Food Stamps Changxing County, Zhejiang

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.