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Food Stamp Kai County, Sichuan
| Issuer | Kai County Grain Bureau, Sichuan Province |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| In circulation to | Yes |
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| Obverse description | Plain white paper printed in dark green letterpress ink with a rectangular border. The issuer name and title are printed in bold Chinese characters at centre, with the validity date below; a circular red official seal stamp appears at upper right. A cautionary legend in smaller characters runs along the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | 开县 粮食供应票 98年6月 凭票持粮证购买无价券严禁买卖 |
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Kai County — now Kaixian — was submerged by the Three Gorges Reservoir in the early 2000s, making its local administrative scrip among the more geographically specific casualties of that resettlement. The Grain Bureau issued these food stamps as part of the rationing apparatus that China was already dismantling nationally; the urban grain ration system was formally abolished in 1993, but rural and county-level bureaus continued issuing supplementary stamps well into the late 1990s as the transition lagged behind policy.
This is almost certainly a late survival of a dying system rather than routine issue.