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2 Kilograms - Food Stamp Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
| Issuer | Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Grain Bureau |
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| Year | 1988 |
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| Obverse description | Light green coupon with a central brown intaglio-style vignette of two figures on horseback traversing an open field, evoking the pastoral landscapes of Xinjiang. Flanking rosette medallions in orange serve as denominational underprints, with the numeral "2" at each upper corner. Bilingual title inscriptions in Uyghur Arabic script and Chinese characters run across the top, with the year "1988" in a guilloche border band at foot. |
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| Reverse lettering | ئىشلىتىش قائىدىسى تۈراھاتى 1. بۇ بىلەت ئارقىلىق پۈتۈن رايونمىز نەۋئەسىدە ئاشلىق ۋە ئاشلىقتىن ئىشلەنگەن تامئاقلارنى رەتلەشقا بولسىدۇ. 2. بۇ بىلەتنى سېتىش ۋە سېتىۋېلىش، ياسوپتاش ۋە ئۆزگەرتىش قەتئىي مەنئىدۇر، يوقىتىپ قويسا تولۇقلاپ بېرىلمەيدۇ. 使用说明 1.凭本票，在全自治区范围内，可购买粮食制成品及各种粮食。 2.本票不准买卖，严禁伪造，涂改无效，遗失不补。 |
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Food rationing coupons issued by provincial and regional grain bureaus were a fixture of the People's Republic's planned economy from the 1950s onward. Xinjiang's regional stamps operated alongside national-issue grain coupons but were only redeemable within the autonomous region — a deliberate restriction that controlled population movement by tying food access to registration location. By 1988 the national rationing system was already being wound down in coastal and central provinces, but reform reached Xinjiang considerably later, making late-dated regional coupons like this one among the final artifacts of that apparatus.