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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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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | 山东省粮票 壹市斤 1 1984 (Translation: Shandong Province Grain Coupons One Jin 1 1984) |
| Reverse description | Uniform red letterpress printing on plain paper, with a guilloche-pattern rectangular border matching the obverse. The central field carries three numbered clauses of usage instructions in Chinese characters, headed by the issuer title. A circular red control stamp bearing a five-pointed star is applied at centre, overlapping the text. |
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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.