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World of Stamps A small stamp tells us a big world! Through these beautiful stamps with unique design, we can learn more on and behind them. Society and economy, culture and development, history and future, life and love......You will find endless enlightenment. Let stamps tell you lots of stories! 风景邮票 花卉邮票 Lily (Special stamps) The lily, Lilium belonging to Liliaceae, perennial bulbiferous herbs distributed in temperate areas of the northern hemisphere. Among 115 species of the genus found in the world , 55 are endemic to China. Its underground bulb forms by many fleshy scaled imbricated closely, hence lily is called Baihe in Chinese (which means a hundred scales packed together). It is regarded as a symbol of unity and friendship. During greeting seasons, people present lily flowers to each other as gifts, expressing their wish of happiness and harmony in a family for a hundred years. Their large, gorgeous flowers are often funnelform or campanulate in shape, usually white, sometimes red, purple, pink, yellow or greenish in colour. Lily flowers have been famous and precious, but popular since ancient times for their graceful shape and elegant style. It has been chosen to be the national flower in many countries. 建筑邮票 艺术邮票 China 2003: The 16th Asia International Stamp Exhibition --- Commemorative Stamp China 2003: the 16th Asia International Stamp Exhibition is held in Mianyang, a beautiful city in Sichuan Province, from November 20 to 24, 2003, in commemoration of the 125th anniversary of the issuance of the Large Dragon stamps of China. It is a large-scale philatelic event held in China following the successful 96 Asia International Stamp Exhibition and 99 World Philatelic Exhibition. This exhibition, under the auspices of the Federation of Inter Asian Philately, has participants from more than 20 countries and regions of Asia and Oceania, and over 1,200 frames of contesting and non-contesting exhibits. The exhibition will strengthen the friendly cooperation a