Special Stamps:Traditional Sports of Ethnic Groups

In celebration of the September 2003 Seventh National Games for Traditional Sports of Ethnic Minorities, the State Postal Bureau of China has issued a set of four special stamps picturing China's ethnic sports. They feature Mongolian wrestlers, Tibetan whistling archery, Uygur horse racing and Korean swinging.     

Paphiopedilum

The State Postal Bureau has issued a set of four stamps picturing paphiopedilum, which is the first set of rhombus stamps ever issued in China.Paphiopedilum, a famous subgenus of the orchid family, comprises herbaceous perennials that grow in the tropical…     

Special Stamps:Gibbons

In December 2002, the State Postal Bureau issued a set of four special stamps featuring gibbons.There are nine species of gibbon, mainly distributed through Southeast Asia. China's Yunnan and Hainan provinces, and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region are home to four of these species. This 0.4-0.6-meter-tall primate's most distinguishing feature is its unusually long forelimbs. It lives in groups, in tropical rain forests and subtropi-     

Kongtong Mountain

IN July 2003, the State Postal Bureau issued a set of four special stamps featuringKongtong Mountain, continuing on the theme of China's famous mountains and rivers. Situated 12 kilometers west of Kongtong District in Pingliang City, Gansu Province,Kongtong Mountain is celebrated as "the first Taoist Mountain under Heaven." It is saidthat it was here that Guang Chengzi cultivated himself to attain immortality, and that the     

Highway Bridges over the Yangtze River─Special Stamps

In 1957, the first bridge over the Yangtze River was completed at Wuhan. Now, adozen highway bridges span China's longest river, indicating that China is among themost advanced countries in the world in bridge construction technology.Zou Jianjun has been engaged in stamp designing since he graduated from theCentral Academy of Fine Arts in 1967. He draws all his patterns by hand.Stamp 1 features an arched bridge over the upper reaches of the Yangtze betweenslopes of two mountains in Wanxia…     

Special Stamps:Qinghai Lake

On July 20, 2002, the State Postal Bureau issued a set of three stamps picturing the Qinghai Lake shore, Bird Island, and the distant view.Located on the northeastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, in West China's Qinghai Province, Qinghai Lake is 3,196 meters above sea level, and the biggest inland lake in China. Oils have been used to capture its magnificence.Bird Island on Qinghai Lake is a     

Special Stamps: The Datong River Diversion Project

On August 26, 2001, the State Postal Bureau issued a set of four stamps picturing the Datong River Diversion Project.The Datong River Diversion Project is a large-scale water conservancy project that traverses Qinghai and Gansu Provinces. It is 884.3 kilometers in length and diverts Datong river-water, originating in the Qilian Mountains in Qinghai Province, to the Qinwangchuan area north of Lanzhou City, Gansu Province.This set illustrates four sections of the project, namely, the K…     

Special Stamps: Painted Sculptures of Jin Ci Temple

In August 2003, the State Postal Bureau of China issued a set of four special stamps dedicated to the painted sculptures of Jin Ci Temple in celebration of the 2500th anniversary of Taiyuan, capital of Shanxi. Standing on Xuanweng Mountain, the fountainhead of Jinshui River, the Jin     

国家名片:少数民族题材邮票纵览(英文)

正Since the founding of People's Republic of China,themes involving China's ethnic groups have been an important topic for stamps issued by the national posts and telecommunications section of the government.The stamps have reflected tremendous advances within China's 55 ethnic groups and their home areas.The stamps and postcards vividly depict aspects of cultural life,politics,economy,culture and human     

Stamps of New China： Ancient Villages in Southern Anhui-Special Stamps

On June 25, 2004 the State Postal Bureau issued a set of four special stamps entitled “Ancient Villages in Southern Anhui - Xidi and Hongcun Villages.” The stamps depict two ancient villages in Yixian County, southern Anhui Province, which UNESCO added to the World Heritage List on November 30, 2000.     

