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100 Yuan 60th Anniversary of the Founding of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps
| Issuer | People's Bank of China |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Reference(s) | KM# 2189 |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a finely detailed proof relief scene depicting a group of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps workers engaged in land surveying and agricultural development, rendered in a heroic socialist-realist style across the central field. Multiple figures are shown in coordinated labor, with surveying instruments and tools prominently featured against a landscape background evoking the arid terrain of Xinjiang. The curved inscription '新疆生产建设兵团成立60周年' (60th Anniversary of the Founding of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps) arcs along the upper periphery in Chinese characters. The denomination '100元' appears in relief in the lower right portion of the field. |
| Reverse script | Chinese/Latin |
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The Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps — known in Chinese as Bingtuan — was established in 1954 when the People's Liberation Army units stationed in Xinjiang were demobilized in place and ordered to farm, rather than return home. The arrangement was explicitly colonial-agricultural in design: soldiers became settlers, building irrigation networks and breaking desert soil in a region Beijing considered both strategically vital and demographically thin. By 2014, the Corps had grown into a quasi-governmental entity of roughly 2.7 million people operating its own courts, police, and legislative bodies entirely parallel to the Xinjiang regional government.
The commemorative gold issue marks sixty years from that 1954 founding order.