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PLA Army Senior Generals --- Commemorative Stamps

Date of issue: 27 September, 2005

Technical Details:

Serial number: 2005-20
Values in set: 10
Denomination: 8.00 yuan
Date of issue: 27 September, 2005
Designer of stamps: Ma Gang
Size of stamp: 30 * 40 mm
Perforation: 13.5 * 13
Sheet composition: 10
Size of sheet: 205 * 125 mm
Printing process: offset-engraving
Engraving designer: Jiang Weijie
Photographer of Original Photos: Cheng Mo (Picture 1, 5, 6, 8); Xu Wenhui (Picture 2); Huang Xu (Picture 3); Chen Zhijian (Picture 4); Shi Bingli, Jiang Liuxiang (Picture 7, 9, 10)
Printer: Beijing Stamp Printing House

(10-1)J Su Yu 0.80 yuan
(10-2)J Xu Haidong 0.80 yuan
(10-3)J Huang Kecheng 0.80 yuan
(10-4)J Chen Geng 0.80 yuan
(10-5)J Tan Zheng 0.80 yuan
(10-6)J Xiao Jinguang 0.80 yuan
(10-7)J Zhang Yunyi 0.80 yuan
(10-8)J Luo Ruiqing 0.80 yuan
(10-9)J Wang Shusheng 0.80 yuan
(10-10)J Xu Guangda 0.80 yuan

Background Informations:

On 27 September 2005, the State Post Bureau will issue a ten-piece set of commemorative stamps of "PLA Army Senior Generals" with a total face value of 8.00 yuan RMB. The stamp pictures are entitled respectively: Su Yu, Xu Haidong, Huang Kecheng, Chen Geng, Tan Zheng, Xiao Jinguang, Zhang Yunyi, Luo Ruiqing, Wang Shusheng and Xu Guangda.

The ten PLA army senior generals scored herioc achievements in the significant revolutionary wars led by the Communist Party of China. For decades, they went through tests of war, braved death and made glorious military exploit. Their superb operation strategies and art of command are precious treasures in the treasury of military thought of the PLA and the Chinese nation. Their monumental contribution to the establishment and building of a revolutionized, modernized and regularized valiant PLA will go down with history..

China National Philatelic Corporation will release ten FDCs.