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1 Shi Jin - Grains Food Stamp Shandong Province
| Issuer | Shandong Province Grain Bureau |
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| Year | 1984 |
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| Currency | Yuan Renminbi (1949-date) |
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| Obverse description | Red-toned paper with a fine guilloche-pattern border frame enclosing a central vignette of a landscape hill scene rendered in greyscale underprint. The title inscription and denomination are printed in dark maroon Chinese characters, with the numeral value and issue year displayed in the lower field. Light red security underprint lines run across the entire face. |
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| Reverse lettering | 山东省粮票说明 一、凭本票在本省购买粮食及粮食制成品。 二、本票面额系成品粮,每十市两为一市斤。 三、本票不准买实、涂改无效,遗失不补。 (Translation: Shandong Province Grain Ticket Instructions 1. This ticket is valid for purchasing grain and grain products within Shandong Province. 2. The face value of this ticket is for finished grain products; ten liang equals one jin. 3. This ticket is invalid if sold, altered, or lost.) |
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Chinese provincial grain coupons (liangpiao) were a direct instrument of the planned economy's rationing apparatus, issued at the provincial level and valid only within that jurisdiction — a Shandong coupon was worthless in Jiangsu, by design. The system, introduced nationally in 1955, tied food access to household registration (hukou), making these small paper instruments far more consequential than their face value suggests. By 1984, the rationing network was already under pressure from Deng Xiaoping's agricultural reforms, which had begun dismantling collective farming structures from 1978 onward.
Shandong Province abolished its grain coupon system in 1993, when the national rationing framework was formally scrapped. The 1984 issue sits near the beginning of the end for the entire category.