A woman displays the new 100 yuan note above the current version, Nov 12, 2015. The design is largely the same but the new notes are harder to counterfeit and easier for machines to read. [Photo/IC] |
Many people are eager to have a taste of the newly-released 100 yuan note, but their enthusiasm dimmed when they found the new one is not accustomed to the market.
A netizen from Changchun, Northeast China's Jilin province, explained that four 100 yuan notes he withdrew from a local bank were detected to be "fake" by a currency detector and were refused by an Automatic Teller Machine when he tried to deposit them, China Youth Daily reported.
A new 100-yuan bank note was released by People's Bank of China on Thursday. The central bank said that the new version is harder to counterfeit and easier for machines to read.