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5 Yuan enhanced security
| Issuer | People's Bank of China |
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| Year | 2020 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 中国人民银行 5 5 伍圆 毛泽东 1893-1976 |
| Reverse description | Vignette of sunrise over Mount Tai (泰山, Tài Shān), one of the Five Great Mountains of China in Shandong province, rendered in warm tonal gradients. Multiscript bank title and denomination inscriptions border the design. Issuer's signature seal appears within the composition. |
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The 2020 5 Yuan note was part of the People's Bank of China's incremental security upgrade program for the fifth series of renminbi — the same series first introduced in 1999. Rather than redesigning the series wholesale, the PBOC chose to retrofit enhanced security elements into existing denominations over successive years, a strategy that produced multiple overlapping versions of the same face values in active circulation simultaneously.
Paper rather than polymer substrate at this denomination reflects a deliberate policy choice; China's 5 Yuan has remained on paper while the 1 Yuan shifted to polymer in 2019.