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1 Kilogram - Refined Flour Food Stamp Sìpíng City, Jilin
| Issuer | Food Bureau of Siping City (四平市粮食局) |
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| Year | 1987 |
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| In circulation to | 1 January 1988 |
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| Obverse description | Orange and black letterpress printing on white paper. At left, the food type and denomination are inscribed in Chinese characters; at right, a vignette of the Siping Martyrs Monument serves as the central design element. Issue year appears below. |
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| Reverse lettering | 使用说明 一、 本票只限在市内各粮油食品经营部购买粮油或制成品使用。 二、 本票严禁买卖丶伪造或涂改，遗失不补。 (Translation: Instructions for use 1. The stamp is good for redeem in the city's grain and oil department for grain and oil products use only. 2. The stamp is prohibited for resale, forged or altered, no reissued if lost.) |
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Chinese municipal food stamps (liangpiao) were instruments of the planned economy's rationing system, which remained operative in many cities long after rural decollectivization had already dismantled the communes. Siping, an industrial rail junction in central Jilin, maintained grain bureau control over flour distribution well into the late 1980s — national urban rationing wasn't formally abolished until 1993. This one-kilogram refined flour coupon sits near the tail end of that system, issued six years before it collapsed.
Refined flour coupons were a distinct category from general grain tickets, reflecting the tiered hierarchy of staple goods in which processed flour carried higher status than coarse grain allocations. Municipal-level issues like this one were non-transferable across jurisdictions — a Siping coupon was worthless in Changchun.