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1 Portion - Yangzhou City Suburban Cooking Oil Stamp Jiangsu Province
| Issuer | Yangzhou City Suburban District Grain and Oil Authority, Jiangsu Province |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Size | 74 x 36 mm |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed coupon in red ink on light grey paper, with a horizontal rule border along the upper and lower edges. The title legend runs across the top centre in bold Chinese characters, with the rural designation and quarterly period noted below. At right, a rounded-corner rectangular vignette contains a stylised landscape with a building and an oil bottle. Lower centre carries validity and year text within a plain frame. |
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| Reverse description | Blank, unprinted light grey paper. |
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Chinese grain and oil ration coupons (粮油票) persisted well into the 1990s in many rural and peri-urban administrative zones even after the national urban rationing system was formally abolished in 1993. This suburban district coupon from Yangzhou is a product of that uneven dismantling — city centers liberalized faster than their surrounding jurisdictions, which retained allocation controls until local grain bureaus wound down their distribution networks on their own schedules.
The issuing authority — a suburban district grain and oil office rather than a municipal or provincial body — reflects the hyper-local granularity of late-era Chinese rationing administration.