Inside the Yuan Factory: The Currency Featuring 6 Iconic Asian Landscapes (Full Process)

Step inside the Yuan Factory and discover how one of the most historically distinctive currencies in modern East Asian monetary history is produced—the Chinese Renminbi, also known as the Yuan, the official money of a 1.4 billion-person nation whose extraordinary banknote design tradition features six of the most iconic natural and cultural landscapes in Asia on the reverse of its six paper denominations, one of the most historically distinctive currency identities ever established in modern global banknote design. This full-process documentary reveals how the Chinese Yuan combines centuries of East Asian heritage, high-security printing, and industrial precision to serve one of the most historically remarkable monetary systems ever built. Issued under the authority of the People's Bank of China (PBOC), the historic central bank established on 1 December 1948 with banknote production carried out by the celebrated China Banknote Printing and Minting Corporation, Chinese Yuan banknotes follow a tightly coordinated production workflow rooted in a remarkable monetary history—an original modern currency introduced in December 1948 in twelve different denominations, progressively modernized across five complete banknote series including the historic first series of 1948, the second series of 1955, the third series introduced on 15 April 1962, the fourth series launched in 1987 and recalled in 2018, and the current fifth series introduced on 1 October 1999 featuring the celebrated Chairman Mao Zedong portrait created by artist Liu Wenxi on the obverse of every denomination. This cinematic walkthrough explores every major phase of the process, including cotton-fiber paper manufacturing, watermark integration of distinguished portraits, offset and intaglio printing, elegant Chinese script, security threads, microtext, color-shifting inks, raised tactile features, serial numbering, traditional Chinese floral patterns, and the extraordinary 2020 edition of the 5-yuan banknote introduced on 8 July 2020 and released into general circulation on 5 November 2020, which achieved the world-first precise two-sided intaglio printing and registration technology in a circulating banknote, marking the first application of this technology in modern banknote history. Blending industrial engineering, materials science, and the legacy of a civilization whose extraordinary East Asian heritage stretches back across centuries of continuous cultural development, this documentary explains how China manufactures trust across a currency defined by six of the most iconic natural and cultural landscapes in Asia—the celebrated West Lake of Hangzhou (UNESCO World Heritage 2011) on the 1 yuan note, the sacred Mount Tai (UNESCO 1987) as the historic sacred mountain of the east on the 5 yuan note, the extraordinary Yangtze Three Gorges natural wonder on the 10 yuan note, the celebrated Guilin Karst Landscape (UNESCO 2014) known as "the best under heaven" on the 20 yuan note, the historic Potala Palace of Lhasa (UNESCO 1994) on the 50 yuan note, and the modernist Great Hall of the People in Beijing on the 100 yuan note. From blank substrate to finished banknotes ready for distribution across Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Guilin, and Xi'an, the process reveals how a nation preserved one of the most historically remarkable currency traditions in modern history. If you enjoy how money is made, high-security factories, or full-process industrial documentaries, this video offers a rare behind-the-scenes look at one of the most historically remarkable currency systems on Earth. 🔔 Subscribe to explore more currency factories and full-process engineering documentaries from around the world. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏭 ABOUT MINTEDFORGE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Welcome to MintedForge — where raw nature meets modern industry. We go inside the world's most extraordinary factories to show you how the things that run our world are made. New videos every day. Subscribe to never miss a process. 🔔 Hit the bell to get notified instantly. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 WATCH NEXT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▶ Inside the Rupee Factory: The Currency Featuring 17 Different Languages ▶ Inside the Rupee Factory: The Currency Featuring Mount Everest on Every Note ▶ Inside the Won Factory: Korea's Modern Money Explained ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #ChineseYuan #Renminbi #CNY #RMB #InsideTheFactory #YuanFactory #PBOC #Beijing #EastAsianCurrency #FullProcess #MintedForge #WestLake #MountTai #GuilinKarst #PotalaPalace #MoneyFactory