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½ Shi Jin - Flour Stamp Baoshan, Yunnan
| Issuer | Baoshan County Grain Bureau, Yunnan Province |
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| Year | 1981 |
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| Value | ½ Shi Jin |
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| Obverse lettering | 0.5 保山县购面券 半市斤 面粉 1981 (Translation: Baoshan County flour coupon half shi jin (250g) flour) |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in orange on white paper and carries the heading 使用说明 (Instructions for Use) in large characters, followed by three numbered clauses of regulatory text in simplified Chinese. A circular red official seal of the Baoshan County Grain Bureau, bearing a central five-pointed star and surrounding inscription, is applied at centre. Decorative borders composed of repeating wheat-ear motifs run across the top and bottom edges. |
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Chinese grain ration coupons of the reform era are frequently mislabeled as currency — they were not. This stamp-coupon (粮票) entitled the bearer to purchase half a market unit of flour at state-controlled prices, issued under the rationing infrastructure that had governed food distribution since the 1950s. Baoshan, a prefecture-level city in western Yunnan near the Burmese border, maintained its own local grain bureau system independent of provincial and national coupon networks, meaning this piece was valid only within county boundaries and could not be redeemed elsewhere.
By 1981, rationing was already loosening in coastal provinces, but remote Yunnan border regions retained tight grain controls well into the late 1980s.