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3 Shi Jin - Meat Stamp Wusheng County, Sichuan
| Issuer | Wusheng County Food Bureau, Sichuan |
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| Year | 1979 |
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| Size | 65 x 40 mm |
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| Obverse description | Red letterpress printing on cream paper. The title inscription runs across the top in large bold simplified Chinese characters. Two circular official seals appear at centre-left — one in green ink bearing a five-pointed star and the text of Wusheng County Food Bureau dated 1979, the second in red also centred with a star device — alongside a denomination panel at right. Restrictive notices are printed in smaller characters below the seals. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted reverse in plain light pink-toned paper, completely blank with no text, vignette, or underprint. |
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Chinese county-level food ration coupons of this period were administered independently by local bureaus, which is why denominations, formats, and issuing authorities vary so dramatically even within a single province. Wusheng County, a small administrative unit in Guang'an Prefecture, issued its own meat allocation stamps outside the national grain coupon system — local food bureaus retained this authority well into the reform period, even as Deng Xiaoping's market liberalization was already underway in the countryside by 1979.
The "shi jin" unit (市斤, the Chinese standard catty of 500g) places this squarely in pre-metric everyday commerce. Three catties of meat was a meaningful monthly allocation for a rural household at this time.