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2.5 Kilograms - Food Stamp Jingzhou Town, Hubei
| Issuer | Jingzhou Town Grain Bureau, Hubei |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | 荆州镇粮食分拨证 2.5kg 1993年3月底过期 (Translation: Jingzhou Town Grain Stamp 2.5kg Expired at the end of March 1993) |
| Reverse description | Unprinted plain paper reverse showing bleed-through of the obverse vignette and seal impression in mirror image, confirming single-sided letterpress printing. |
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Chinese local grain ration coupons of this type were issued by county- and township-level grain bureaus under a system that persisted well after the national food rationing framework had begun to collapse. By 1993, urban grain markets had been substantially liberalized — the State Council had formally abolished the national urban grain rationing system effective May 1993 — which makes a township-level coupon dated the same year an artifact of institutional lag rather than active policy. Local bureaus frequently printed and distributed stock after the central mandate had already lapsed.
Jingzhou, historically a prefectural seat on the central Yangtze plain, had its administrative divisions reorganized repeatedly through the early 1990s.