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1 Shi Jin - Corn Turnover Certificate Ebian County, Sichuan
| Issuer | Ebian County Grain Bureau, Sichuan |
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| Year | 1973 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
| Protection description | Circular red official control stamp bearing a five-pointed star applied to the reverse to authenticate the voucher |
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Grain turnover certificates of this type were administrative instruments tied to China's mandatory grain procurement system — the state quota obligations imposed on rural communes under the socialist planning apparatus. Counties issued these locally to record the transfer of grain from production units to state granaries, functioning as receipts within a closed accounting loop rather than as negotiable instruments in any conventional sense. Ebian, a mountainous county in the Leshan region of Sichuan, operated under the same national framework but managed its own series independently.
The "shi jin" denomination reflects the traditional Chinese unit of 500 grams, retained in commodity certificates long after metrication became official policy elsewhere. The official red stamp is the sole authentication device — forgery risk was considered low given the purely internal administrative function of these documents.