Construction of Shenzhen Special Economic Zone

Shenzhen was the first special economic zone established after China's reform and opening up to the outsideworld. Over a period of two decades, a formerly shabby,frontier town has transformed into an international marketplace, exuberant in its economic prosperity and socialprogress. As the most rapidly developed city in China,Shenzhen stands as a symbol of China's reform andopening.Five special stamps depict the construction of theShenzhen Special Economic Zone.Stamp 1 celebrates the city'…     

Ancient Water Towns

The Ancient Water Towns set comprises six stamps, and depicts the picturesque scenery ofKunshan's Zhouzhuang, Wujiang's Tongli and Wu-xian's Luzhi ill Jiangsu Province, andTongxian's Wuzhen, HuZhou's Nanxun and Jiashan's Xitang in Zhejiang Province.The designer of this set has used the ink and wash techniques of traditional Chinese painting,and alternative Perspectives in vivid portrayals of these ancient water towns in southern China.Stamp 1 pictures Kunshan's Zhouzhuang from a hori…     

Special Stamps: Meteorological Achievements

China has a vast territory, with a varied terrain and distinctive climatic conditions. Since the founding of new China, meteorological science has rapidly developed, to the benefit of the national economy and people's lives. The current scale of modernization and the technological and research level of Chinese meteorological field put China in the leading position among developing countries, and, in certain aspects, it is at a world advanced level. This set of special stamps is issued to mark…     

Xu Xian and White Snake

On December 5, 2001, China issued a set of four special stamps featuring "Xu Xian and WhiteSnake."     

Special Stamps:Huangguoshu Waterfalls

In July 2001 the State Postal Bureau issued a set of three special stamps picturing theHuangguoshu Waterfalls.Located on the Baishui River, Guizhou Province in southwest China, HuangguoshuWaterfalls are among the largest in China and in the world as well. They are 81 meterswide, and have a drop of 74 meters.Huangguoshu waterfalls are located on a typical karst terrain. Over the long period ofchanges in various river courses, the riverbed has gradually subsided, forming the cascadesthat n…     

Special Stamps：The Double Ninth Festival

In 2003, the State Postal Bureau issued a set of three special stamps, the fourth of its kind following sets released to celebrate the Spring Festival, Double Fifth and Mid-Autumn Festivals.The Double Ninth Festival, falling on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, is one of China's traditional celebrations. An Eastern Han Dynasty (A.D. 25-220) legend tells of a demon that appeared in Ruhe (in present-day Henan Province) on the ninth day of the ninth     

Not Quite There Yet

Despite China's remarkable economic achievements, staggering trade volume and trillions of dollars in foreign exchange reserves, it remains a developing country. Zhou Shijian, Standing Councilor of the China Association of International Trade , and Wang Lijun, Associate Prof essor at the Capital University of Economics and Business, have tried to set the record straight and present a true picture of China's curren t economic status in the global context. They believe that a developed China is still far from a reality. In explaining the gap caused by different economic measurement standards between China and the Western world , they note that China's economic capacity as seen by others is somewhat exaggerated .     

Are M&As Suffocating Chinese Business?

A series of recent foreign capital mergers and acquisitions (M&A) of Chinese businesses has raised concern about China's economic security. Will these actions damage China's national interests and is it necessary for China to set a bottom line in this field? Yang Fan, a professor at the China University of Political Science and Law, and He Maochun, Director of the Research Center of Economy and Diplomacy, Tsinghua University, were recently published in the Global Times, analyzing the impact of foreign M&A deals on China's economy from different perspectives. The following are excerpts from their commentaries:     

Special Slamps:Sily

In March 2003, the State Postal Bureau issued a set of four stamps featuring the lily. A famous and popular decorative flower, the lily signifies purity, elegance, life-long happiness and perfect harmony.     

Young and Unemployed

ONE person in every 11 under the age of 30 in China is unemployed. This alarming statistic comes from the Report on China's First Youth Employment Survey, conducted by the All-China Youth Federation and the Labor Science Institute of the Labor and Social Security Ministry in May 2005. The report covers 7,000 individuals under the age of 30 and 220 enterprises in four cities