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5 Shi Jin - Shandong Province Food Stamp
| Issuer | Shandong Province Grain Bureau |
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| Year | 1978-1984 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse lettering | 山东省粮票 伍市斤 5 1984 |
| Reverse description | Pink diagonal-line underprint fills the central panel, framed by a green letterpress border of stylised floral and foliate motifs with numeral 5 medallions at left and right. Three numbered clauses of usage instructions in simplified Chinese script are headed 山东省粮票说明. A circular red official seal bearing a five-pointed star is applied to the centre. |
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Chinese provincial food stamps — liangpiao — operated as a parallel rationing currency from the 1950s through the early 1990s, and Shandong's grain bureau issues were among the more systematically administered in northern China. These were not optional vouchers; without them, a resident could not purchase grain at state-controlled prices regardless of how much cash they held. The 5 shi jin denomination covers a meaningful ration unit — shi jin being the standard Chinese catty of 500 grams, so this note authorizes the purchase of 2.5 kilograms of grain.
The seven-year validity window across the 1978–1984 period spans the earliest years of Deng Xiaoping's reform program, during which the rationing system was quietly being undermined by the first free markets even as the stamps themselves remained legally mandatory.