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Word: renminbi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Usage:

...direct for China, was routinely delivered last week by jeans-clad youths outside Peking's Jianguo Hotel. The bananas, mostly imported from Ecuador, were the vendors' customary, and legal, merchandise. The offer to trade currency was neither normal nor legal-especially since the trade was 150 Chinese renminbi for 100 of the foreign-exchange certificates issued to non-Chinese that are officially valued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: Lower Profile for Mother-in-Law | 12/3/1984 | See Source »

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