问:国家为什幺要发行新人民币?答:为适应国家计划经济建设的需要和广大人民的愿望,在财政收支平衡和金融物价稳定的基础上,进一步健全和巩固我国的货币制度,以便利交易和核算。大家知道,我们现在使用的这种人民币是中国人民银行在一九四八年十二月开始发行的。这种人民币在人民革命战争中和国民经济的恢复和发展中,曾发挥了重大的作用。几年来我们运用人民币这个武器,对帝国主义、封建主义、官僚资本主义,以及损害人民利益的投机奸商,进行了胜利的斗争,肃清了蒋介石卖国集团所发行的伪币,排除了外国货币在我国市场的流通,禁止了金银黑市,保证了物价稳定,维扩了人民的利益。但是,现在的人民币也还有缺点:第一是现在的票面额很大,而单位价值很低,它名义上是以「元」为单位,实际上一元的价值在计 Q: Why should the state issue new RMB? A: In order to meet the needs of the planned economic construction of the country and the wishes of the broad masses of people, we should further perfect and consolidate our monetary system based on the balance of fiscal revenues and expenditures and the stability of financial prices. Facilitate transactions and accounting. As we all know, the RMB we are using now was issued by the People’s Bank of China in December 1948. This renminbi played an important role in the people’s revolutionary war and in the recovery and development of the national economy. Over the past few years we have used the RMB weapon to fight victories against the imperialists, feudalism, bureaucratic capitalism and speculators who harm the interests of the people. We have eliminated the counterfeit currency issued by the Chiang Kai-shek’s traitorous group and ruled out the use of foreign currency in our country Circulation of the market banned gold, silver and black markets, ensuring price stability and expanding the people’s interests. However, there are still drawbacks to the renminbi. The first is that the present denomination is very large and the unit value is very low. It is nominally denominated in “yuan”. In fact,