There is such a country, it is vast, beautiful mountains and rivers, with the ultimate natural landscape, but it is not connected to each other.
There is such a country, which is vast from north to south, from east to west, with abundant natural resources, but unevenly distributed.
There is such a country, it has a long history, extraordinary ambitions, countless ancestors experience, but it has experienced vicissitudes.
Needless to say, you must have guessed that this is China.
Zhuoer Mountain Scenic Area, Qilian County, Qinghai, photographer @ Zuo Xuelan
But obviously, this is not the China it is now.
Today's China still has the ultimate landscape, but the lofty mountains, rivers, lakes and seas in the railways, roads, bridges, tunnels, ports, in a variety of infrastructure connecting the whole country, by the graben to change the way.
The Enshi section of the Shanghai-Chongqing Expressway in Hubei Province
Photography @ Wenlin Planet Institute
Guiguang high-speed train passed through Yangshuo Landscape Photography @ Huang Yijun Planet Research Institute
At present, China still has rich natural resources, but the sleeping mountains and silent rivers have gradually awakened under the various unprecedented super projects of south-to-north water diversion, west-to-east gas transmission, west-to-east power transmission, and various unprecedented super projects.
Cartography @ Jing Zhang & Jingyi Chen Planet Research Institute
In today's China, there are still countless ancestors who have taken the lead, but land greening, smog control, national parks, flood control dams, rockets, spaceships, Beidou satellites... Miracles that we did not envision succeeded and continued in this land.
The "Long March 2 F" carrier rocket carried the "Shenzhou V" spacecraft to take off
Photo @ Nam Yong Planet Research Institute
And the time of the above changes is only a hundred years.
In this ancient and vivid country, the rapid changes are dizzying, so that Guan Dong Boil once thought that the current good life was taken for granted.
Until Guan Dong boiled to read this set of books "Here is China".
It is called the "National Geography Book".
The first 30,000 copies were printed, and in just over a month, they were reprinted 10 times and nearly 400,000 copies were allocated. Won the "Wenjin Book Award" and "China Good Book" and other reputations.
Its birth is extremely authoritative.
It is jointly produced by the Planet Research Institute, the All-China Youth Federation, the People's Cultural Tourism, and the China Society of Surveying and Mapping. The style is professional and extreme, and every photograph is a blockbuster.
Nanga Bawa Peak Photography @ Zhang Yang Xiaoqiang Planet Research Institute
Dadu River Sichuan Luding section Photo @ Cao Tie Planet Research Institute
From the perspective of geography and popular science, it restores the appearance of little-known China and records the rise of China that we have not personally experienced.
Old readers should be familiar with these two books, as early as the time of release, we chose to put on the shelves for the first time, in my opinion, these two books even if they are described as "magnificent", it is no exaggeration.
If you're interested in The Geography and Rise of China, I highly recommend starting with one.
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However, today, Guandong cooks not this set of books recommended to everyone.
Instead, it is based on the book "Here is China" as the context, a set of collection value and commemorative significance - "Here is China" stamp collection book.
In terms of collection value:
The entire set of stamp albums contains a total of 94 classic stamps, all issued by China Post, and sorted out by China Post Cultural Creation, with absolute fidelity.
The contents of the stamps are the symbols that can best witness the development of the mainland in the past century.
It is composed of four major themes: connection, reorganization, home, and dreams.
In addition to ordinary stamps, the "Here is China" stamp collection also contains "JT stamps and "special" stamps".
JT stamps
The "J" prefix commemorative stamp and the "T" prefix special stamp refer to stamps issued in 1974-1991.
A total of 185 sets of J tickets were issued, and a total of 168 sets of T tickets were issued. The "JT" mark has been inactive since 1992, and the original "Chinese Min post" on the stamp has also become "China Post".
In this regard, JT stamps not only have a political and cultural role, but also represent a precious history in The issuance of Chinese stamps.
Its rarity and non-renewability have created its considerable collection value.
Stamps with the word "Special"
Since 2000, stamps issued annually for major events outside the plan have been stamps with the word "special".
In order of special 1st and year numbers, from 2000 to August 2021, a total of 11 sets of "special" stamps have been issued.
"Special" stamps are one of the stamp collection categories with very collectible value and very special themes, and due to the small circulation, each edition in the future has the potential to become the next monkey stamp.
Rare things are precious, the collection industry pays special attention to "rarity", JT stamps and "special" stamps are the stamp categories that philatelic enthusiasts attach the most importance to, and friends who like it should not miss it.
In a commemorative sense:
If I had to use one sentence to describe this set of stamps, it would be that "the great beauty of the rivers and mountains and the great power projects are all presented in this square inch of the stamps.".
Re-understanding China through stamps, rediscovering the beauty of China, and discovering the changes in China over the past hundred years is an issue that is too large, and Guandong Cooking originally did not have too high expectations for it.
But when I opened this stamp album, I saw the commemorative stamp connecting the 65th anniversary of the completion of the Sichuan-Tibet-Qinghai-Tibet Highway under the theme of connection.
You will instantly think of the engineering miracles that have overcome the cold climate, thin air, and complex geology to establish a "connection with the sky" on the plateau.
It is these "heavenly" roads that have allowed Tibet to bid farewell to the era of hunchback and horseback, and to closely connect Tibet with all parts of the country.
The highway of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, photographer @ mountain wind
See the homeland theme under the yellow river water conservancy and hydropower project stamps.
You will instantly think of the game with great rivers in the history of Chinese civilization for thousands of years.
These water conservancy projects, like fearless warriors, sit majestically among the mountains and rivers, guarding the homeland on which we depend.
Yangzhou Jiangdu water conservancy hub, picture source @VCG
For more than 100 years, China's energy, minerals, and water resources have been mobilized and reorganized on a large scale, super-large cities have formed new "mountains", vertical and horizontal road networks have formed new "rivers", green mountains and green waters have gradually recovered, and the road to looking up at the stars is also constantly striving...
The mountains and rivers have changed in a hundred years, but most of us may not have had the opportunity to witness it, and all of this can be felt by this stamp album.
Coinciding with the great era, the "Here is China" stamp collection is a tribute work, and for the first time, it collects rare stamps in a century-old context.
The combination of books and mail belongs to the glorious collection that is rare in a hundred years.
Friends who want to collect stamps if they have a good eye in the market, it is not wrong to choose the "Here is China" stamp collection.
【Here is China】Stamp Collection
A hundred years of rare encounters The great beauty of rivers and mountains and the projects of great powers are included in them
Special price: 680 yuan