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500 Grams - Food Stamp Baotou City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region
| Issuer | Baotou City Grain Bureau, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region |
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| Year | 1991 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Purple and red-toned voucher with a diagonal line underprint on a plain field; Chinese title and Mongolian script inscription appear above the central denomination, with a vignette of an airport building scene at centre. The date 1991 is printed at lower left. |
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| Obverse lettering | 包 头 市 地 方 粮 票 伍佰克 (壹市 斤) 1991 (Translation: Baotou Food Stamp 500 Ke (500 grams) 1 Shi Jin (500 grams) 1991) |
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Chinese municipal grain ration coupons of this period were administrative instruments, not currency — issued by local grain bureaus under the state rationing system that had governed food distribution since the 1950s. By 1991, that system was already being dismantled province by province as market reforms accelerated, making late-issue coupons like this one short-lived in practice. Baotou, as a major industrial center built largely around steel production, had a large non-agricultural population entirely dependent on such allocations.
National grain rationing was formally abolished in 1993, rendering these coupons void within two years of printing.