A resident shows an Olympics commemorative bank note with a face value of 10 yuan (US$1.46) at a bank in Yinchuan, capital of northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region yesterday. The People's Bank of China (PBOC), the country's central bank, issued a total of 6 million such notes from Tuesday to mark the Beijing Olympic Games. The new note, in cyan, is 148.5 millimeters long and 72 millimeters wide with a picture of the National Stadium, or the Bird's Nest, and the emblem of the Beijing Games on one side and the famous ancient Greek marble statue of a discus-thrower, Discobolus, portraits of athletes and the Arabic numeral "2008" on the other.- Xinhua