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500 Grams - White Flour Stamp Siping City, Jilin
| Issuer | Food Bureau of Siping City (四平市粮食局) |
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| Year | 1987 |
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| Obverse description | Printed in brown and black ink on white paper. The left side carries the denomination and food type designation; the right side bears a vignette of the Siping Martyrs Monument. The issue date 1987 appears below the central text block. |
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| Obverse lettering | 四平市浪食局居民口粮供应票 精粉 500克 1987 (Translation: People's rationing food stamp for the Food Bureau of Siping City Refined Powder (White Flour) 500 Grams 1987) |
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Siping's grain rationing system persisted well into the reform era, and this 1987 flour stamp reflects the administrative friction of that transition — market liberalization was already underway nationally, yet municipal food bureaus across northeastern China continued issuing ration coupons for staple grains because local supply chains hadn't caught up with central policy. The Food Bureau stamps of Jilin province from this period are among the more systematically issued, with denominations tied to specific commodities rather than the generalized grain-unit stamps common elsewhere.
White flour allocations were tracked separately from coarse grain, reflecting genuine dietary stratification in the ration system.