China Hands Out Free Money, Adds Chengdu To Digital Yuan Test Cities

China’s central bank, the People’s Bank of China, is upping the ante in Chengdu, where its test is four times larger than that in Beijing. In the nation’s capital, participants needed to have a Chinese government identification number or residency permit from Hong Kong, Macao, or Taiwan to qualify for the currency packets. Chengdu announced Tuesday (Feb 23) that locals could join a lottery Wednesday and Thursday (Feb. 24 and 25) for one of the roughly 200,000 vouchers. CNBC said the vouchers are
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