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10 Shi Jin - Food Stamp Xichang City, Sichuan
| Issuer | Xichang City Grain Bureau, Sichuan |
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| Year | 1981 |
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| Size | 85 x 40 mm |
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| Obverse description | Red letterpress print on cream paper with a guilloche oval underprint at left bearing the denomination characters 壹拾市斤 in white reserve. To the right, a detailed black vignette of a traditional multi-tiered Chinese pavilion set among trees. Numeral 10 appears at both upper corners, with the year 1981 at centre-bottom beneath a floral guilloche border band. |
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| Protection description | Circular red ink official seal with five-pointed star applied to the reverse |
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Chinese grain ration coupons (粮票, liángpiào) were a core instrument of the planned economy's distribution system, introduced nationally in 1955 and administered at provincial, municipal, and county levels simultaneously — creating thousands of locally distinct issues. This Xichang example is a municipal-level coupon, valid only within Xichang City itself, making it useless outside its issuing jurisdiction. A resident traveling to Chengdu would have needed provincial-level coupons instead.
By 1981, the reform era had begun quietly eroding the rationing infrastructure, and many city-level grain bureaus were already winding down coupon production. Xichang's issues from this period tend to survive in small quantities — not because they were carefully preserved, but because local redemption networks collapsed before full drawdown.