The Common Program of the People's Republic of China 1949-1954

Stamps & Banknotes

1949 1st Plenary Session of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
1949 Trade Union Conference of Asian And Australasian Countries
1949 Worker Soldier Peasant. Central China
1949 PLA enters Hankou. Central China
1949 Wuchang. Central China
1949 Hanyang. Central China
1949 Central and South China
1949 East China
1949 East China 1949 Liberated Nanjing
1949 Steam train. East China
1949 Victory Huai Hai campaign. East China
1949 Liberation of Nanjing and Shanghai. East China
1949 South China 1949 Liberation of Guangzhou
1949 Mao Zedong and Zhu De. Southwest and East China
1949 Soldiers. North China
1949 Workers. North China
1949 North China
1949 North China
1949 28th anniversary of the CCP. North China
1949 28th anniversary of the CCP. Northeast China
1949 Labour Day. Northeast China
1949 Production. Northeast China
1949 Production. Northeast China
1949 Production. Northeast China
1949 Production. Northeast China
1949 Production. Northeast China
1949 Mao Zedong. Northeast China
1949 The Great Wall. Northwest China
1949 Liberation of Guangzhou. South China

1950 Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
1950 Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
1950 Gate of Heavenly Peace
1950 1 Anniv. Establishment People's Government on 1 October, 1949
1950 Defend World Peace
1950 First year People's Republic of China
1950 First national Post conference
1950 Signing of Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Alliance and Mutual Assistance
1950 Mao Zedong
1950 2nd CPPCC meeting. Northeast China
1950 Beijing People's Conference. Northeast China
1950 Liberation of Southwest. Southwest China
1950

1951 30th Anniv. of Conmmunist Party of China
1951 Defend World Peace
1951 Remittance Stamp of China-overprints
1951 National emblem
1951 15th Anniv. of Death of Lu Xun
1951 Rebellion of the Peasants
1951 Rebellion of the Peasants
1951 Tian Anmen

1952 Land reform
1952 Liberation of Tibet
1952 Liberation of Tibet
1952 International Children conference
1952 Labour Day
1952 Labour Day
1952 Labour Day
1952 Radio gymnastics
1952 Radio gymnastics
1952 Radio gymnastics
1952 Radio gymnastics
1952 Radio gymnastics
1952 Radio gymnastics
1952 Radio gymnastics
1952 Radio gymnastics
1952 Radio gymnastics
1952 Radio gymnastics
1952 Radio gymnastics
1952 Radio gymnastics
1952 Radio gymnastics
1952 Radio gymnastics
1952 Radio gymnastics
1952 Radio gymnastics
1952 Radio gymnastics
1952 Dunhuang Mural Art
1952 Dunhuang Mural Art
1952 Dunhuang Mural Art
1952 Dunhuang Mural Art
1952 Chinese-Japanese war
1952 Chinese-Japanese war
1952 Chinese-Japanese war
1952 Chinese-Japanese war
1952 25th year People's Liberation Army
1952 25th year People's Liberation Army
1952 25th year People's Liberation Army
1952 25th year People's Liberation Army
1952 Huai River barrage
1952 Chongqing-Chengdu railway viaduct
1952 Oil refinery
1952 Agricultural machinery
1952 Freedom conference
1952 Freedom conference
1952 Military aid for Korea
1952 Military aid for Korea
1952 Military aid for Korea
1952 Military aid for Korea

1953 International Women's day
1953 International Women's day
1953 Labour
1953 Labour
1953 Stone Lion
1953 Labour
1953 Labour
1953 Imperial palace
1953 Karl Marx
1953 7th All-China Trade Union Congress
1953 Defend World Peace
1953 Glorious motherland
1953 Glorious motherland
1953 Glorious motherland
1953 Glorious motherland
1953 35th Anniv. of Great October Revolution
1953 35th Anniv. of Great October Revolution
1953 35th Anniv. of Great October Revolution
1953 35th Anniv. of Great October Revolution
1953 Glorious motherland
1953 Glorious motherland
1953 Glorious motherland
1953 Glorious motherland
1953 Personalities Rabelais
1953 Personalities Jose Marti
1953 Personalities Qu Yuan
1953 Personalities Copernicus

