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1of8Buy PhotoAlbany High School junior Troy Millin, left, and his mother, Divonne Millin, look over some of the supplies that were given to Troy at Albany High School s Abrookin Career and Technical Center on Tuesday, March 2, 2021, in Albany, N.Y. Troy, who is a member of the Sgt. Henry Johnson Battalion, Albany High School JROTC, has been making cakes for local veterans to mark their birthdays. (Paul Buckowski/Times Union)Paul Buckowski/Albany Times UnionShow MoreShow Less
China charges ahead with a national digital currency
2 Mar, 2021 09:59 PM
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A sign for China s new digital currency, eCNY. Photo / Gilles Sabrié, The New York Times
A sign for China s new digital currency, eCNY. Photo / Gilles Sabrié, The New York Times
New York Times
By: Nathaniel Popper and Cao Li
The electronic Chinese yuan is now being tested in cities such as Shenzhen, Shanghai and Beijing. No other major power is as far along with a homegrown digital currency. Annabelle Huang recently won a government lottery to try China s latest economics experiment: a national digital currency.
After joining the lottery through the social media app WeChat, Huang, 28, a business strategist in Shenzhen, received a digital envelope with 200 electronic Chinese yuan, or eCNY, worth around US$30 ($41). To spend it, she went to a convenience store near her office and picked out some nuts and yogurt. Then she pulled up a QR code for the digital currency
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Mar 3, 2021 1:30:pm
Summary
by: William Powell
US major ExxonMobil has set out its plans to commercialise lower emission technologies in support of the goals of the Paris Agreement with its 2021-25 spending spree. We are fully committed to growing shar.
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