Is central bank digital currency digital cash

1. In theory, the central bank issues digital currency to replace paper money. However, this process is very slow, because the development of various regions in China is seriously unbalanced, and the acceptance of digital currency is also different. The digital currency trial run by the central bank is only applied to the bill market
in the future, there may be many digital currencies in China, and each digital currency will have its own application. For example, Puyin is a very interesting digital currency, which corresponds to the assets related to tea.

2. The central bank's digital currency is the legal digital currency approved by the State Council. The central bank organizes market institutions to engage in the corresponding work of the central bank's digital currency research and development

2019 August 21st, the official account of WeChat central bank released two articles on digital currency.

3. Yes, the digital currency developed by the central bank is called DCEP. DC is digital currency and EP is electronic payment. Payment transmits digital things through a certain way, not paper currency. Therefore, electronic payment itself has the attribute of digital currency.