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5 Shi Liang - Flour Stamp Xining City, Qinghai
| Issuer | Xining City Grain Bureau, Qinghai |
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| Year | 1973 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Purple-toned voucher printed in dark purple ink with an ornate guilloche border. Central vignette shows a large industrial machine; the issuer title and denomination appear in Chinese characters above and below the vignette. The date 1973 is printed at the lower portion. |
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| Obverse lettering | 西宁市面 票 伍市两 1973 (Translation: Xining City Flour Stamp 5 Shi Liang (250 grams) 1973) |
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Grain ration coupons issued by municipal grain bureaus were a structural feature of China's planned distribution system from the early 1950s onward, but provincial and city-level stamps like this one from Xining carry an added dimension — Qinghai was simultaneously a frontier province with significant state farm infrastructure and a major site of laogai labor camps, meaning grain allocation logistics there were more politically complicated than in most inland cities.
Flour specifically, rather than general grain weight, indicates this was calibrated for Han dietary staples — a distinction that carried quiet ethnic and administrative significance in a predominantly Tibetan and Hui region.