Design process of national currency BRICS

The fourth set of RMB has the longest planning and design time. 1967 was used. At that time, the Head Office put forward the idea of designing the fourth set of RMB, and it was not finalized until May 1985. After twists and turns, all kinds of extreme left interference were eliminated, and the design disaster of the fourth set of RMB was finally avoided.

1967 1, the head office of the People's Bank of China reported to the State Council that someone from Hubei Institute of Mechanical Engineering sharply criticized the lack of Chairman Mao's statue, red flag and slogan in Tiananmen Square with a coupon of 1 yuan, and put forward the design idea of the new version of RMB. In February, Li Xiannian instructed: "A new set of RMB should be prepared, and the design screen should reflect the theme of production relations more to overcome the problem that the third set of RMB productivity has many themes." 1On July 6th, 968, the Head Office submitted the first draft of the new RMB design scheme to the State Council for the first time, with the themes of "Three Highlights" (highlighting the glorious image of Chairman Mao, Mao Zedong Thought and Chairman Mao's revolutionary line) and "Two Reflections" (reflecting the great proletarian cultural revolution and socialist revolution and construction), which was severely criticized by Premier Zhou at that time. On April 8th, 1969, the Head Office submitted a new version of RMB design draft to the State Council for the second time. The coupon screen mainly reflected the ultra-left content, but it still failed. Later, it was abandoned because of the collapse of the anti-party clique in Lin Biao. 1975165438+1October 18. The Ministry of Finance (at that time, the People's Bank of China merged with the Ministry of Finance) submitted a report on designing and printing a new version of RMB to the State Council for the third time. The drawings of the design scheme mainly reflect the new socialist things and the image of workers, peasants and soldiers, such as educated youth going to the countryside, workers, peasants and soldiers going to college, agricultural Dazhai, industrial Daqing and so on. In the same year. 1976 May 10 asked for instructions again, and Li Xiannian gave instructions: "Not for the time being." The contents of the three schemes reported above are all reflections of the ultra-left ideology of the "Cultural Revolution", but they are all excluded under the guidance of the correct line of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, so that the ultra-left ideology cannot be reflected in the national currency.

In the process of designing the fourth set of RMB, on July 6, 198 1 year, the head office instructed to design three kinds of banknotes with large denominations of 20 yuan, 50 yuan and 100 yuan, which were designed by Beijing Banknote Printing Factory, with Taishan, xinhua gate, the Great Hall of the People, the Three Gorges, Tiananmen Square and the Great Wall as the main scenes. 165438+1October 4, the head office formally submitted a report on printing and issuing three kinds of large denomination banknotes, explaining the reasons in detail, but this report was not approved. On February 29th, 1984, the Head Office submitted the report of printing large denomination banknotes again. On March 4, the State Council gave instructions: "Agree to go to press, and when to issue it will be submitted for approval separately." 65438 1 23 October, the head office submitted the "request for instructions on publishing the new version of RMB and changing the design theme of large denomination banknotes", claiming that the original design of the three large denomination banknotes did not conform to the approved design theme of1to 10 yuan banknotes, and reorganized the expert design to cancel the 20 yuan banknotes, with the heads of workers, farmers and intellectuals on the front and the map of the Yellow River on the back. 1985 in may, the State Council executive meeting discussed and passed. At this point, the fourth set of RMB design has been completed.