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1 Shi Jin - Grain Food Stamp Wuhu City, Anhui
| Issuer | Wuhu City Grain Bureau, Anhui Province |
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| Year | 1982 |
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| In circulation to | 1 January 1984 |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream paper with a green letterpress decorative border of scroll ornaments enclosing two numbered usage regulations in Chinese characters, headed by the bold title 使用说明 (Instructions for Use). |
| Reverse lettering | 使用说明 一、本券限在本市流通使用，遗失不补。 二、本券为无价证券，不准买卖伪造。 (Translation: Instructions for Use 1. This voucher is valid for circulation within this city only; no replacement will be issued if lost. 2. This voucher is a non-monetary certificate; buying, selling, or counterfeiting is strictly prohibited.) |
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Chinese grain rationing coupons (粮票) were a product of the planned economy's distribution system, in use nationally from 1955 until the early 1990s when free markets made them obsolete. Municipal-level stamps like this one from Wuhu were only valid within the issuing city's jurisdiction — a traveler crossing into the next county would need a different coupon entirely. Provincial and national-level stamps ran parallel to local ones, creating a layered rationing hierarchy that local grain bureaus administered with considerable autonomy.
Wuhu, a Yangtze River port city in Anhui, was historically one of China's major rice trading hubs — something of an irony given that its residents in 1982 still required coupons to purchase it.