Special report: 2008 Olympic Games
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A resident shows an Olympics commemorative bank note
with a face value of 10 yuan (1.46 U.S. dollars) at a bank in Yinchuan,
capital of northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, July 9, 2008.
The People's Bank of China (PBOC), the country's central bank, issued a
total of 6 million such notes from Tuesday to mark the Beijing Olympic
Games. The new note, in cyan, is 148.5 millimeters long and 72 millimeters
wide with a picture of the National Stadium, or the Bird's Nest, and the
emblem of the Beijing Games on one side and the famous ancient Greek
marble statue of a discus-thrower, Discobolus, portraits of athletes and
the Arabic numeral "2008" on the other. (Xinhua Photo) Photo Gallery>>> |