Paying for a car in Cash. Using all 1RMB notes – Humour

A Chongqing bus operator that purchased a bus decided to pay for the RMB500,000 purchase in cash--the kind of cash that bus operators are in no shortage of: RMB1 notes.

So a guy walks into a bank, right. He's got seven bags worth of cash. But get this: it's all full of those useless little jiao notes that we all throw away (or at best save for bus rides).

The clerks don't want anything to do with this, obviously, but rules state they have to accept it. This guy is my hero!

China's central bank has issued a warning about counterfeit yuan notes just before the Lunar New Year holiday. According to the bank’s statement. fake 100-yuan notes bearing the "HD90" serial number have been reported in 10 provinces and in Hong Kong.

The current fifth series Renminbi notes are also an awesome ready-made travel itinerary.
Depicted on the notes are six destinations Chinese authorities have deemed worthy of mass circulation, ranging from UNESCO-inscribed iconic architecture to the most stunning natural landscapes. Visit them all on a quirky, once-in-a-lifetime quest, literally following the money through the Middle Kingdom.

A young migrant worker updates a post of his raw, yet I found to be truthful and insightful notes while working at a construction site of soon to be multi-million luxury homes in Sanya, Hainan.

This series of letters and notes demonstrate two things: the great strides China has taken towards a more liberal society, and elementary students there do not have any privacy.

The offspring of China's rich and powerful have been known to flaunt their wealth, and the recent wedding of the son of a village committee director in Shanxi has taken such displays of extravagance to a new level. When the bride and groom walked down the aisle, they did so on a red carpet paved with 15,000 hundred-yuan notes, in total worth more than US$230,000.

History and photos of the Taipei Astronomical Museum along with some notes on current exhibitions there.

What to do with $3 trillion?

Bail out the euro so Europeans can keep buying stuff? Lock up mineral rights around the world? Spend it on imports? Sock it away under a mattress — or in U.S. Treasury notes — and let the pile keep growing?