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100 Grams - Flour Food Stamp Wuhai City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region
| Issuer | Wuhai City Grain Bureau, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region |
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| Year | 1990 |
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| Value | 100 Grams - Flour |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark blue on plain paper stock, enclosed within a rectangular border of interlaced guilloche chain ornaments with DNA-strand motifs along the lateral edges. The centre field carries four numbered clauses of usage instructions in simplified Chinese. A red circular official seal with a five-pointed star at its centre is applied over the text, identifying the issuing authority. The denomination 100g in Latin script appears in the upper-left and lower-right corners. |
| Reverse lettering | 100g 1、持居民粮证到粮店领取本券,并扣等量面粉。 2、此券只限在本市范围内使用。 3、券面额为成品粮。 4、本券严禁买卖、伪造、涂改无效,遗失不补。 100g (Translation: 100g 1. Present your resident grain ration certificate at the grain store to receive this coupon, which will be credited as an equivalent amount of flour. 2. This coupon is valid only within this city. 3. The face value of the coupon is for finished grain. 4. This coupon is strictly prohibited from being bought, sold, counterfeited, or altered. Lost coupons will not be replaced. 100g) |
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Chinese municipal food ration coupons of this type were administered locally rather than through a national system, which is why grain bureau stamps from prefecture-level cities like Wuhai vary so sharply in design, printing quality, and denomination structure from county to county. Wuhai, a coal-mining municipality carved out of the western Inner Mongolian steppe in 1976, had a relatively small and administratively distinct population — its ration infrastructure was correspondingly compact and self-contained.
By 1990, the national rationing system was already being wound down in coastal and southern provinces, but resource towns in the interior held on longer. Wuhai's grain bureau coupons from this period were in active use for only a few more years before the state grain rationing system was formally abolished in 1993.