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5 Kiko - Coarse Grains Stamp Siping City, Jilin
| Issuer | Siping City Food Bureau (四平市粮食局) |
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| Year | 1987 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Printed in brown and black ink on white paper. At left, the denomination and grain type are indicated in Chinese characters; at right, a vignette of the Siping Martyrs Monument. The issue year 1987 appears in the lower portion. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in black and pink on white paper. The reverse carries usage stipulations in Chinese text arranged in numbered clauses, with a red official seal applied over the text. |
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Grain ration coupons issued by municipal food bureaus were a fixture of China's planned economy from the 1950s onward, but by 1987 the system was already fraying. National grain rationing was formally abolished in 1993, making late-issue provincial and municipal coupons like this one products of the system's final years — printed and circulated in a window when central planning and market reform were running simultaneously and uneasily.
The "coarse grains" (粗粮) designation matters. Urban ration allocations distinguished between fine grains — wheat flour, polished rice — and coarse grains such as corn, sorghum, and millet, which carried lower prestige and were issued separately. Holding a coarse grain stamp rather than a fine grain allocation said something about household status and supply conditions in Siping at the time.