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2500 Grams - Flour Food Stamp Wuhai City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region
| Issuer | Wuhai City Grain Bureau, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region |
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| Year | 1990 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Light guilloche underprint covers the entire field. A letterpress vignette on the left half shows an industrial complex with chimneys and refinery structures. To the right, the denomination in large Chinese formal script is set within an orange cloud-shaped underprint. The date 1990 appears in a decorative guilloche border at the foot. |
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| Reverse lettering | 2500g 1、持居民粮证到粮店领取本券，并扣等量面粉。 2、此券只限在本市范围内使用。 3、券面额为成品粮。 4、本券严禁买卖、伪造，涂改无效，遗失不补。 2500g |
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Chinese municipal food rationing coupons of this type were administrative instruments tied directly to the household registration system — a resident of Wuhai could not simply use a coupon issued in Baotou or Hohhot. Wuhai, a coal-mining city on the Yellow River formally established only in 1976 through the merger of three mining districts, maintained its own municipal grain bureau with independent allocation authority well into the reform period.
By 1990 the national ration system was already being dismantled in coastal cities, but inland industrial municipalities like Wuhai retained coupon-based flour distribution for state-sector workers until the early 1990s. The 2500-gram denomination corresponds roughly to a single adult's monthly flour allocation under the standard heavy-labor quota.