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2 Shi Liang - Food Stamp Wuhu City, Anhui
| Issuer | Wuhu City Grain Bureau, Anhui Province |
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| Year | 1983 |
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| Obverse description | Grey security underprint of repeating Chinese characters (芜湖市勾粮券) with pink security tint; blue letterpress text carries the title, denomination (貳市两), and year date (1983). Two official red administrative chop stamps are applied over the face. |
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| Obverse lettering | 芜湖市勾粮券 貳市两 1983 (Translation: Wuhu City Grain Voucher Two Shi Liang (100 grams) 1983) |
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Chinese municipal grain coupons (liangpiao) were a product of the rationing infrastructure put in place after 1955, when the state unified grain procurement and distribution under a single planned system. Wuhu, a Yangtze River port city in Anhui, issued its own local coupons valid only within city limits — a deliberate design to prevent inter-regional arbitrage and enforce household registration controls. By 1983 the system was already fraying; rural decollectivization had been underway since 1978, and urban rationing would be formally wound down within a decade.
Anhui holds a particular place in this history: the province's Fengyang County is where the illegal household farming contracts of 1978 originated, quietly accelerating the collapse of the very system these coupons administered.