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100 Grams - Food Stamp Shishou City, Hubei
| Issuer | Shishou City Grain Bureau, Hubei Province |
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| Year | 1989 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Reverse description | Plain light ground printed in blue ink, bearing three numbered clauses of usage regulations in Chinese characters arranged in justified columns. A repeating small geometric ornament forms a border along the upper and lower edges of the note. |
| Reverse lettering | 一，本票在全市范围内，可购买粮食及各种粮食制成品。 二，购买粮食时，均按粮食部门规定的供应品种购买。 三，本票严禁买卖，涂改无效，遗失不补。 (Translation: 1. The promissory note can be used to purchase grain and various grain products within the city. 2. When purchasing grain, all purchases shall be made in accordance with the supply varieties specified by the grain department. 3. Promissory notes are strictly forbidden to buy or sell, and the alteration is invalid, and the loss cannot be replaced.) |
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Chinese municipal grain ration coupons of this type were administrative instruments, not currency — they entitled the bearer to a specific weight of grain from state-controlled distribution points and had no monetary face value. The system they belonged to, the liangpiao (粮票) network, ran from 1955 until its formal abolition in 1993, when the grain rationing apparatus was dismantled following market liberalization. By 1989, the system was already under pressure; urban economic reforms had begun eroding the state's grip on food distribution, and local bureaus like Shishou's were issuing increasingly localized coupons as the national system fragmented.
Shishou-issue coupons circulated only within the municipality's own distribution network and were not exchangeable at the provincial level.