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Food Stamps Changxing County, Zhejiang
| Issuer | Changxing County Grain Bureau |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Cream paper printed in red throughout. The issuer's name appears across the top, with the legend 粮食供应券 and month numeral 6 to the right of a central circular official seal bearing a five-pointed star. The year 一九九六年 is printed along the lower margin, with validity notices in a vertical panel at right. |
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| Obverse lettering | 长兴县粮食局 粮食供应券 6 一九九六年 当月使用 过期作废 (Translation: Changxing County Grain Bureau food supply stamps June 1996 Using at current month invalid if expired) |
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China's grain rationing system, which had governed food distribution since the early 1950s, was being dismantled county by county through the mid-1990s as market reforms rendered it redundant. Changxing County's Grain Bureau was among the last tiers of local administration still issuing physical coupons at this point — most urban centers had already abandoned the system by 1993 when national grain rationing officially ended. A county-level bureau continuing to print its own stamps in 1996 suggests either a delayed local transition or a specific distribution program operating outside the reformed national framework.