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50 Grams - Flour Food Stamp Wuhai City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region
| Issuer | Wuhai City Grain Bureau, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region |
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| Year | 1990 |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in blue and red on a white paper ground, with a fine wavy-line guilloche underprint covering the entire field. A black letterpress vignette at left centre portrays an industrial complex with tall chimneys and refinery towers. The denomination '伍拾克' (Fifty Grams) appears in large blue characters within an orange hexagonal underprint at right, flanked by the weight notation '50g' in blue at both upper corners. The title inscription '乌海市市内面粉券' runs across the top in large blue Chinese characters, while a decorative blue guilloche border panel at the foot carries the issue year '1990' in a central cartouche. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50g 1、持居民粮证到粮店领取本券,并扣等量面粉。 2、此券只限在本市范围内使用。 3、券面额为成品粮。 4、本券严禁买卖、伪造、涂改无效,遗失不补。 (Translation: 50g 1. Present your resident grain certificate at the grain store to collect this coupon, and deduct an equivalent amount of flour. 2. This coupon is only valid within this city. 3. The face value of the coupon is for finished grain. 4. This coupon is strictly prohibited from being bought, sold, counterfeited, or altered; lost coupons will not be replaced.) |
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Chinese grain coupons of this type were administrative instruments of the rationing system that ran nationally from 1955 until its formal abolition in 1993. By 1990 the system was already collapsing at the edges — market reforms had made black-market grain freely available in most urban areas — but municipal bureaus like Wuhai's continued issuing denominated coupons because the bureaucratic infrastructure remained and local officials had little incentive to dismantle it early.
Wuhai is a small industrial city carved out of western Inner Mongolia in 1976, administratively distinct from the surrounding Bayannur and Ordos regions. Its grain bureau operated independently, which is why these hyper-local coupons exist at the 50-gram level — fractional denominations were used for canteen and workplace distribution, not household allocation.
Municipal-level flour stamps from this final phase of rationing were typically printed in short runs and discarded after redemption, making survivors disproportionately scarce relative to provincial-issue coupons.