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5 Shi Jin - Flour Stamp Ebian County, Sichuan
| Issuer | Ebian County Grain Bureau (峨边县粮食局), Sichuan |
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| Year | 1979 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in brown on a pink fine-line guilloche underprint, fully enclosed within a decorative engine-turned border. Three numbered clauses of usage instructions in Chinese characters occupy the central field, with a circular official red ink control stamp of the Ebian County Grain Bureau (峨边县粮食局) applied at centre, partially overlapping the text. |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
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Grain and flour stamps (粮票) issued at the county level occupied the lowest tier of China's rationing hierarchy — valid only within the issuing county's borders, useless anywhere else. Ebian County sits in the mountainous southwestern fringe of Sichuan, a predominantly Yi ethnic minority area that was designated an autonomous county in 1984. The Grain Bureau stamps from this period were administrative instruments of the planned economy, authorizing the bearer to purchase a fixed quantity of flour at state-set prices.
By 1979, national food rationing had been in place for over two decades, and local grain bureaus across China were still printing their own county-specific scrip. Ebian's issue would have circulated for only a few years — nationwide grain rationing was progressively wound down through the 1980s and formally abolished in 1993.