1889年(光绪十五年),自两广总督张之洞在粤省造币厂首创自铸银元后,其他各省亦纷纷设厂仿造。由于各地所铸银元均标有本省省名,而且重量、成色不一,人们使用颇感不便。 1909年(宣统元年),度支部尚书载泽向朝廷请旨,奏称币制改革重要,提议取消各省地区性货币,划一币制单位。同年正月十四日议准由度支部设立币制调查局。次年四月二十六日颁布《币制则例》,规定以“元”为单位,定银元为国币,废除银两制度,停止各省自 In 1889 (Guangxu fifteen years), since the Guangdong and Guangxi Governor Zhang Zhidong in Guangdong Mint created the first self-silver, the other provinces have also set up factories imitation. Because all over the cast silver dollars are marked with the provincial name, and the weight, color is different, people are quite inconvenient to use. In 1909 (the first year of Xuantong), Dazhizu Shuzai was handed over to the court for a petition, calling it important to reform the currency system. It proposed canceling the regional currency and the one-currency system of provinces. On the fourteenth day of the first month of the same year, the Legislative Yuan Branch is expected to set up a currency investigation office. On April 26 of the following year, the “Monetary Regulations” was promulgated. By stipulating that the unit of “Yuan” be defined as the national currency, the silver ban should be abolished and the provinces should be stopped