The digital yuan could cut off the head of the hydra of corruption. But will the Chinese government want to become financially transparent? The CCP's statement in the Fifth Plenum that the corruption situation remains serious despite the punishment of nearly eight million people proves the impossibility of eradicating bribery in the traditional way. Meanwhile, an overall transfer of the financial system to e-CNY, due to the ability to track the movement of each specific yuan, can easily solve the problem. Whether the ruling class wants to lose the feeding trough for which the bureaucracy was created is another matter. The implementation of the digital yuan is proceeding at a snail's pace, and use is limited to the less corrupt sector, with the possibility of replacing e-CNY with regular means of payment. Chinese threat.