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5 Shi Liang - Food Stamps Fengdu County, Sichuan
| Issuer | Fengdu County Grain Bureau, Sichuan |
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| Year | 1982 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | 0.5 丰都县购粮券 伍市两 一九八二年 (Translation: Fengdu County food stamps 5 Shi Liang 1982) |
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| Reverse lettering | 使用说明 1. 本券只能在本县范围内非农业人口中流通使用，并进入市场购买粮食制成品。 2. 本券不得买卖、伪造、涂改和转换其他票证。 3. 本券如有遗失，概不补发。 |
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Chinese county-level grain rationing coupons of this period were administrative instruments, not currency — they entitled the bearer to purchase a specific weight of grain at state-controlled prices rather than representing monetary value in themselves. Fengdu County sits in what was then Sichuan Province (now administratively part of Chongqing Municipality following the 1997 reorganization), and its grain bureau operated within the national rationing framework that had been in place since the 1950s.
By 1982, the broader reform era was already beginning to erode the rationing system in coastal and urban areas, but inland county bureaus continued issuing local coupons well into the late 1980s. Fengdu examples from this transitional window are now collected precisely because the system was dismantled so thoroughly — most were redeemed or discarded, not preserved.