However, confusion of financial market because of the Great Depression led outflow of silver coins, so the silver standard was abandoned (the abandonment of the old "tael" and its replacement with the "yuan"; adoption of legal currency based on controlled currency system) in 1935.
しかし、世界恐慌による金融市場の混乱による銀錠の流出を受けて1935年に銀本位制を放棄（銀元廃両改元）（管理通貨制度に基づく法幣導入）をした。