Their bond debt as a whole, however, nearly doubled to 15.4 trillion yuan over the same period.

It will reach an annual production value of 92 billion yuan.

Beijing announced late on Thursday it would nearly double the number of foreign currencies in a basket that is used to set the yuan's value.

Lacking the military strength to pull a fractured country together, he said he was the place-warmer for a strongman, Yuan Shikai.

Experts said the rise in value was linked to the long-term depreciation of the Chinese Yuan.

"The security guards treated us very rudely," Yuan Shanshan tells me.