1000 Yuan Farmer's Bank of Northwest China

The Farmer's Bank of Northwest China was a Communist-controlled regional bank operating in the Shaan-Gan-Ning Border Region — the revolutionary base area centered on Yan'an that the Chinese Communist Party administered from the mid-1930s through the civil war years. Notes issued here circulated within a tightly controlled regional economy largely cut off from Nationalist financial networks, and the 1946 date places this squarely in the uneasy post-Japan interlude before full-scale civil war resumed.

High-denomination border region notes from this period are disproportionately scarce. Paper quality in the liberated areas was poor, notes wore out quickly, and surviving examples were frequently destroyed or abandoned during military retreats and base relocations. The 1000 Yuan figure also reflects the inflationary pressures affecting all Chinese currency by 1946, Communist-issued or otherwise.