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5 Kilogram - Refined Flour Food Stamp Sìpíng City, Jilin
| Issuer | Siping City Grain Bureau (四平市粮食局) |
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| Year | 1987 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | 四平市粮食局居民口粮供应票 精粉 伍公斤 1987 (Translation: People's rationing food stamp for the Grain Bureau of Siping City Refined Flour 5 Kilogram 1987) |
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| Reverse lettering | 使用说明 一、本票只限在市内本粮油食品经营部购买粮食及制成品使用。 二、本票严禁买卖、伪造或涂改，遗失不补。 (Translation: Instructions for use 1. This voucher is only valid for purchasing grain and processed food products at grain and oil food business units within the city. 2. Trading, forging or altering this voucher is strictly prohibited. Lost vouchers will not be reissued.) |
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Chinese grain ration coupons (粮票, liángpiào) were a product of the planned economy's unified purchase and supply system, introduced nationally in 1955. By 1987, when Siping issued this stamp, the system was already being dismantled piecemeal — urban free markets had been expanding since the early 1980s, and national grain coupons were losing their grip. Municipal and county-level bureaus continued issuing local coupons into the late 1980s partly out of institutional inertia, partly because local grain stocks still moved through state channels.
Siping's coupons were non-transferable outside the city's jurisdiction. A 5-kilogram refined flour denomination is on the heavier end for a single stamp — coarser grain allocations were more commonly broken into smaller increments.