rmb inflation
2000 0.4%
2001 0.7%
2002 -0.8%
2003 1.2%
2004 3.9%
2005 1.8%
2006 1.5%
2007 4.8%
2008 5.9%
2009 -0.7%
meanwhile, Chinese CPI is going through the roof:
in comparison a loss of 22% doesn't seem too strange
in 1994 the rmb had inflation rates of 24.1% in a year!