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10 Shi Jin - Fine Flour Stamp Harbin City, Heilongjiang
| Issuer | Harbin City Grain Bureau (哈尔滨市粮食局) |
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| Year | 1985 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse lettering | 哈尔滨市粮票 精粉 拾市斤 10 1985 (Translation: Harbin City Food Stamp Fine Flour 10 Shi Jin (5 kg)) |
| Reverse description | Plain light ground with a central rectangular panel headed '使用说明' (Instructions for Use), containing three numbered clauses in Chinese restricting the voucher to Harbin City use. Denomination '10' appears in circular guilloche medallions at left and right. A round red official seal of the Harbin City Grain Bureau (哈尔滨市粮食局) with central red star is applied in the middle of the panel. |
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Chinese grain rationing coupons — liangpiao — were a product of the planned economy's distribution system, which ran from the early 1950s until the market reforms of the 1990s dismantled it province by province. This particular coupon, issued by the municipal grain bureau rather than a provincial or national authority, was valid only within Harbin city limits; attempting to purchase flour with it elsewhere would have been refused at the counter. The hyperlocal issuing structure meant thousands of distinct coupon types were produced across China, most in tiny print runs with negligible survival rates.
Heilongjiang's grain bureau network was among the more administratively complex ones, given the province's role as a major wheat-producing region supplying quotas upward to the state while simultaneously rationing consumption locally.