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500 Grams - Rice Food Stamp Sìpíng City, Jilin
| Issuer | Food Bureau of Siping City (四平市粮食局) |
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| Year | 1987 |
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| Currency | Yuan Renminbi (1949-date) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed on a pale pink fine-line guilloche underprint enclosed within a blue decorative border, with symmetrical blue floral rosette vignettes at each corner. A central lens-shaped panel bears the heading '使用说明' (Instructions for Use) above two numbered clauses of text in simplified Chinese. A circular red official seal is impressed over the central text panel. |
| Reverse lettering | 使用说明 一、 本票只限在市内各粮油食品经营部购买粮油或制成品使用。 二、 本票严禁买卖丶伪造或涂改，遗失不补。 (Translation: Instructions for use 1. The stamp is good for redeem in the city's grain and oil department for grain and oil products use only. 2 The stamp is prohibited for resale, forged or altered, no reissued if lost.) |
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Chinese municipal food coupons (粮票) were a product of the planned rationing system introduced nationally in 1955, which required urban residents to present both money and grain coupons to purchase staple foods at state-run shops. Siping, an industrial city in central Jilin province, issued its own local series valid only within city limits — unlike provincial-level coupons, these could not be used across county or city boundaries, making them functionally useless outside their issuing jurisdiction.
By 1987 the system was already contracting as market reforms eroded central rationing. National abolition came in 1993.