Scott No: 1019-36
Serial number: R14
Values in set: 11
Date of issue: September 25, 1971
Denomination: 200 fen
Designer: Li Dawei, Zhang Kerang, Yang Baizi, Xu Yanbo
Engraver: Sun Hongnian
Size of stamps:
23*27.5mm for Value 1;
27.5x22mm for rest
Perforation: 11.5
Sheet composition:
80(10*8) for Value 8, 10;
100(10*10) for rest
Printing process:
Engraving and photogravure for Value 8, 10;
Photogravure for rest
Printing House: Beijing Postage Stamp Printing Works

Issued in batches from 25 September 1971, the set contains 11 stamps. Designed by Li Dawei, Zhang Kerang and Yang Baizi, Xu Yanbo, engraved by Sun Hongnian, and printed by Beijing Stamp Factory. Stamps No.8 and No.10 are printed in combined photogravure and engraved recess printing; the rest are photogravure. Stamp No.1 measures 23mm × 27.5mm; the others measure 27.5mm × 22mm. Perforation: 11.5. Sheet composition: 100 stamps for most denominations; 80 stamps per sheet for No.8 and No.10.

Main Theme of the Set

This series of regular stamps continues the theme of revolutionary sacred sites. It selects a number of memorial sites with milestone significance in the history of the Chinese revolution, covering key historical moments including the founding of the Party, the peasant movement, the founding of the army, the Long March, the Yan’an period and the founding of New China. As regular stamps for everyday postal use, affixed to all kinds of letters and parcels, they spread knowledge of revolutionary history to the broad public and carry forward the red revolutionary spirit.

Stamp Designs and Historical Context

Site of the First National Congress of the CPC

The central motif is the Shikumen building at the Site of the First National Congress of the CPC on Xingye Road, Shanghai. The building is solemn and elegant, the birthplace of the Communist Party of China, witnessing the epoch-making moment of its founding.

Guangzhou Peasant Movement Training Institute

The stamp shows the former site of the Guangzhou Peasant Movement Training Institute, with neat courtyards. It bears witness to the history of training cadres for the peasant movement and igniting the revolutionary spark of the peasantry in southern China during the Great Revolution.

Site of the Gutian Congress

The stamp depicts the Liao Clan Ancestral Hall in Gutian, Shanghang, Fujian. Tall pines and cypresses stand before the hall. The Gutian Congress was held here, establishing the principles of building the Party ideologically and the army politically, and laying the foundation for the political work of the people’s army.

Zaoyuan, Yan’an

The stamp shows the cave dwellings and compound of Zaoyuan in Yan’an. This was the former residence of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee, an important place where the Party Central Committee directed revolutionary work during the Yan’an period.

Tiananmen

The stamp presents Tiananmen Gate in Beijing with red flags flying high. It marks the birth of New China and symbolises the great victory of the New Democratic Revolution.

Ciping, Jinggangshan

The stamp depicts Ciping embraced by mountains. Ciping was the core area of the Jinggangshan Revolutionary Base Area, a vital base for the armed separatist regime of workers and peasants.

Yan’an

The composition features Baota Hill, the Yan River and cave dwellings forming a panoramic view of Yan’an, with red flags dotted among the mountains. It is the classic image of the revolutionary sacred site, representing the years when the Party Central Committee led revolutionary struggles in northern Shaanxi.

Shaoshan

The stamp shows the Former Residence of Comrade Mao Zedong nestled among mountains, surrounded by green bamboos and pines. It is the hometown of Comrade Mao Zedong and the starting point where revolutionary ideas germinated.

Site of the Zunyi Congress

The stamp centres on the two-storey building in the old town of Zunyi. Many visitors come to the site to study revolutionary traditions. The Zunyi Congress held here saved the Party, the Red Army and the Chinese revolution at a critical moment.

Main Peak of Jinggangshan

The stamp portrays the magnificent Wuzhi Peak of Jinggangshan, with rolling and imposing mountain ridges. It symbolises that the revolutionary base stands firm and that a single spark can start a prairie fire.

Great Hall of the People

The stamp shows the exterior of the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, solemn and grand. It hosts major meetings of the Party and the state and witnesses the progress of socialist construction in New China.

Artistic Features of the Design

The whole set adopts a realistic and soft style, with landscape-style compositions presenting the appearance of each memorial site. Higher-value stamps use combined photogravure and engraved recess printing for clear, substantial lines. Each stamp has a distinct tone; backgrounds of red, green and cyan set off the atmosphere of different sacred sites. Arranged in the chronological order of revolutionary development, the eleven stamps trace the key course of the Chinese revolution. It is a classic regular stamp series on revolutionary sacred sites from the 1970s.