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5 Shi Jin - Food Stamp Xichang City, Sichuan
| Issuer | Xichang City Grain Bureau, Sichuan |
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| Year | 1981 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Reverse description | Blue guilloche border frames a plain field carrying three numbered clauses of usage instructions in Chinese. At centre, a circular official red seal bearing a five-pointed star is applied by hand-stamp. |
| Reverse lettering | 一．凭本票在本市范围内购买粮食及粮食制成品。 二．本票票面额为成品粮。 三．本票不准买卖，严禁伪造，涂改无效，遗失不补。 |
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Chinese local grain ration coupons of this type — issued by municipal and county-level grain bureaus rather than any central authority — proliferated across the People's Republic from the 1950s through the early 1990s, forming a parallel distribution system entirely separate from currency. Xichang, the administrative center of the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture in southern Sichuan, operated its own bureau-level issues independently of both provincial and national grain coupon series. The 1981 date places this squarely within the early reform period, when the ration coupon infrastructure was already beginning to strain against the first liberalizations of agricultural markets under Deng Xiaoping.
Local issues like this one were non-transferable in principle, restricted to registered households within the issuing jurisdiction. In practice, a secondary exchange market existed in most cities.