When the ROC central government moved to Taiwan in 1949, the Bank of Taiwan regained the functions of a central bank it had in the Japanese era, changing the district currency it issued into the New Taiwan Dollar.
一九四九年中央政府遷台以後，仍然以台灣銀行代理中央銀行的業務，把當時台銀發行的地區幣改為新台幣，視同國幣。