My apologies but this idea of the Chinese government tokenizing their currency has more ulterior reasons than what could be read through the news and watched through the television.
While it is true that the future of currency is digital currency, the tokenization of the Chinese Yuan is definitely a move to counter the rising popularity of digital currencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, and other cryptos in their own land. The Chinese government, instead of adopting these already existing cryptocurrencies, made one for their own so that they will have a complete control over it. China would never allow a foreign or any cryptocurrency to dominate their domestic day to day economic activity over which they do not have any kind of power or authority.