Background Informations:
On 22 October 2006, the State Post Bureau issued a four-piece
set of commemorative stamps, entitled "The 70th Anniversary of The Victory of the Long March of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army ", with a total face value of 3.2yuan,and at the same time a souvenir sheet with a total face value of 6.0yuan..The pictures on the stamps are named "Sending off Red Army Soldiers",
"Zunyi Meeting", "Capturing the Luding Bridge"and
"Crossing the Grassland",respectively.The name of the picture in the souvenir sheet is "Joining Forces in The JingGang shan".
Seventy years ago,when the CPC and the Red Army were in a critical moment of life and death,the first,second and fourth front armies as well as the 25th army began unprecedented Long March successively,and won a victory that stunned the world.The victory of the Long March shows the outstanding capability of the Chinese Communists in leading the revolutionary war,the undaunted spirit of the Red Army officers and soldiers who had sacrificed their lives for national independence and people's revolutionary war was unbeatable.This victory realized the strategy of the CPC to go to the north to resist Japanese aggression,publicized the CPC's advocacy,disseminated the seeds of revolution,tempered the revolutionary force,formed the central leading group with Mao Zedong as the core,established the ideological line of seeking truth from facts,turned Chinese revolution from defeat to victory,hence composing a heroic epic of the CPC,the Red Army and the Chinese nation.More importantly,the Long March forged the great Long March Spirit.This si a spirit that put the fundamental interests of the nation and the people above anything else,fortified revolutionary ideal and faith,was convinced that the just cause was invincible;that,to save the nation and the people,encouraged people to fear no hardship and difficulty,and made every sacrifice when necessary;that maintained independence,sought truth from faces;that exercised strict discipline for the overall interests and upheld unity;that relied on the masses,going through thick and thin together with the masses.Today, this spirit inspires us to carry out our construction of socialistic modernization through opening-up and reform,to build a well-off society in an all-round way,to construct a harmonious socialist society,and to create the new situation of socialism with Chinese characteristics and to embark on the new Long March of turing China into a strong,prosperous,democratic,culturally advanced,modernized and harmonious socialist country and bring about the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
