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25 Kilograms - Food Stamp Xinzhou County, Hubei
| Issuer | Xinzhou County Government, Hubei Province |
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| Year | 1990 |
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| Value | 25 Kilograms |
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| Obverse description | Printed entirely in green ink, the obverse carries a central vignette of a rice paddy field with a tractor in the background and a prominent stalk of rice in the foreground, rendered in a simple lithographic style typical of Chinese county-level ration coupons. Textual legends are applied in black ink overprint, with an official administrative seal struck in red ink. The overall composition follows the austere, utilitarian design conventions of Chinese grain ration vouchers of the late reform era. |
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| Obverse lettering | 新洲县购粮券 农业口粮 贰拾伍公斤 一九九〇年效月当月有效过期作废 (Translation: Xinzhou County Food Stamp Agricultural food ration 25 Gong Jin (25 Kilograms) Valid for current month in 1990 expires at end of month) |
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Chinese county-level food and commodity ration coupons of this type were administrative instruments issued under the planned economy's rationing infrastructure, which persisted in rural areas well after urban markets began liberalizing in the mid-1980s. Hubei Province's grain-distribution bureaucracy operated largely independently at the county level, meaning Xinzhou County's coupons were non-transferable outside its own jurisdiction — useless the moment you crossed into the next county.
The denomination in kilograms rather than currency reflects the direct-commodity model: this exchanged for grain by weight, bypassing price entirely. China's ration coupon system was formally abolished nationally in 1993.