Scott No: -
Serial number: 2005-17
Values in set: 1
Date of issue: August 25, 2005
Denomination: 80 fen
Designer: Wu Yong
Size of stamps: 30*40 mm
Perforation: 13*12.5
Sheet composition: 10
Size of sheet: 160*240 mm
Printing process: Offset
Printing House: Beijing Postage Stamp Printing Works

Ever since the premiere of Dingjun Mountain in 1905, the development of Chinese movies has gone through a hundred years of difficulties and hardships. Many classic movies shot during this period still glimmer with radiance. In the past century, the Chinese movies recorded the vicissitudes and enormous changes of China in the modern history in different perspectives. Generations of the Chinese people grew up with these movies, thier lives deelly influenced and affected by them. Spreading the Chinese culture around the world in a unique manner, Chinese movies are moving toward the peak of the world movie art with their great charm and fine artistic quality, to the pride of the Chinese people. The year 2005 marks the 100th anniversary of the Chinese cinema, and a new milestone in its development.