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The 110th Birth Anniversary of Comrade Mao Zedong --- Commemorative Stamp

Date of issue: 6th Dec. 2003

Technical Details:

Serial number:2003-25
Values in set: 4
Denomination: 3.20 yuan
Date of issue: 6th December 2003
Designer: Ma Gang
Size of stamps: 50 * 38 mm
Perforation: 12
Sheet composition: 16 for Sheet I; 8 for Sheet II
Printing process: Offset-engraving
Printer: Henan Post & Telecommunication Printing Works

(4-1) J Mao Zedong in Xibaipo 80f
(4-2) J Mao Zedong in Beidaihe 80f
(4-3) J Mao Zedong in Lushan Mountain 80f
(4-4) J Mao Zedong in Guangzhou 80f

Background Informations:

Mao Zedong (12.26.1893 --- 9.9. 1976), born in Xiangtan, Hunan, is a great Marxist, proletarian revolutionist, strategist and theorist, one of the major founding-fathers and leaders of the Communist Party of China, the People's Liberation Army and the people's Republic of China, and the main creator of Mao Zedong Thought. He made extraordinary contributions to the founding of the new China and its socialist construction. On the occasion of his 110th birth anniversary, let us cherish the memory of the significant contributions of the great leader, and resolve to work hard for the revitalization of the Chinese nation.

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