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1 Shi Liang - Food Stamps Uygur Autonomous Region, Xinjiang
| Issuer | Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Grain Bureau |
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| Year | 1971 |
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| In circulation to | Yes |
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| Obverse lettering | 0.1 新疆维吾尔自治区地方粮票 شىنجاڭ ئۇيغۇر ئاپتونوم رايونى يەرلىك يېمەكلىك ماركىسى 壹市两 بىر شەھەر ئىككى 1971 |
| Reverse description | Plain field with an ornamental orange border enclosing usage instructions in Chinese and Uyghur script in two numbered clauses. At centre, a circular official red seal of the Grain Bureau (粮食局 / ANLIK IDARI SI) bearing a red star, applied in red ink over the printed text. |
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China's grain rationing system, administered province by province through local grain bureaus, was at its most bureaucratically rigid during the early 1970s — deep into the Cultural Revolution. These coupons were not currency in any banking sense but functioned as the practical mechanism by which the state controlled food access at the individual level. Xinjiang's geographic and administrative isolation from coastal China meant its ration instruments circulated entirely within the region and were treated as worthless paper the moment a holder crossed provincial lines.
The 1971 dating places this squarely in a period when Uyghur-language administration was being systematically suppressed. Whether bilingual text appears on this issue is therefore not a trivial design question.