In the early days of the founding of New China, due to the shortage of materials, the contradiction between supply and demand of daily necessities related to people's livelihood was prominent. 1953, 10 in June, the state promulgated the policy of unified purchase and marketing, and since then people's lives have entered the "ticket era" for more than 40 years.

At that time, all kinds of tickets flooded the mountain city, such as food tickets, meat tickets, cloth tickets, salt tickets, oil tickets, coal tickets, tobacco tickets, vegetable tickets ... even tickets were needed to buy sweets and cakes, matches and soap, and tickets gradually became the guarantee for urban and rural residents to eat and wear warm clothes. It was not until the mid-1990s that this kind of ticket ended its special status and circulation.

Since the reform and opening up from 65438 to 0979, the state has gradually narrowed the distribution scope of consumer goods. By 1983, only two kinds of food and edible oil were supplied in limited quantities by the state, and 1985, which had been implemented for more than 30 years, was cancelled.

During the period of 1992- 1997, the ticket system finally withdrew from the historical stage nationwide. The end of this era marked that China had moved from the era of shortage of planned economy to the era of surplus of market economy.

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Classification and characteristics

Commodity tickets in various places are usually divided into three categories: "eat, wear and use". In addition to all kinds of grain and oil tickets, there are tickets for pigs, beef, mutton, chickens, ducks, fish and eggs, all kinds of sugar tickets, all kinds of bean products tickets and all kinds of vegetables tickets, and so on. In addition to all kinds of cloth tickets, there are chemical fiber tickets, cotton tickets, undershirts, vest tickets, cloth shoes tickets, cotton tires tickets and so on.

Handkerchiefs, soap, toilet paper, washing powder, matches, rag tickets, kerosene tickets, various coal tickets, commodity purchase vouchers, electronic tickets, self-propelled tickets, watch tickets, temporary tickets, motor tickets, etc. It's really varied, involving all aspects of various fields. In a word, most goods are supplied by ticket.

What kind of goods to buy with the corresponding food stamps are indispensable. So what are the varieties of food stamps in this big family? To give a few examples, there are direct food stamps, such as rice tickets, flour tickets, coarse grain tickets, fine food tickets, millet tickets, potato tickets and so on.

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