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10 Yuan 30th Anniversary of Economic Reforms in China
| Issuer | People's Republic of China |
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| Year | 2008 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts a dynamic modernist cityscape in high relief, illustrating China's economic development, with tall skyscrapers, construction cranes, a suspension bridge, and an aircraft in flight occupying the central and upper field. The denomination 10元 appears in the right field. A broad panoramic frieze along the lower register portrays a dense urban and industrial landscape. The inscriptions 中国改革开放30周年纪念 (Commemorating the 30th Anniversary of China's Reform and Opening Up) are engraved in Chinese characters along the lower legend. |
| Reverse script | Chinese |
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The 30th anniversary marked in this coin falls in 2008, dating the reforms to Deng Xiaoping's watershed Third Plenum of the 11th Central Committee in December 1978 — the meeting that formally dismantled collective agriculture, introduced the household responsibility system, and opened China to foreign investment. The decision was not inevitable; conservative factions within the Party had blocked similar proposals twice in the preceding decade.
The coin was issued the same year Beijing hosted the Summer Olympics, making 2008 an unusually heavy year for Chinese commemorative silver output.