Scott No: 3148-51
Serial number: 2001-25
Values in set: 4
Denomination: 5.20 yuan
Date of issue: 24th November 2001
Designer: Yang Wenqing, Yan Bingwu
Size of stamps: 30*50 mm
Perforation: 12
Sheet composition: 16
Printing process: photogravure-intaglio
Printer: Beijing Postage Stamp Printing House

The Liupanshan Mountains, also known as Longshan Mountains , strech across Gansu Province and Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, and part North Shanxi from the Central Gansu Plateau.The main peak is abut 3,000 meters above sea level, with zigzagging roads spiraling six times to the top, hence the name. With large forests and rich resources, the Liupanshan Mountains are known as a green pearl on the Loess Plateau. The area is also regarded as a "Kingdom of Animals" on a dry land for its great deversity of animals and insects. The Old Dragon Pool and the White Cloud Mountain boast marvelous, beautiful scenery of lake and mountain with characteristics of that in northern and southern China. As a place where many national groups live together, the area is endowed with a lot of historical remains as a result of thousands of years of mingling of the Nomad and Central Chinese cultures. During the Long March in 1935, the Red Army crossed the Liupanshan Mountains, and Mao Zedong composed magnificent poems about it.