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5 Kilo - Flour Stamp Siping City, Jilin
| Issuer | Food Bureau of Siping City (四平市粮食局) |
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| Year | 1987 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Printed in brown and black ink on white paper. At left, the food type and denomination are indicated; at right, a vignette of the Siping Martyrs Monument appears as the central design element. The issue date 1987 is printed below. |
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| Reverse lettering | 使用说明 一、 本票只限在市内各粮油食品经营部购买粮油或制成品使用。 二、 本票严禁买卖丶伪造或涂改，遗失不补。 (Translation: Instructions for use 1. The stamp is good for redeem in the city's grain and oil department for grain and oil products use only. 2. The stamp is prohibited for resale, forged or altered, no reissued if lost.) |
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Siping sits in central Jilin province, and in 1987 the grain rationing apparatus established under Mao was still very much operational — though visibly fraying. Municipal food bureaus issued stamps like this one to control the distribution of staple commodities at subsidized state prices, a system that would survive only another few years before being largely dismantled between 1991 and 1993. The flour denomination specifically reflects the wheat-consuming habits of northeastern China, where steamed buns and noodles dominated over rice.
These municipal-level ration instruments were printed in enormous quantities but almost never saved. Most were exchanged, torn, or discarded at the point of redemption, which is why surviving examples — even from as recently as the late 1980s — are genuinely uncommon in collectible condition.