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50 Yuan · Jiuzhaigou National Park
| Issuer | People's Republic of China |
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| Year | 2018 |
| Type | Fantasy banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | JIUZHAIGOU NATIONAL PARK JIUZHAIGOU ECOSYSTEM 1978 九寨溝 GIANT PANDA 大熊貓 本說明不是合法投標 THIS NOT IS NOT LEGAL TENDER 50 NATIONAL PARKS SERIES R 2018 國家公園系列R |
| Reverse description | Colourful polymer reverse centred on a vignette of Rhinoceros Lake. At left, a White-browed Rosefinch, a Bharal, and a map of the park are depicted; at right appears a Sichuan Snub-nosed Monkey. Bilingual text in Chinese and English identifies the site and province. |
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China's commemorative polymer notes have been issued sparingly, and the 2018 Jiuzhaigou piece is among the few tied directly to a disaster-recovery narrative. The Sichuan earthquake of August 2017 — magnitude 7.0, epicentered within the park itself — caused severe damage to the UNESCO World Heritage site and closed it indefinitely to tourists. The note's release roughly a year later was widely read domestically as an act of institutional reassurance about the park's future.
Printed by the China Banknote Printing and Minting Corporation, this was only the third polymer commemorative issued by the People's Bank of China, following the 2000 Millennium dragon note and the 2015 Panda series. The substrate is Australian-sourced Guardian polymer — a detail not printed anywhere on the note itself.