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5 Kilogram - Flour Stamp Shiyan City, Hubei
| Issuer | Shiyan City Grain Bureau, Hubei Province |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Size | 75 x 32 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | 十堰市城区购粮券 8月 当月有效 面粉 伍公折 1996 (Translation: Shiyan City Grain Voucher August Valid only for the current month Flour 5 Gong Jin (5 kilograms) 1996) |
| Reverse description | Reverse is entirely blank, printed on plain unadorned white paper stock with no inscriptions, vignettes, or security devices. |
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Chinese grain ration coupons (liangpiao) were a fixture of the planned economy from the 1950s onward, but by the mid-1990s most provinces had already begun dismantling their rationing systems following the 1993 national grain market liberalization. A municipal flour coupon still being issued in 1996 suggests Shiyan's local grain bureau was lagging behind the broader deregulation — or maintaining a parallel distribution channel for state employees and factory workers, which remained common in inland industrial cities longer than in coastal provinces.
Shiyan was built almost entirely around the Dongfeng Motor Corporation's truck manufacturing complex, and the bureau's continued operation into the reform period likely reflects that captive, work-unit-dependent population.