--- title: Five Best: China Is On Track To Fully Phase Out Paper Money description: China is on track to phase out paper money, this researcher built a tool to revolutionize how patients can find a clinical trial and more. canonical: https://time.com/4784186/china-is-on-track-to-fully-phase-out-paper-money/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-18T16:00:40.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:50.663Z article:section: Ideas og:title: China Is On Track To Fully Phase Out Paper Money og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4784186/china-is-on-track-to-fully-phase-out-paper-money/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: China Is On Track To Fully Phase Out Paper Money twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # China Is On Track To Fully Phase Out Paper Money by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute May 18, 2017 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute May 18, 2017 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**China is on track to fully phase out paper money.**](https://motherboard.vice.com/en%5Fus/article/china-cashless) By Jamie Fullerton in _Motherboard_ **2\.** [**Facing stage 4 cancer, this researcher built a tool to revolutionize how patients can find a clinical trial.**](https://www.statnews.com/2017/05/17/cancer-clinical-trials-curation/) By Bob Tedeschi in _STAT_ **3\.** [**To understand the future of climate change, look at the Arctic today.**](https://citiesofthefuture.eu/when-you-live-at-78%C2%BAn-you-become-an-expert-in-everything-28567c3a522a) By Pablo Valerio in _Cities of the Future_ **4\.** [**Too many Americans can’t afford to retire. We can fix that.**](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/591c8945e4b07617ae4cb8a2) By Debra B. Whitman at _HuffPost_ **5\.** [**Can globalization survive a future filled with hacking and malware?**](http://theweek.com/articles/698974/globalization-survive-barrage-cyber-attacks) By Jeff Spross in the _Week_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4784186/china-is-on-track-to-fully-phase-out-paper-money/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4784186/china-is-on-track-to-fully-phase-out-paper-money/"},"headline":"China Is On Track To Fully Phase Out Paper Money","datePublished":"2017-05-18T16:00:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:50.663Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4784186/china-is-on-track-to-fully-phase-out-paper-money/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Money","Innovation","climate change","Cancer","Globalization","Retirement"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4784186/china-is-on-track-to-fully-phase-out-paper-money/","name":"China Is On Track To Fully Phase Out Paper Money"}}]}] ```