• The digital e-yuan, also unofficially referred to as e-CNY, is used at a self check-out counter at a store in Shenzhen, China, in November 2020. The nation’s central bank was testing its digital money in select cities at the time.  | BLOOMBERG
    The digital e-yuan, also unofficially referred to as e-CNY, is used at a self check-out counter at a store in Shenzhen, China, in November 2020. The nation’s central bank was testing its digital money in select cities at the time.  | BLOOMBERG
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Among the many benefits that China anticipated from hosting the 2022 Winter Olympics, one of the most important and subtle was the boost it would give its digital currency.

The Games would showcase China’s mastery of financial innovation, speed evolution toward a cashless society and, in its most ambitious design, undermine the U.S. dollar’s position as the global reserve currency. Those plans have been undercut by the COVID-19 pandemic, which restricted the number of visitors to the Games, but the ambition and vision are inescapable.

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