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5 Chi - Zhejiang Province Cloth Stamp
| Issuer | Zhejiang Province (People's Republic of China) |
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| Year | 1984 |
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| Obverse description | Pink and blue voucher with a blue guilloche border framing the central field. A red circular official seal with a five-pointed star at centre-left is flanked by a central orange rosette underprint. The denomination 伍市尺 is printed in large black characters, with the year 1984 in red; a detachable counterfoil stub at right bears 副券 and the numeral 5 in red. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted reverse in plain pink-toned paper, without any design, lettering, or security features. |
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Cloth ration coupons were a cornerstone of China's planned distribution system from the early 1950s until their abolition in 1983–1984, when the State Council formally ended the national rationing framework. Zhejiang Province continued issuing provincial cloth stamps into 1984 as the system wound down, producing what amount to some of the final examples of a mechanism that had governed how hundreds of millions of people bought fabric for three decades.
The "chi" is a traditional Chinese unit of length — approximately 33 centimeters — used specifically for measuring cloth. Five chi was a meaningful monthly allocation, roughly enough for a single garment.