Scott No: 2782-86
Serial number: 1997-12
Values in set: 5
Date of issue: August 1,1997
Designers: Ji Hongmin; Yao Bin;
Luo Genxing; Li Xian
Size: 50*30mm
Perforation: 12
Sheet composition: 40
Printing process: offset

On July 1, 1927, the Communist Party of China mobilized and led the Nanchang Uprising, firing the first shot in the armed rebellion against the Kuomintang reactionaries. This great historic event marked the birth of a revolutionary army under the leadership of the Communist Party of China which shouldered the historic mission of independently leading the armed struggle. Later, the Communist Party of China organized and led a series of armed uprisings such as the Autumn Harvest Uprising and the Guangzhou Uprising. A new-type of people's army unprecedented in the Chinese history was born and grew in the fighting.

The new people's army fought bloody wars, undertook the untold 25,000-li Long March, and the entire world was shocked by its brave deed. At a historic moment when the fate of the nation was in peril, the people's army became the main force in fighting against the Japanese invaders. When China faced a choice of fate and future, the people's army fought bravely and eliminated 8 million army of the reactionary Kuomintang, and ushered in the founding of New China.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the people's army has defended the nation's independence, sovereignty and dignity, and forcefully defended the world peace. In many construction projects key to the national economy, the people's army has also played an important role. When the properties of the State and the safety of the people were menaced by serious natural calamities, the people's army were always there at the forefront in the relief efforts.

In the new historic era, in line with the theories of Deng Xiaoping on the building of the army in the new era and important instructions given by President Jiang Zemin on army building, the people's army will follow the road of army building with Chinese characteristics, and march forward for the building of a revolutionized modernized and standardized army.