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5 Shi Jin - Food Stamp Jiangyou, Sichuan
| Issuer | Jiangyou County Grain Bureau (江油县粮食局) |
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| Year | 1980 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Printed in purple and orange on a light ground, the obverse carries at left a vignette of an industrial or agricultural scene with a derrick or drilling tower set against a mountainous backdrop with figures in the foreground. The title inscription 江油县购粮券 appears in bold Chinese characters at upper centre, flanked by the numeral 5 in each upper corner, while the denomination 伍市斤 is set in large characters within an orange scalloped guilloche cartouche to the right. A decorative border band at the base frames a central medallion bearing the year 1980, with the numeral 5 repeated in diamond motifs at each side. |
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| Obverse lettering | 江油县购粮券 伍市斤 5 1980 (Translation: Jiangyou county food stamp 5 Shi Jin) |
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Chinese county-level grain coupons like this one were instruments of the rationing system administered under the hukou framework — a household registration mechanism that tied food allocations to specific localities. A coupon issued by Jiangyou County's Grain Bureau was redeemable only within that county's network of state grain stations, making it functionally useless ten kilometers past the jurisdictional boundary. This was deliberate policy, not administrative oversight.
By 1980, the national rationing apparatus was already fraying at its edges. Rural decollectivization was quietly accelerating under the household responsibility reforms, and local grain bureaus were issuing these coupons into a system that would be substantially dismantled within a decade. Jiangyou itself is in Mianyang prefecture, a grain-producing region where the irony of rationing rice in rice country was not lost on residents.