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½ Shi Jin - Food Stamp Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
| Issuer | Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Grain Administration |
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| Year | 1971 |
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| Size | 86 x 34 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of trucks traversing a mountain road through a coniferous forest, evoking the characteristic landscape of northern Xinjiang. Two large orange rosettes flank the vignette on either side, each enclosing the numerical value "0.5". The year of issue and the denomination in Chinese characters are printed above and below the central scene. |
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| Reverse description | Pink ground carrying bilingual usage instructions in Chinese, framed by two green decorative motifs each bearing the numeral "0.5". A circular red official seal of the issuing authority is impressed at the centre of the note. |
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Chinese food stamps — liangpiao — were ration coupons issued at provincial, municipal, and county levels throughout the Mao era, running roughly from 1955 to the early 1990s when the national grain rationing system was finally dismantled. Xinjiang issues are among the more geographically specific in the system: the Grain Administration there operated under particular logistical pressure given the region's sparse population, long supply chains, and heavy military-agricultural presence through the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps.
The 1971 date places this squarely in the Cultural Revolution period, when regional administrative offices continued issuing ration documents even as many other institutional functions were disrupted or renamed. Xinjiang stamps from this period are notably harder to find than those from eastern provinces, where higher population density and urban distribution networks produced far greater print runs.