Chinese lost the chance that 100 yuan became 1 yuan next Monday.

By December 1945 the Shanghai wholesale price index reached 177,088, and by the end of 1947 it was 16,759,000. In December 1948 the index had risen to 36,788,000,000, and in April 1949 it was at 151,733,000,000,000.

No government could exist after that inflation.