Let's take you to a tour of the RMB printing factory to see what money is like.

China's banknote printing industry was very closed in the past, and even the factory names were all codenamed, such as the Beijing banknote printing factory, formerly known as the "541 factory ", the Shanghai banknote printing factory, formerly known as the "542 factory", has now undergone great changes. China's banknote printing industry has begun to unveil the mysterious brand of the "Beijing banknote printing factory, it has been properly hung on the door. Even so, the printing plants in most countries in the world are not allowed to visit the public.

A RMB, from hand-carved templates to printing factory, must go through at least 10 processes. The first phase of RMB production is paper selection. On a large lightbox, the workers checked the quality of the paper. Printing Paper is a special paper specially developed. It not only has the characteristics of wear resistance, fold resistance, acid resistance, alkali resistance and so on, but also covers the watermark pattern used for anti-counterfeiting. Because the watermark on the banknote paper has a direction, the paper selector should stack the paper in the direction of the watermark pattern and use a punching machine to position the watermark on the edge. This process should never go wrong. Otherwise, a watermark-inverted banknote will be produced. This kind of banknote is a waste product in the banknote printing factory, but in case it enters the market, it has become a valuable 'trease' in the hands of coin lovers ". The reason why the value is high is that the quality inspection of banknote printing plants is strict, so that the possibility of such waste products flowing to the market is minimal.

After the paper is selected, it will be delivered to the printing workshop. Several super gravure printing machines running at high speed can turn a piece of white paper into RMB. People who know printing a little know that the printing starts with a try and the final result can be adjusted to the best state. However, when printing RMB, it is not allowed to be tested on the banknote paper. It is generally used on ordinary paper. Because each piece of printing paper has a strict quantity of management, one sheet cannot be less. If a waste product is produced after the official printing is made, even if it is a group, it should be taken for registration and review. There are a series of procedures!

After the banknotes are printed, the cropping process is required. Because the products are just as big as the People's Daily, there are 24 RMB on them, and this process is to cut them out. The last process is quality control, which is called the "top priority" in the printing process ". Quality control is manually completed in the inspection and sealing Hall. The half-closed workstations are arranged neatly. The quality control women's hands and tables are a new version of RMB. There is a high wattage lamp on each table. Lighting is very important to them, because they need to check the quality of each RMB under the light, such as whether the numbers and texts are printed incorrectly, whether the color is even, and whether the watermark is inverted, and so on, and then remove the waste tickets.

Each worker checks tens of thousands of printed documents every day. If someone is lazy, several images will be reviewed at once. Once discovered, they will be recorded. When the number of previous processes is completed, the number of processes is transferred to the next process, and the number of processes received by the next process is also checked for quality. The technology of the workers here is absolutely superb and amazing. They put their hands in a row, and each row is one hundred sheets, not many. In the management of banknote printing plants, the most distinctive feature is digital management, that is, from the time the paper is delivered out of the warehouse, to the time when the finished product is stored and packed into the Treasury, each of these steps should be checked, "How much is taken out and how much is handed in ". Here is a sentence called "The operator is necessary ". Once the number is found to be incorrect, the system will check the process by record until there is a result. Of course, the workshop is also equipped with a variety of money counters, the speed is very fast, is not the current type of banking or shops. Digital Management is an effective means of management.

But this is, after all, an external management constraint, so that people who face thousands of bills every day do not have to think about what is more important than "moral constraints ". After the number and cropping of the semi-finished products are printed, when the order is turned, the carts are soldered to the iron cage and several large locks are added, and the bundled money is packed inside. Products that have passed the quality inspection are encapsulated into boxes and then delivered to the "Treasury" of the People's Bank of China. After that, Renminbi cash must be issued through the issuance database of the People's Bank of China, and be transferred to the circulation field through commercial banks (such as ICBC and Boc. Sub-branches, branches, windows, and other channels of various commercial banks flow to common people through residents' access, bank loans, old coins, and other forms. These "Products" can be called "money" only after the central bank issues a series of processes ".

For the money printing factory workers, the RMB placed in the production workshop is just a common product they produce. Working in a banknote printing factory, even if all the money is visible, there is a strict control over the production volume. Even the defective RMB cannot be discarded at will. It must be handed in and checked at intervals, once the problem is identified, "the whole department is under investigation ".

In addition, a 24-hour uninterrupted video recording system is installed in each workshop of the whole plant. You can retrieve all the things happening in any department at any time from the computer record. As a result, the workers in various processes of the banknote printing factory will not move around at will. The first thing for a worker to do is to study the confidentiality regulations: do not join other teams in the workshop, do not tell friends that they are working in the printing factory, and do not talk to people about the printing of banknotes. The banknote printing industry is an industry with a unique corporate culture. Managers repeatedly instill the following idea into the workers: "You are facing products, not money ."

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