Remember the revolutionary history
Inheriting the red spirit
Commemorating the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Shijiazhuang
Telling red stories theme series
—"The mark of never fading"
House a small gray building on our Shijiazhuang city China Street . It was built in 1940 and was originally the Office of the Japanese and puppet North China Construction Administration and the Shimen River Canal Engineering Office. On November 12, 1947, after the liberation of Shijiazhuang, the Shijiazhuang Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China was in office here. On December 1, 1948, People's Bank of China was established here and began to issue the first set of RMB.
In the early days of the Liberation War, the finances and finances of each liberated area were independent, and the currencies of each area were of various types, which added up to more than ten. currency circulation is inconvenient, unstable currency value, and low security, which has caused great trouble to the People's Liberation Army's cross-regional operations. Unified financial currency has become an urgent need, which is closely linked to the long-term national economy and people's livelihood of the New China. To unify currency, we must first establish a unified financial institution. What name should this institution be called?
Professor Qi Gangli of the Party School of Hebei Provincial Party Committee: He Songting, who was the deputy manager of Jinchaji Border Region Bank at that time, said that our government is the people's government, our army is the people's army, so our bank should be called People's Bank of China .
People's Bank of China, this proposal resonated with many people at once. Dong Biwu, who was responsible for the preparations, called the Central Committee to propose that the bank name be formulated as the People's Bank of China. Six days later, the central government replied to the approval.
In November 1948, the central government officially approved the establishment of the People's Bank of China Preparatory Office with Nan Hanchen as its director. Nan Hanchen served as the director of the Finance Department of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region during the Yan'an period. Mao Zedong once called him a clever wife who could cook without rice.
The then coin version designers Wang Yijiu and Shen Naiyong were ordered to be transferred to Shijiazhuang to start the design of the first set of RMB. After repeated modifications, the first set of RMB designed the worker and peasant pictures, sailing boat pictures, farming maps, mining maps, railway station pictures and the famous Wanshou Mountain pictures of the Summer Palace on different faces. The line of beautiful small characters that we are most familiar with on the face of the face, the People's Bank of China was written by Dong Biwu. Dong Biwu was a scholar in the late Qing Dynasty and had a great calligraphy skills. He cut out notes and wrote more than ten pieces of paper over and over again. Finally, he finally achieved six extremely unusual words on the RMB - the People's Bank of China.
Professor Qi Gangli of the Party School of Hebei Provincial Party Committee: The first batch of printed RMB was shipped to Xibaipo . Mao Zedong said excitedly that the people have their own arms, their own regime, and now they have their own banks and currencies. This is the real people who are in charge of their own country.
Zhu De praised the bank's name and told us to remember that the People's Bank of China serves the people. On December 1, 1948, the People's Bank of China was officially established in Shijiazhuang. The first set of RMB was issued and released in Pingshan County, where Shijiazhuang and Xibaipo were located, and it was quickly circulated and opened in the Liberated Area of North China.
People's Daily published an editorial for this purpose. The currency in our liberated areas is cooperating with the victory of the war, rapidly expanding its circulation scope and expelling Chiang currency to the grave. Later, the People's Liberation Army took it into the newly liberated , Peking , Tianjin. The new RMB has played an important role in stabilizing the market and restoring urban economic order.
He Zhongli, a special researcher at the Party History Office of Shijiazhuang Municipal Party Committee: The birth of the first set of RMB is undoubtedly a major event in the history of the currency and even economic history of New China. It is the birth of the -centered currency of New China, and the establishment of the currency system of and monetary system of countries. The establishment of the People's Bank of China and the issuance of the first set of RMB are of epoch-making significance in the history of my country's financial and monetary history.
On December 1, 2009, this small gray building of witnessed history was restored and rebuilt into the former site memorial hall of the People's Bank of China and the Hebei Coin Museum . In the front yard stands bronze statues of Dong Biwu and Nan Hanchen.
To this day, the People's Bank of China has issued a total of 5 sets of RMB. They not only connect the context of the economic development of New China, but also witness the era that the Chinese people have passed together!
