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1 Kilogram - Rice 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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| Size | 87 x 35 mm |
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| Obverse description | Printed in green and black on white paper; at left, the food type and denomination in Chinese characters; at right, a vignette of the Siping Martyrs Monument as underprint; date below. |
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| Obverse lettering | 四平市浪食局居民口粮供应票 大米 壹公折 1987 (Translation: People's rationing food stamp for the Food Bureau of Siping City Rice 1 Kilogram 1987) |
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Chinese municipal grain ration coupons operated outside the currency system entirely — they were administrative instruments tied to the household registration system (hukou), which bound a person's food entitlements to their registered locality. A coupon issued by the Siping Food Bureau could not, in principle, be redeemed anywhere else in Jilin province, let alone nationally. By 1987 the state rationing apparatus was already being dismantled in coastal provinces, but inland and northeastern cities like Siping lagged considerably behind the reform curve.
The national grain coupon system was formally abolished in 1993, leaving municipal-issue pieces like this one with a circulation window of six years at most.