Central Mint

Central Mint


Native name	中央造幣廠
Romanized name	Zhōngyāng Zàobìchǎng (Mandarin) Tiong-iong Chō-pè-chhiúⁿ (Taiwanese) Tûng-ông Chho-pi-chhóng (Hakka)
Formerly	Central Mint of China Shanghai Mint
Company type	State-owned
Founded	1920 (in Shanghai) 1949 (in Taipei)
Headquarters	Guishan, Taoyuan , Taiwan
Parent	Central Bank of the Republic of China (Taiwan)
Website	www.cmc.gov.tw

Central Mint

Traditional Chinese

中央造幣廠

Simplified Chinese

中央造币厂

Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Zhōngyāng Zàobìchǎng
Bopomofo	ㄓㄨㄥㄧㄤㄗㄠˋ ㄅㄧˋ ㄔㄤˇ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh	Jong'iang Tzawbihchaang
Wade–Giles	Chung¹-yang¹ Tsao⁴-pi⁴-chang³
Tongyong Pinyin	Jhongyang Zàobìchǎng
MPS2	Jōngyāng Tzàobìchǎng
Hakka
Pha̍k-fa-sṳ	Tûng-ông Chho-pi-chhóng
Southern Min
Hokkien POJ	Tiong-iong Chō-pè-chhiúⁿ
Tâi-lô	Tiong-iong Tsō-pè-tshiúnn

The Central Mint, known in English before 2004 as the Central Mint of China (CMC), is a subsidiary company of the Central Bank of the Republic of China (Taiwan). The major activities of the mint are minting and melting circulation and commemorative coins, and producing commemorative medals and other kind of casting products for government institutions and businesses in Taiwan.

History

The mint was originally established as Shanghai Mint in Shanghai in 1920.

In 1928, Northern Expedition forces led by the Kuomintang took over Shanghai, and the Shanghai Mint was renamed Central Mint of China and became the subordinate of Ministry of Finance. Australian-Chinese merchant George Kwok Bew was appointed head of the CMC. Kwok was an associate of Sun Yat-sen and also managing director of Wing On. Five years later in 1933, the company started its operation in minting. During the Second Sino-Japanese War, the company had to be relocated inland of Mainland China in which facilities were set up in Chengdu, Guilin, Kunming, Lanzhou and Wuchang. In 1946 after the National Revolutionary Army won the war against the Japanese, the company relocated back to Shanghai.^[1]

In 1949, in the later stages of the Chinese Civil War, Shanghai was taken over by Communist forces. Part of the CMC was evacuated to Taiwan, while the remaining equipment and personnel were received by the Communist military administration in May 1949 and reorganised as "the People's Mint", now the Shanghai Mint, a subsidiary of China Banknote Printing and Minting.

The CMC officially relocated to Taiwan in May 1949 and facilities were set up in Taipei. It then became the subordinate of the Central Bank of the Republic of China (Taiwan). In 1976, the facility was relocated to Guishan Township in Taoyuan County until today.^[1]^[2]