were only meeting to finalize the divorce. The cousin was just getting to her motorcycle at the parking place when Li was hit by the car.
On social media platform Weibo, hundreds of people responded to the news. “You can’t do this to anyone – let alone your own wife,” one commenter wrote, with others suggesting the man should be sentenced to death over what he did.
By Manya Koetse , with contributions by Miranda Barnes
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Chinese Twin Sisters Switched Identities to Illegally Travel Abroad over 30 Times
The lookalike sisters thought it was “convenient” to use each other’s passport to travel to Japan, Russia, Thailand and other countries.
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On June 27, a local public security bureau in the city of Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, released a press statement regarding the peculiar case of twin sisters who used each other’s identity to travel abroad over thirty times.
The two Zhou sisters, *Hong and *Wei (pseudonyms), started switching identities when Hong’s husband, a Japanese national, returned to Japan. Hong wanted to join her husband in Japan, but her visa application was repeatedly denied due to not meeting the requirements.
Hong then decided to use her sister’s travel documents to travel to Japan to see her husband various times. She reportedly also used her sister’s passport to travel to Russia. She ended up traveling between China, Russia, and Japan at least thirty times.
Wei, who reportedly thought this way of switching identities was “convenient”, also used her sister’s passport to travel to Thailand and some other countries on four different occasions.
After authorities found out what the sisters had been up to earlier in 2022, they were advised in May to return back to China. While the case is still under investigation, the sisters are now being held for the criminal offense of border management obstruction.
The case went trending in the hot-search topic list on Weibo, where many people are wondering how this could have happened so many times. “If you exit and enter the country, aren’t fingerprints collected?”, some wondered, with others saying the border technological systems were apparently not good enough to detect such identity fraud.
There were also those who thought the story was quite “amazing” and sounded “like the plot of a television series.”
By Manya Koetse
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