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10 Kilograms - Food Stamps Suzhou City, Jiangsu
| Issuer | Suzhou City Food Bureau, Jiangsu Province |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Size | 84 x 37 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | 苏州市购粮券 拾公斤 年内使用 过期作废 1992 (Translation: Suzhou City Food Stamp 10 kilograms Valid for use within the indicated year Invalid if expired) |
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| Reverse lettering | 使用说明 1.本券只能在城镇粮店购粮使用 2.本券按规定品种购买 3.本券不准买卖，严禁伪造，遗失不补 (Translation: Instructions for Use 1. This coupon can only be used in urban grain stores 2. This coupon is to be used to purchase specified grain varieties 3. This coupon is not permitted to be bought or sold, forgery is strictly prohibited, lost coupons will not be replaced) |
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Chinese municipal food ration coupons like this one were administrative instruments issued by local grain bureaus under the planned economy's rationing infrastructure — not currency, but functionally inseparable from it for daily subsistence. By 1992, the national rationing system was already being dismantled; the State Council formally abolished the guojia liang piao (national grain coupons) in 1993, meaning this Suzhou issue appeared in the system's final operational year.
City-level food bureau coupons from this period are routinely overlooked in Western collections, yet they document the granular, municipality-by-municipality collapse of a distribution apparatus that had governed how urban Chinese families purchased staple grain since the 1950s.