Frontier Scenes of China --- Special Stamps

 
Date of issue: 1st October 2004
 






 

Technical Details:

Serial number: 2004-24
Valuesin set: 12
Denomination: 9.60 yuan
Date of issue: 1st October 2004
Designer: Hao Xudong
Size of stamp: 50 * 30 mm
Perforation: 13 * 12.5
Sheet composition: 8
Printing process: gravure
Printer:Beijing Postage Stamp Printing House

(12-1)T Forest of Xing'an Mountains 80f
(12-2)T Lake in the Yalu River Basin 80f
(12-3)T Reefs in the Yellow Sea 80f
(12-4)T Zhoushan Archipelago 80f
(12-5)T Coastline of Taiwan 80f
(12-6)T Xisha Islands 80f
(12-7)T Karst Landscape in Southern Guangxi 80f
(12-8)T Rain Forest in Southern Yunnan 80f
(12-9)T Mount Qomolangma 80f
(12-10)T The Pamirs 80f
(12-11)T Badain Jaran Desert 80f
(12-12)T Hulun Buir Steppe 80f

 

Background Informations:

With a vast territory and territorial sea, China has a 20,000km-long border and a continental coastline of 18,000km. Covering a land area of 9.6 million square kilometres from the Pamirs in central Asia to the western part of the Pacific, from the central line of the Heilongjiang River in the cold temperate zone to the Zengmu Shoal clos to the equator, China has six neighboring countries across the sea, and borders 15 countries. All of the five fundamental topographies can be found in China. China's frontiers boast unique topographic features and diversified scenery, which are displayed in this set of stamps. It is the first time that the frontier scenes has been selected as pictures on stamps.

China National Philatelic Corporation will release a set of four FDCs.

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