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500 Grams - Cooking Oil Stamp Huaiyin City, Jiangsu
| Issuer | Huaiyin City Grain and Oil Supply Administration, Jiangsu |
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| Year | 1987 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Pink-toned paper with blue letterpress printing; central panel bears the issuing authority title, denomination in both metric and traditional Chinese units, and the year 1987. An official red administrative ink stamp is applied. Border ornaments frame the text. |
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| Reverse lettering | 使用说明 一、本券系无价证券，只限在市区范围内使用。 二、本券只限在粮油供应站购买食油之用。 三、本券严禁投机贩卖，涂改无效，遗失不补。 (Translation: Instructions for Use 1. This coupon is a non-monetary voucher, valid only within the urban district. 2. This coupon may only be used to purchase cooking oil at grain and oil supply stations. 3. Speculation and resale are strictly prohibited; alterations render it void; loss will not be compensated.) |
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Chinese municipal ration coupons of this type were issued by local grain and oil bureaus under the planned economy's commodity allocation system, which persisted well into the 1980s even as broader market reforms were already underway. Cooking oil remained tightly controlled — household allocations were tracked at the neighborhood committee level, and these stamps functioned as the physical mechanism of that control.
Huaiyin, in northern Jiangsu, was a mid-tier administrative city with no particular printing infrastructure of its own; local coupons were typically produced through provincial printing arrangements. By 1987, the national ration system for edible oils was approaching its final years — full deregulation came in the early 1990s.