1 Portion - Yangzhou City Suburban Cooking Oil Stamp Jiangsu Province

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.