China rolls out new 100 yuan banknotes, with stronger anti-forgery features

A new version of China’s largest-denomination banknote flooded into the market on November 12, with a few early birds who withdrew cash from banks and automatic teller machines rushing to social media sites to share pictures of the new 100 yuan bill.
“My Mr Dreamy [Chairman Mao Zedong] has a new photo album out,” read a top-voted comment on Weibo, China’s answer to Twitter.
The portrait of the Great Helmsman, as Mao is also known, adorns one side of all banknotes of the currency, officially called renminbi.
The release of the high-tech note is the latest move by China’s central bank to tackle a serious problem of forgeries.
This is the third edition of the fifth series of renminbi introduced in 1999. Like the second edition issued in 2005, the latest version adds anti-counterfeiting features like colour-changing ink, an additional serial number, a new security line, and unevenly printed patterns of the Great Hall of the People on the note.