China News Service, June 23 Recently, "2020 will be the first year of digital currency", "Three major applications of central bank digital currency have landed and officially entered life" "China will become the first country in the world to issue its own digital currency" News frequently appeared on the Internet. In this regard, the "Internet Joint Rumor Platform" WeChat public account released a rumor article reminding: false officials declare not to believe!
The China Internet Joint Rumor Platform combed relevant rumors, interpreted the truth and clarified the fallacy for netizens.
In 2014, the People's Bank of China began to study the issues of digital currency issuance framework and key technologies. It was not until the “Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Supporting Shenzhen to Build a Pioneering Socialist Demonstration Zone with Chinese Characteristics” issued in August 2019 that “supporting the development of innovative applications such as digital currency research and mobile payment in Shenzhen”, digital currency officially entered the public Vision.
In August 2019, the People's Bank of China made it clear that "accelerating the pace of research and development of China's legal digital currency (DC/EP)" is one of the key tasks in the second half of 2019. There is news on the Internet that "the central bank will issue digital currency to land within 80 days", Subsequently, the Chinese Internet joint rumor platform exclusively reported "The Central Bank Repelled Rumors: "The digital currency that landed within 80 days" is not true".
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In November 2019, the Bitcoin market continued to rise. News such as "People's Bank has issued legal digital currency" and "Blockchain is digital currency" flooded the network. In one month, the central bank issued the "Announcement on the Issuance or Promotion of Legal Digital Currency in the Name of the People's Bank of China" twice to clarify that "the legal digital currency has not been issued."
Image source: Official WeChat of the Internet Joint Rumor Platform
In April 2020, the digital renminbi conducted an internal closed pilot test, and the news that "the digital renminbi was officially launched" was spread. Soon, the Digital Currency Research Institute of the People's Bank of China clarified that it is "testing content in the process of technology research and development", and does not mean that the digital RMB is officially issued.
On May 26, in response to the issue of the “time for the official launch of the digital RMB” that netizens were eagerly concerned, the central bank governor Yi Gang responded that there is no timetable for the official launch.
The article said that the popularity of such news reflects from one side people's enthusiastic expectations for "digital currency". It is for this reason that some lawbreakers have taken advantage of the situation and used the psychology that people know little about digital currency but have an interest in it, deliberately creating false information, or rubbing the eyes of hot bloggers, or disrupting the market. Make a profit.
The China Internet Joint Rumor Platform reminds netizens: Don’t believe the unproven gossip, pay attention to authoritative announcements, and avoid unnecessary property losses.