Scott No: 1114-1116
Serial number: N63-65
Values in set: 3
Date of issue: March 8, 1973
Denomination: 24 fen
Designer: Yang Baizi, Zhang Yuan
Size of stamps: 30*40mm
Perforation: 11.5*11
Sheet composition: 50(10*5)
Printing process: Photogravure
Printing House: Beijing Postage Stamp Printing Works

Numbered Stamps 63-65 "Chinese Women" numbered stamps were issued on March 8, 1973. The set consists of 3 stamps, printed by photogravure, designed by Yang Baizi, and printed by the Beijing Stamp Factory. Stamp size 30 mm × 40 mm, perforation gauge 11.5 × 11, 50 stamps per sheet.

Theme of the Set

This set was issued on International Women's Day, selecting images of women in different posts to display the construction scenes of New China's women stepping out of the home and devoting themselves to industry, agriculture, grassroots medical work, and all walks of life, embodying the era's appearance of women holding up half the sky and praising the spirit of women in the new era in self-reliance and active participation in national construction.

Stamp Designs and Historical Background

New Recruits in the Mine

The design depicts the image of a woman miner, wearing a safety helmet and work clothes and holding a miner's lamp, with a mine derrick in the background, displaying the appearance of women devoting themselves to industrial production in the mines and making achievements on the industrial and mining frontline.

Woman Committee Member

The rural woman committee member in the design stands in the fields holding documents, with tiered terraced fields in the background, expressing the image of rural women participating in grassroots management, taking root in the countryside, and leading the masses in developing agricultural production.

Petrel

The design shows a woman barefoot doctor, with a medical kit on her back, wading through the waves on a seaside fishing village to make house calls, with the waves surging, embodying the dedication of grassroots women medical workers who fear no wind and rain and bring medical care and disease prevention to coastal fishermen.

Artistic Design Features

The set adopts a realistic poster style, with plain, weighty colors and high-spirited, full figures. The three stamps correspond respectively to the three posts of industry and mining, rural grassroots, and fishing village medical care, with different regional and industry scenes, jointly shaping the glorious image of New China's women in all walks of life. It is a representative work among the women's-themed numbered stamps of the 1970s.