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5 Shi Jin - Food Stamp Wuhu City, Anhui
| Issuer | Wuhu City Grain Bureau, Anhui Province |
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| Year | 1982 |
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| In circulation to | Yes |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream field enclosed within an ochre ornamental border with scroll corner devices. A headed block of usage regulations in Chinese reads '使用说明' followed by two numbered clauses printed in ochre letterpress, restricting the voucher to local circulation and prohibiting its sale or transfer. |
| Reverse lettering | 使用说明 一、本券限在本市流通使用，遗失不补。 二、本券为无价证券，不准买卖伪造。 |
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Chinese municipal food coupons (liangpiao) were administrative instruments, not currency — issued by local grain bureaus under the rationing system that governed staple food distribution from the 1950s through the early 1990s. Wuhu's coupons were valid only within the city limits; a resident traveling to another prefecture needed to exchange their local tickets at a grain station for regional or national-issue coupons, a bureaucratic friction that was entirely intentional.
By 1982, national policy was already tilting toward market liberalization, and many urban rationing systems were quietly winding down. This 5 shi jin example predates Wuhu's formal abolition of grain rationing by roughly a decade.