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50 Shi Jing - Fine Grain Food Stamp Jiaozuo, Henan
| Issuer | Jiaozuo City Grain Bureau, Henan Province |
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| Year | 1983 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 河南省细粮券 细 伍拾市斤 焦作市 一九八三年 |
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| Reverse lettering | 说明 一、凭本粮券只限于在指定市、区内向粮食部门购买粮食或粮食制成品，但不能在市场流通使用，出指定市、区无效。 二、本粮券系无价证券，严禁买卖、构造，遗失不补。 |
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Chinese local grain rationing coupons operated entirely outside the banking system — these were administrative instruments issued by municipal and provincial grain bureaus under the centrally planned allocation system that governed food staples from the 1950s until the early 1990s. Jiaozuo's 1983 series was valid only within the city's own distribution network, unusable even in neighboring counties, a restriction that made cross-border travel genuinely complicated for ordinary workers.
The "fine grain" (细粮) designation matters: it distinguished wheat flour and rice allotments from coarse grain rations, and access to it was tied to household registration status and work unit classification.