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30/09/2016 Chinese yuan joins IMF currency basket

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IMF Adds Yuan to Basket of Reserve Currencies

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Haiyan Wang on the yuan joining IMF currency basket

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Under IMF decision, Yuan will join SDR

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China's yuan joins U.S. dollar, pound, yen, euro as reserve currency

The yuan is the base unit of a number of former and present-day currencies in Chinese. Today, it usually refers to the primary unit of account of the renminbi, the currency of the People's Republic of China. It is also used as a synonym of that currency, especially in international contexts – the ISO 4217 standard code for renminbi is CNY.