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1000 Grams - Food Stamp Zhangjiakou City, Hebei
| Issuer | Zhangjiakou Municipal Grain Bureau |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| In circulation to | 1 January 1993 |
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| Obverse description | Orange border with Chinese characters and a guilloche underprint in green; central vignette shows a greyscale image of vehicles passing through a traditional city gate arch. Denomination '壹仟克' and issuing authority inscriptions are printed in orange letterpress across the face. |
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| Protection description | Printed on security paper with green security features embedded in the substrate |
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Chinese municipal grain rations (粮票, liángpiào) were a product of the planned economy's household registration system, which tied food entitlements to a specific locality. By 1992, national grain rationing had effectively collapsed — the State Council formally abolished the national grain coupon system in 1993 — making this Zhangjiakou issue one of the last gasps of a bureaucratic infrastructure that had operated continuously since 1955.
Municipal-level stamps printed this late are noticeably scarcer than provincial issues, as quantities were small and few were retained after local rationing ended.