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Issue Date / Set Description Item Description
1 December 1953 - Medieval Science Compass
Seismoscope
Drum Cart
Armillary Sphere
30 December 1953 - Famous People Francois Rabelais
Jose Marti
Chu Yuan
Nicolaus Copernicus
25 August 1955 - Scientists Chang Heng
Chang Heng (mini-sheet)
Tsu Chung-chih
Tsu Chung-chih (mini-sheet)
I-Hsing
I-Hsing (mini-sheet)
Li Shih-chen
Li Shih-chen (mini-sheet)
25 June 1958 - First Chinese Planetarium Planetarium
Telescope / Stars
25 August 1958 - Meteorology Weather Vane
Weather Balloon
Tower / Map
30 October 1958 - Early Sputniks Sputnik / Armillary Sphere
Sputnuk 3
Sputnik 1 / 2 / 3
1 July 1959 - Quadragennial of Student Uprising Students (one holds a model rocket) / Flags
Workers / Banners
10 September 1959 - Luna 1 Rocket / Orbits
20 January 1960 - Agricultural Exhibition Pavilion
Metrorology
Animals
Fish
10 March 1960 - Decennial of Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship Workers (rocket launch in background)
Flags
Soldiers
30 April 1960 - Luna 2 / 3 Moon / Soviet Symbols
Luna 3
25 April 1977 - Industry Conference Worker
Oil Drilling
Crowd / Banner
Rocket Launch
18 March 1978 - National Science Conference Insignia
Banners
Atom / Globe
souvenir sheet of 3
25 April 1978 - Meteorology Weather Balloon
Radar Station
Weather Maps
Weather Observers
Rockets
1 August 1978 - 6th Company Iron-Fisted Policies
Revolutionary Tradition
Military Training
8 September 1978 - 4th National Women’s Congress Women / Atom / Rocket / Grain
11 October 1978 - 9th National Union Trade Congress Flag / Wheat / Cog / Rocket
16 October 1978 - Decennial National Communist Youth League Conference Insignia / Book / Atom / Rocket
4 May 1979 - Sexagennial of May 4th Revolution Bas Releif
Woman / Rocket / Satellite Dish
1 October 1979 - Various Themes Agriculture
Machinery
Military (rocket)
Atomic Energy
3 October 1979 - Young Scientists Child / Model Planes
Child / Microscope
Child / Telescope
Child / Butterflies
Child / Meteorology
Child / Model Boat
Child / Book
15 March 1980 - 2nd National Conference of the Scientific And Technical Association of China Technology Symbols
17 May 1981 - World Telecommunications Day ITU Insignia
16 May 1982 - Planetary Alignment Solar System
25 July 1982 - 2nd United Nations Conference On Peaceful Uses of Outer Space Globe / Insignia
28 April 1983 - World Communications Year WCY Insignia
8 March 1985 - United Nations Decade For Women Venus Symbol
1 February 1986 - National Space Industry Satellite
Satellite Recovery
Submarine Launch
Launch
Satellite Dish
Trajectory
11 April 1986 - Halley’s Comet Comet
4 August 1989 - Asia-Pacific Telecommunity Insignia
15 November 1989 - Rockets Transport
Rocket On Transport
Launch
Staging
10 October 1990 - Scientists Lin Oiaozhi
Zhang Yuzhe
Hou Debang
Ding Ying
18 August 1992 - International Space Year Arrow / Galaxy
1 September 1995 - Tibetan Relics Jar
Casque
Celestial Chart
Mandala
7 October 1996 - Satellite Launch Ascending Rocket
Satellite In Orbit
1 August 1997 - Chinese People’s Liberation Army Army
Navy
Air Force
Missiles
Military Manoevers
10 December 1997 - Telecommunications Satellite / Digital Signal / Satellite Dish
Computer / Data
Signal Reception / Landmarks
Cell Phone / Man’s Head
1 November 1999 - Scientific & Technological Achievements Fossil
Underwater Robot
Pair
Goldbach Conjecture
Observatory Telescope
pair
31 December 1999 - Review of the Nineteenth Century Revolution of 1911
May 4th Movement
Communist Party
War of Resistance Against Japan
A New China
Rocketry (#2248)
Reform
Return of Hong Kong & Macao
20 November 2000 - Shenzhou Test Flight pair
Launch
In Orbit
sheetlet of 12
22 November 2000 - Fruits of Meteorology Weather Satellite
Tibetan Weather
Digital Forecasting
Artificial Rainfall
20 August 2002 - Ancient Chinese Scientists IV Bian Que
Liu Hui
Su Song (responsible for water-driven astronomical clock)
Song Yingxing
21 June 2003 - Jilin Meteorite Impact Trajectory
Fragments Descending
Meteorite
souvenir sheet of 9 (3 of each design)
16 October 2003 - Shenzhou 5 pair
Yang Liweh / Spacecraft In Orbit
Saluting Chinese Flag
souvenir sheet of 2
booklet of souvenir sheets (1 each of China / Hong Kong / Macau)
sheetlet of 10 (5 x each design)
8 June 2006 - Semicentennial of the Chinese Space Program Add this issue to your shopping cart pair
Geospace Double Star Exploration Program
Shenzhou 6
26 November 2007 - Chang'e 1 Lunar Probe Probe / Moon