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150 Grams - Cooking Oil Stamp Sihong County, Jiangsu
| Issuer | Sihong County Grain Bureau (泗洪县粮食局) |
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| Year | 1987 |
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| Composition | Plain paper |
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| Obverse lettering | 泗洪县粮食局直所属购油券 (定销统销) 150克(0.3市斤) 1987 (Translation: Sihong County Grain Bureau Directly Subordinate Oil Purchase Coupons (fixed sales and unified sales) 150 grams (0.3 jin) 1987) |
| Reverse description | Completely plain, unprinted paper in a light cream tone with no text, imagery, or decorative elements. |
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China's rationing infrastructure survived well into the reform era, and county-level grain bureaus retained authority to issue commodity coupons long after urban rationing had begun to loosen at the provincial level. Sihong, a rural county in northern Jiangsu, issued oil coupons independently of the national system — meaning this stamp was valid only within the county's own distribution network, not redeemable elsewhere in the province.
The 1987 date places this squarely in the transitional period when cooking oil remained a controlled commodity even as market reforms were quietly eroding the rationing apparatus around it. Sihong's grain bureau would be stripped of coupon-issuing functions within a few years as deregulation reached the county level.