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1 Yuan Planting Trees Festival
| Issuer | People's Bank of China |
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| Year | 1991 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#338, Y#279 |
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| Reverse lettering | 1991 全民义务植树运动十周年 |
| Edge | Reeded |
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China's annual Arbor Day — observed every March 12th — was revived by state decree in 1979, directly tied to a national reforestation campaign responding to decades of deforestation accelerated during the Great Leap Forward. This coin was part of a short commemorative series the People's Bank issued through the late 1980s and into the 1990s to reinforce that campaign through circulating coinage. The nickel-clad steel composition was a deliberate cost-reduction from earlier aluminum issues as mintage volumes for themed 1 Yuan pieces increased.