1954 Industry
1954 Industry
1954 Industry
1954 Industry
1954 Industry
1954 Industry
1954 Industry
1954 Industry
1954 Lenin
1954 Lenin
1954 Lenin
1954 Glorious motherland
1954 Glorious motherland
1954 Glorious motherland
1954 Glorious motherland
1954 Industry
1954 Industry
1954 Stalin
1954 Stalin
1954 Stalin
1954 SU exhibition hall
1954 Technics
1954 Technics
1954 Elections
1954 1st National People's Congress of PRC
1954 Constitution
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Letter from Zhou Enlai to Stalin on the possibility of printing Chinese money in SU January 22, 1952 Comrade Filippov! We intend to carry out a monetary reform in the country in 1953. Due to the lack of capacity to print new banknotes in our country, we would like to ask the Soviet government to print for us banknotes in four denominations of 5, 10, 50 and 100 yuan with a total of 466,000,000 sheets (banknotes) on Soviet paper with watermarks. Sep-Deliveries of 5- and 10-yuan banknotes totalling 450,000,000 sheets may be made during March-October 1953, and deliveries of the remaining banknotes may be completed in March 1954. If you agree, we will send dedicated personnel to Moscow with samples and a detailed plan for this work to address this issue. Please let me know your views on this matter. Zhou Enlai[↩]
Schwartz (2014). "We have here a portrait, not of a leader or a historical or legendary figure, but of two characteristic citizens—a worker and peasant idealized in their pose, albeit with individual physiognomies. In China, numismatic portraits of any sort are a recent innovation....realistic portraits of any sort are rare before the appearance of Sun Yat-sen’s portrait on Republican banknotes in 1923.5 Otherwise, landscapes, government buildings, and monuments are the usual images sharing pictorial fields on money cluttered with the ramified ornamentation and lettering of nineteenth-century steel engraving styles." Pages 9-10 [↩] [Cite]
Schwartz (2014). "Yet its demotic subject matter participates in a program depicting symmetry in agricultural and industrial production that governs the entire series and is carried through on other notes with landscapes that include factories and shepherds, weavers and irrigation procedures, trains and bridges, electrification projects, railway stations, and harrowing, threshing and fertilization scenes. On the formal side, most of these landscapes share with the worker-and-peasant two-shot a characteristically Socialist Realist deployment of heroic foreshortening and utopian out-of-frame space:... " Page 15 [↩] [Cite]
Zhengzhou Post and Telecommunications Bureau discovered counterfeit and revalued stamps. All other bureaus are advised to take note. In 1953, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications send the following message: "According to a report from the Henan Post and Telecommunications Administration, Comrade Ren Dongxu, Director of the Fourth Branch of the Zhengzhou Post and Telecommunications Bureau, observed someone bringing a revalued stamp to the bureau on May 12th to exchange for a small ticket. The revalued stamp was an olive green, Tiananmen Square stamp worth 2,000 yuan, with the words "Temporarily priced at 5,000 yuan" printed in red. The reprinting was illegible, and the spacing between the characters was uneven. Upon inquiring about the source of the stamp, the holder replied that they had purchased it in Beijing. Comrade Ren considered the matter suspicious and reported it to his superiors for investigation. He later inquired with the Beijing Bureau, who confirmed that the revalued stamp did not exist. The holder of the stamp had fled the scene. Second, the various stamps issued by this department with the Tiananmen design have not had their value altered by any additions. The aforementioned "Temporarily priced at 5,000 Yuan" stamp is indeed a counterfeit using a 2,000 Yuan stamp. All bureaus are urged to pay close attention, especially those involved in stamp sales, sorting, and ticketing. They must conduct thorough inspections at all times. If any stamps with altered Tiananmen design are discovered, the source must be investigated immediately so the counterfeiters can be apprehended." [↩]