Paper is the main material for printing money, and the main component of RMB paper is short cotton wool. Banknote paper, which is made of 95% cotton wool and 5% wood pulp, uses a first-class cotton wool, and there is no whitening agent in banknote paper, so there will be no fluorescence reaction under purple light.

Renminbi paper is made of special banknote paper, which has smooth surface, toughness, folding resistance and good stiffness, has certain chemical corrosion resistance, can be used for a long time and is not easy to be damaged.

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1948 12 1 The People's Bank of China was established in Shijiazhuang, a liberated area in North China, and began to issue paper money, that is, the first set of RMB. This set of RMB has 12 denominations, with the maximum denomination of 50,000 yuan and the minimum denomination of 1 yuan. The words "People's Bank of China" on the ticket were personally inscribed by Comrade Dong, then Chairman of the People's Government of North China and in charge of financial work in the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.

Since China was in the period of the Liberation War, RMB was issued wherever the People's Liberation Army fought, so the first set of RMB was printed in more than ten places, including Shijiazhuang, Beiping, Shanghai, Tianjin, Xi 'an and Shenyang, with a total of 62 pages.

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