Foreign exchange certificates, referred to as foreign exchange certificates, are RMB certificates with foreign exchange value. It can only be used in the same value as RMB within the prescribed scope, but it is not another currency. In the late 1970s, with the development of China's tourism industry and the increase of foreign economic and cultural exchanges, more and more foreigners, overseas Chinese and compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan came to China, and the number of hotels, shops and other service departments dedicated to them increased accordingly. Since China implements a unified RMB market, foreign currencies are prohibited from circulating in the domestic market. In order to facilitate foreigners, overseas Chinese, compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, resident staff of diplomatic agencies and non-governmental organizations in China to buy goods and pay fees in these places, China Bank issued foreign exchange certificates from April 1980. There are seven denominations: 100 yuan, 50 yuan, 10 yuan, 5 yuan, 1 yuan, 5 cents, 1 minute. The face value is equivalent to RMB, and it is not allowed to report the loss. The exchange procedures for foreign exchange certificates are as follows: When foreign tourists, overseas Chinese and compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan enter the country, the foreign currency and foreign exchange they carry can be exchanged into foreign exchange certificates in China Bank at one time. When leaving the country, if the remaining foreign exchange certificates are too late to be converted into foreign currency, they are allowed to take them out of the country freely and can be brought back to China for use later. On July 1995, foreign exchange certificates stopped circulating.

Strictly speaking, foreign exchange certificate is a kind of ticket, not a currency widely circulated in China, but it is different from food stamps, cloth tickets, coal tickets, oil tickets and other tickets. Printed is equivalent to the face value of RMB, which can be used alone and has purchasing power, which is different from that of RMB banknotes at that time. Belongs to a special currency that combines coupons and coins.

"1979" on the coupon is the printing time.