Zhongxin Jingwei client, February 5, 2022 Learned from the State Post Bureau that after the approval of the State Post Bureau, China Post is scheduled to issue a set of 2 commemorative stamps for the "Opening Commemoration of the 24th Winter Olympic Games" on February 4, 2022, with the stamp design name of The Common Future and the Light of Hope. The full set of stamps has a face value of $2.40. The number of stamps planned to be issued is 11.5 million sets.
Image source: State Post Bureau website
According to reports, the 24th Winter Olympic Games will be held in Beijing and Zhangjiakou from February 4 to February 20, 2022. This is the third Olympic event held by China after the Beijing Olympic Games and the Nanjing Youth Olympic Games. Beijing also became the first "city of two Olympics" in Olympic history to host summer and winter Olympic Games. Since 2017, China Post has issued 5 sets of 18 sets of commemorative stamps for the Theme of the Winter Olympics, 2 sets of 1 set of stamps for personalized services, and 3 sets of ordinary postage covers.
It is reported that the set of stamps was designed by Wang Huming, and the overall use of white and blue colors highlights the concept of ice and snow events. The stamp screen transforms the rich and dynamic audiovisual language of the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games into a flat language, and through the deconstruction and reorganization of three-dimensional space and time span, the classic elements of the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games are presented in a two-dimensional plane, reflecting the design concept of instant and eternity. The overall picture is simple and exquisite, showing an ethereal, elegant and modern design sense, which is in line with the concept of the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games.
According to reports, the set of stamps is printed by the offset printing process of Henan Post and Telecommunications Technology Co., Ltd., focusing on the ice and snow elements with the characteristics of the Winter Olympics. "Common to the Future" with holographic cat's eye plus laser relief process, focusing on the three-dimensional Winter Olympic emblem, "Light of Hope" to position the holographic cold hot combination of a variety of processes, focusing on the three-dimensional snowflake table and beating flames. Under the illumination of the light source, the stamp picture is rich and flexible, colorful streamers, modern sense, sense of science and technology jump above the square inch.
It is understood that the set of stamps will be sold on February 4 at designated postal outlets, philatelic network halls, China Post mobile phone clients, China Post WeChat WeChat Mall of China Post WePufels and China Post Mall, with a sales period of 6 months. Among them, the sales of outlets on February 4 were carried out through online channels such as the Philatelic Network Hall, and offline channel sales were not carried out on that day. In order to display the stamp content more abundantly, China Post will release digital content through the "China Philatelic Stamp Encyclopedia" WeChat Mini Program, which can be viewed using ar function. (Zhongxin Jingwei APP)