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5 Shi Jin - Food Stamps Pingxiang City, Jiangxi
| Issuer | Pingxiang City Grain Bureau, Jiangxi Province |
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| Year | 1984 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse lettering | 5 萍乡市粮券 5 伍市斤 1984 |
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| Reverse lettering | 使用说明 1. 凭本券可在本市范围内购买粮食或粮食制成品。 2. 本券不准买卖，涂改无效，遗失不补。 5 5 |
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China's grain rationing system, in place since the 1950s, operated through a parallel bureaucracy of local grain bureaus — each city and county issuing its own coupons, redeemable only within its jurisdiction. Pingxiang, an industrial coal-mining city in western Jiangxi, would have issued these primarily for its urban registered population, whose grain allocations were tied to household registration under the hukou system.
By 1984 the national rationing apparatus was already beginning to fracture, as market reforms quietly undermined it. Full abolition came in 1993.