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5 Jiao
| Issuer | People's Bank of China |
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| Year | 1980 |
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| Value | 5 Jiao (伍角) (0.5 CNY) |
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| Obverse lettering | 中国人民银行 伍角 (Translation: People's Bank of China, Five Jiao) |
| Reverse description | The national emblem of the People's Republic of China — Tiananmen Gate beneath five stars — occupies the centre, flanked on each side by a large numeral 5. The legend ZHONGGUO RENMIN YINHANG runs along the top in Latin script, with WU JIAO appearing below the right-hand numeral. Along the bottom, the bank name and denomination are repeated in traditional Mongolian, Tibetan, Uyghur, and Zhuang scripts, reflecting China's principal minority languages. The date 1980 appears within the lower design area. |
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The 1980 series — the fourth series of Renminbi — was the first to be designed entirely under post-Mao reform conditions, authorized as China reopened to foreign trade and began dismantling the command economy. The 5 Jiao denomination circulated heavily in daily transactions throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s, when small-value notes took real punishment from street markets and transport fares.
Printed entirely domestically, unlike some earlier series issues that relied on Soviet assistance or foreign presses. The fourth series was also notable for reintroducing ethnic minority imagery after years of ideological suppression — a deliberate political gesture by the reform-era government.