PEKING RATIONING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP71T00730R000400320104-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 27, 2001
• Sequence Number: 104
• Content Type: REPORT

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Peking - Rationing of Reg consumer goods was enforced for the
first time in peking beginning yesterday.
Some 50 items ranging from kitchen utesils to bicycles and including
razors and. watches will henceforth be sold. only against coupons on 20
yuan each, which will be made available by the authorities to the
public on a pro rata basis of individual earnings.
Similar measures have already come into effect in major Chinese towns
such as Shanghai, Wuhan, and Tientsin since last January. The
measures are a part of the government's market-stabilization and
and planned-distribution policy, and are inkoxEmpkodx interpreted,
here as a sign of change in the (word indistinct) supply situation.
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