Officials from the
Organizing Committee for the Beijing Olympic Games, the China
Central Academy of Fine Arts and the China National Philatelic
Corporation unveiled the set of stamps on Tuesday, December 25,
2007 in Beijing.
The Organizing Committee for the Beijing Olympic Games (BOCOG)
authorized the China Central Academy of Fine Arts to design a set
of stamps combining twelve Chinese animal signs and the Olympic
Games. Designers combined each letter of "Olympic Games" with 12
animals of Chinese Zodiac. There are a stamp book and an
introduction book for the newly issued stamps.
The introduction book for
the newly issued Olympic animal stamps is unveiled on Tuesday,
December 25, 2007.
(CRI.cn December 26, 2007)
